Thursday, January 24, 2008
Things Fall Apart Chapter 2
Okonkwo was laying in bed when he hears the town crier yelling about a town meeting in the morning. Okonkwo wonders what it could be about. He finds out that a girl from their village has been murdered by another village. The other village has a choice either to hand over a virgin and a young boy or to go to war. Okonkwo is privaleged enough to be the messenger to the nieghboring village. The village decides to send a girl and a boy instead of going to war. The boy's name is Ikemefuna. He ends up staying with Okonkwo and his family for three years. The chapter also talks about hwo strict Okonkwo is and how hard of a worker he is. He also beats his son because he thinks he is weak. Ikemefuna was very afraid and didn't know what was going to happen to him. It ends there. I wonder what is going to happen to Ikemefuna.
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You'll be surpised what happend to Ikemefuna. That's all I am going to say haha.
Well, I think that Okonkwo is self centered, from what I've read so far. I think you'll learn this too once you get farther on in the book. It actually kind of gets annoying. Well I'm not telling any more about it.
I thought that their way of deciding if they would go to war was very odd. But I guess that it beats having many people killed in an all out war.
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