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Understanding Okonkwo and Nwoye in Achebe?s Things Fall Apart  


Two passages from the story Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, provide the reader with a more profound understanding of Okonkwo, and his son Nwoye.  The two do not have a good relationship and it becomes worse as the story progresses.   Throughout the book the two become increasingly distant and it is apparent that Okonkwo is very disappointed in his son.  After the death of Ikemefuna, Nwoye begins to question many aspects of his life, especially religion.  As the Christian missionaries spend more time with the members of the village, Nwoye becomes interested in this new religion.  The first passage I have chosen discusses Nwoye?s feelings about Christianity.

 ?But there was a young lad who had been captivated.  His name was Nwoye,  Okonkwo?s first son.  It was not the mad logic of the Trinity that captivated him.   He did not understand it.  It was the poetry of the new religion, something felt in  the marrow.  The hymn about brothers who sat in the darkness and in fear seemed  to answer a vague and persis... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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