Multitudinous fathers want their sons to grow up to be just like them. But there are fathers that disown their children for following what they believe in. No Child suppose to feel like they don’t fit in or feel left out in their homes nor around their families. No child is supposed to hear their father, saying he wished they weren’t their son or saying he yearned his daughter should’ve been the son. Adequately, welcome to Nwoye’s life in Umuofia. In Chinua Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart, Nwoye’s sense of identity changed when the Western ideas appeared in the Ibo culture. Nwoye’s response was positive and courageous for going outside for what his father believed in and it shaped him as a young man that knows what he is striving for.
To begin with, Nwoye is struggling arduously to find his identity. With his father trying to convince him into becoming like his self, Nwoye gets confused on what is best for him. “Nothing pleased Nwoye now more than to be sent for by his mother or another of his father 's wives to do one of those
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As can be seen, Nwoye was a child that his father didn’t want. That didn’t stop Nwoye from accomplishing his achievements and becoming someone that isn’t only famous around the village from “throwing the cat.”(28) Nwoye was like his grandfather. He had feelings about people and wasn’t cold-blooded like his father Okonkwo. Nwoye had a heart that was breaking slowly before he came across the missionaries in the Evil Forest. Those missionaries saved Nwoye. They helped him become a new man. Now, the question is still unanswered, Who is Nwoye? Nwoye is a young man that came from a home with his father being famous and pressuring Nwoye to become like him. Nwoye is a man that knew his father killed his best friend. Nwoye is a man that got saved by the missionaries and turned his life around for the better. Nwoye is not his name anymore. His name is Isaac and he was greatly influenced by the Western ideas that conflicted in the Ibo