Nwoye quotes- things fall apart

didn't live up to fathers expectations

sad faced youth

what okonkwo wanted of nwoye

Okonkwo wanted Nwoye to grow into a tough young man capable of ruling his fathers household

okonkwo sees him as feminine

i have done my best to make nwoye grow into a man, but he has too much of his mother in him

disowns father

he is not my father, he was happy to leave his father, he let hold of nwoye, who walked away and never returned

similar to unoka

he loves lengend and folktales

linking folktales to context

Ibo culture predominantly oral in 19th century, proverbs, folktales and conversational rituals helped preserve and pass on important ideas

knew that liking folktales was wrong

nwoye knew that it was right to be masculine and violent, but somehow still preferred the stories his mother used to tell

finds peace with hymns

hymns poured into his parched soul

cannot handle waht?

brutality of igob customs

his attraction to new faith

nwoye had been attracted to the new faith from the very first day

convwrsion

nwoye, who was now called issac

conversion linking to context

Issac is Christian name, Achebe was converted to Albert in Ogidi in 1930