Journals

Date: 6 August 2008

Entry #16

Page #78

Reflection:

During my reading, i came across a portion of the story about one of Okonkwo's wives named, Ekwefi. She is a very unlucky and unhappy woman. She is under a conspiracy where she gives birth to children, and then when they die, she gives birth to them again and again and again. This is sort of sad for her. She goes through so much pain and then she can never keep a child for more than a year. But she is also to at least have one child that is about 7 years old. I feel so bad for Ekwefi.


Page #81

Reflection:

This conspiracy just keeps getting more and more weird by the page. It now says that when these children are first born, they have a stone. They must bury this stone in a secret place in order to keep being reborn. But if this stone is found and destroyed before they die, they will only be able to live for that one life. This is just so weird. Now the religions we have, you would not here anything like this. Well I just love these different events that i find in this novel.