Things+Fall+Apart

My quesion is "who is okonkwo, is he a leader of is tribe or just someone that they look uo to?" and "do you think that Africa has the same culture as the did in the book or things have changed now?" Also i understand that if you dont have a title in the village that people look down on you as a women or lower, but do you think that Okonkwo had a right to say what he said on page 26 or do you think that its true what he is saying??? -shan

My question is: In africa, within certain villages and tribes, etc. do men have the right to beat their women. For example Okonkwo beat his wife Ikemefuna and she ended up saying sumthing about guns not working. Then all of a sudden he just shot her with no remorse at all. -Mark Roman

__Facts-__ Okonkwo is the famous and respected man in his village. He was the one who "had brought honor to his village by throwing Amalinze the Cat" (pg.3). Okonkwo is a man of very little patience whos anger controls him. If anything gets him angry he will react and not in a nice way. During "week of peace" (pg.29) in his village he showed his anger forgetting that it was week of peace. He beat up his youngest wife. Okonkwo has more than one wife and kids with each of them.

__Question-__ I dont understand what is the significance of the kola nut. After he had beat up his wife during week of peace, the priest of the earth goddes, Ani came to speak to him. "Okonkwo brought out kola nut and placed it before the priest"(pg.30) Why did Okonkwo try to give the priest a kola nut? Is it a custom, or a sign of respect?

-NATALIE A-

-Nigeria is located above the west coast of africa. -There are more than 200 ethnic groups, that speak different languages and have different beliefs. -this book takes place in the 19th century, and the early 20th century -Why are their so many religons their? -why did they decide to go back and fourth with the language use. -What are the main religions? -the tribe okonkwo is from is igbo -1960 Nigeria got their independence -one of the first African novels written in English to receive global critical acclaim (from-[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Things_Fall_Apart)] -Why does this culture expect you to have so many wives? -why is ikemefuna killed? - why did the author decide to write in this culture, where it is harder to understand?
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Facts- -Before colonization ,european people to going to Africa to moderiaze and civilize__.__ -He is trying to do colonial period. -Ikumefuna stays with Okonkwo's family for three years.

__Questions-__ //-What is the relationship between Ikumfuna and Okonkow?// //-Is this Okonkwo's father was embarrased that he was so lazy person? -What is the Author is trying to say about the religion and culture of Nigeria?

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Questions: IF Unoka was such a failure, wouldn't it just be natural for him to raise Okonkwo the same way? Did the village raise Okonkwo? What influenced him to feel the way he does about his father. How did he grow so superior? Is it important only to Okwonkwo to grow strong in society, or is it essential to everyone else? Is the culture of Nigeria a little overexagerated, or is this how things really were/are? -Elyssa

Questions: -Why Okonkwo had been a fear in his life? -Is this Okonkwo felt happy when his father (Unoka) died? -AMNA A

there was a part in the story when one of the babies of Ekwefi died and they threw it out in the forest. But what about the twins. Who was the one that had the twins? Were they also thrown out in the forest? -Natalie A

--Okonkwo is known for being a man of war, but is this a goood thing or bad thing when the white people come?? --why exactlly does Chielo, the priestess of Agbala, want to take Ezinma to the Oracle?? What for?? i read the chapter but i just dont see why they took her, because nothing change or came from her going to the Oracle. --And was Chielo is a regular person and some kind of spirit or something? --Why did the white people arrest all the leaders and whay did they treat them like that?? --Why do you think Okonkwo kill himself?? i think he killed himself because he didnt want to be killed by the white people(enemies to him) and he didnt want to live under these people anymore. SHANDISE

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answer to shan's question: I Believe that the white people arrested all of the leaders because they were sent to. As well as like they felt that if the people of the tribes kept on supporting their spiritual leaders that they could never get through to what the white people wanted them to do. Simply put they tried to force them to leave their religion and look to the government. The white people also took the leaders because they felt fear that the leaders were planning to rebel against the government and everything.

-mark

my answer to natalie A question:"I dont understand what is the significance of the kola nut. After he had beat up his wife during week of peace, the priest of the earth goddes, Ani came to speak to him. "Okonkwo brought out kola nut and placed it before the priest"(pg.30) Why did Okonkwo try to give the priest a kola nut? Is it a custom, or a sign of respect?"

Well throughout the book the Kola Nut has always had some sign. It has always showed up in one way or another. As for him giving it to the priest it was a sign of basically saying that he had respect and i offer him something to eat. Then that would have invited the priest to be ready to listn to stuff i guess.

-mark

QUESTIONS Why did the Chinua decide to use his natve language, and not put te glossary in the back?(glossary was done by editors) why is the culture very tradtional, with alot of depth and percision? why does fear dominate Oknows life? I dont understand the full meaning of Chi? Does things like this still happen today? what happens when they move to the U.S where these things are not allowed here, do they change or are they still demanding?

-GIOVANNA

Why is Okonkwo a man of war? Why can't he control himself during the Week of Peace? Why doesn't he pay full attention to what the priest says about the Earth Goddess? Why doesn't he stick to his custom of the village as the priest does? All this is unclear as of now?

Yasin Chowdhury