Journals

Date: 6 August 2008

Entry #34

Page #173

Reflection:

Previously in the novel, Things Fall Apart, the protagonist, Okonkwo, made a claim that he wishes that his only daughter, Ezinma, were a boy. He said this because she was wiser and smater than any of his sons. But now he regrets this. He has grown alot of sympathy for her because she is getting older. Many men have come to offer to marry her yet he refuses for her to be married until they return to their old village. He is now becoming a thoughtful father and overal person.


Page #174

Reflection:

Okonkwo has now returned back to his old village and he is shocked. Many of the people in the village have converted the Christian religion. Even his son Nwoye had left the last village to come here to practice Christianity. I would be shocked if i were him too. He thought he was leaving all that stuff but now has come back to it. I had just laughed when i had read this portion of the novel.