"They agrees and were already retiring, when Enoch boasted aloud that they would not dare touch a Christian. Whereupon they all came back and one of them gave Enoch a good stroke of the cane, which was always carried. Enoch fell on him and tore off his mask. The other egwugwu immediately surrounded their desecrated companion, to shield him from the profane gaze of women and children, and led him away. Enoch had killed an ancestral spirit, and Umuofia was thrown into confusion" (Achebe 186).
In this part of the novel the annual worship of the earth goddess is happening in the village of Umuofia and this worship happened to be on a Sunday. This angered one of the converts Enoch who has become extremely devoted to his new Christian religion and he does one of the worst things imaginable, he removes the mask from one of the egwugwu which kills the sacred spirit. Imperialism is encouraged through Enoch's patriotism towards his new found beliefs with the Christian religion. Enoch shows his patriotism when he courageously turns against everything he has known and he does the one thing he has known is wrong which is to take the mask off one of the egwugwu spirits believes that they are disrespecting his new Christian religion by touching a Christian. When Enoch the whole village of Umuofia is in total shock to what Enoch did because it showed that he has abandoned his beliefs and the lengthens he would go to show his patriotism to the Christian religion the white man brought to Umuofia.
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