In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "Half of a Yellow Sun," the author spends most of the time discussing the Biafra war and the way war and violence changed characters nature. The book begins when Ugwu, an Igbo boy from a bush village, goes to Nsukka to work as a houseboy for Odenigbo, a professor and radical. Odenigbo is in love with Olanna, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy Nigerian. The narrative jumps a few years ahead, when the Nigerian government is overthrown. The Northern Hausa blame the Igbo for the coup. There is then another coup, and this time many Igbo soldiers are killed. This novel reveals love that can endure suffering and injustice and violence that caused the Biafra War by showing the romantic relationships between Olanna and Odenigbo, Kainene and Richard, and Ugwu’s obsession with Eberechi. The love between Ugwu and Eberechi starts as an immature love without any strength, and gets destroyed as the result of war. At the beginning Ugwu starts as a brilliant boy who is a quick learner and excels at school and becomes an excellent cook. As the narration continues, the war forces Ugwu to move from place to place with Odenigbo, Olanna and Baby. Ugwu becomes a teacher who teaches in Olanna’s yard. Ugwu finally gets a chance to meet Eberechi, he starts having a relationship with a girl that is something other than sexual, and he is surprised by how easy it can be when he treats Eberechi like a real person. As the narrator states, “She was impressed. When he saw her standing by her house and watching him teach, he would raise his voice and pronounce his words more carefully. She began to come over after classes.”(368), which shows how she appreciate him and the respond he gave back by doing little acts like raising his voice. This shows he is becoming an adult and he knows how to treat a girl or to impress her. When Ugwu came back from his recovery he wanted to find the girl who he loved but finds out the she moved with