In the novel, “Things Fall Apart,” by Chinua Achebe he examines the reactions of many character’s responses to the two cultures collision. Nwoye, the son of Okonkwo, reacted to the colonization in his own way. Mainly by accepting the new religion the English brought with them. Nwoye was already a broken sprit before they came to his village because his father had to kill his best friend. Achebe used Nwoye and a lot of other minor characters to show numerous possibilities people will do if something new happens that will ultimately destroy your original way of life but the people of the villages didn’t know what the white people were going to do. When the collision happens Nwoye was intrigued right away, he had a lose sense of identity before the Europeans arrived. He responded to the collision by joining them and this shapes the work by making the intensity of colonization known.
Nwoye’s identity was loose at best and he had a weak sense of identity. When Nwoye’s best friend, Ikemefuna was killed he was incredibly upset. They thought of each other like brothers instead of friends. But Nwoye was a disappointment to his father, who despised laziness and showing weakness to…show more content… When the white men first came Nwoye and his family was banished because Okonkwo accidentally killed a boy. Nwoye would walk past the church numerous times but he’d never enter because of his father. Nwoye knew how his father would react if Nwoye was found out or told Okonkwo that he’s intrigued. “Although Nwoye had been attracted to the new faith from the first day, he kept it secret (149).” He is also afraid of his dad ever since he came back from killing Ikemefuna so Nwoye not telling his family of his interest in Christianity started right after his father came back. Because at that moment he was scared of his father and hated the tribe’s laws. The author’s reason for making a major character turn is to show how colonization ruined