What Is Nwoye's Sense Of Identity In Things Fall Apart

All families have different beliefs, sometimes one person in that family even has a different belief than someone else in the family or the whole family. In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, Nwoye was that one person in his family. Many times contradicting beliefs in a family cause unhealthy relationships and tragedy. In Things Fall Apart Nwoye and Okonkwo have very different beliefs on multiple things. Nwoye’s struggle through life eventually helps illustrate the positive effects change can have on individuals. Nwoye’s sense of identity was challenged with the introduction of Western ideas into the Ibo culture. Nwoye started out in the novel as unsure and misunderstood by his father, but the cultural collision of the British colonists and Ibo people affected Nwoye to the point of changing his religion

Kiaga told Nwoye about the school for teaching young Christians how o read and write and Nwoye was interested. He also was eager to learn more about the new religion do he could bring back all the new information he learned to his mother and siblings. ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­We see evidence from the text after the scene in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart when Okonkwo grabs Nwoye by the neck and Nwoye runs off to talk to Mr. Kiaga. “He went back to the church and told Mr. Kiaga that he had decided to go to Umuofia where the white missionary had set up a school to teach young Christians to read and write.” (114) Evidence showing that Nwoye wants to eventually bring back his new information is when it says, “He would return later to his mother and brothers and sisters and convert them to the new faith.”(114) These quote explain how Nwoye decides he wants to go to school at the school Mr. Kiaga had talked about even though it was a Christian school that was against his Ibo culture. He wanted to come back and give everyone new information about