Amikwu, one of Okonkwo’s relatives, notices Nwoye in the market among the Christians. He then goes to tell Okonkwo what he had seen. When Nwoye finally comes home, Okonkwo brutally grabs a hold and starts to choke the boy. The woman outside are too scared to go inside and they are screaming at this point. Uchendu then comes inside and demands for Nwoye to be let go of and left alone. Okonkwo stops and Nwoye leaves his father and family forever, telling Mr. Kiaga that he would like to be taken to Umuofia so he can learn how to read and write at the missionary school. After Nwoye told him that, he says "Blessed is he who forsakes his father and his mother for my sake.” “Those that hear my words are my father and my mother.” Nwoye also planned