Journals

Date: 5 August 2008

Entry #15

Page #73

Reflection:

During my reading in the novel, Things Fall Apart, the characters talk about going in the jungle and "tapping" palm trees. I did not understand this at all. The author had repeatedly used this term and i was continuing to be confused. But then on this page, the young boy talks about "tapping" the palm tree. He says that the men climb the tree and bring down and smash the foo-foo. Foo-foo is a type of fruit from the tree. This is kind of pointless to the story, yet this caught my attention.


Page #75

Reflection:

This was a pointless part of the novel. A mosquito was going on a boys ear and a man told the boy the story of the mosquito. The mosquito asked the ear if she wanted to marry him and the ear just laughed and the mosquito was humiliated. Theat is why from then on that the mosquito always attacks a person's ear. This is so poinless, but this was a cute story that is amuzing and interesting. I like these types of things and thats why i write about it.