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We cannot bury him. Only strangers can. We shall pay your men to do it. When he has been buried we will then do our duty 10 by him. We shall make sacrifices to cleanse the desecrated land.”

In the end of this  book I believe the values of the clans vs the missionaries was very hard for him and brought him into a depression because he couldn’t do anything and the missionaries were powerful and he felt like his father.

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“Worthy men are no more,” 30 Okonkwo sighed as he remembered those days. “Isike will never forget how we slaughtered them in that war. We killed twelve of their men and they killed only two of ours. Before the end 35 of the fourth market week they were suing for peace. Those were days when men were men.”

In this I can tell that okonkwo is definitely letting the person values and traditions shape his personality and how he interacts with others.

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Okonkwo warned the others to be fully armed. “An Umuofia man does not refuse a call,” he said. “He may refuse to do what he is asked, he does not refuse to be asked. But the times have changed, and we must be fully prepared.”

okonkwo knows the cultural traditions and values of umuofia so it was easy for him to warn the others.

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There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him. Mr. Smith danced a furious step and so the drums went mad.

He uses a saying from umuofia to convey what was going on at the moment.

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Okonkwo was deeply grieved. And it was not just a personal grief. He mourned for the clan, which he saw breaking up and falling apart, and he mourned for the warlike men of Umuofia, who had so unaccountably become soft like women.

His love for the clan Which made him feel like he had beome like his father because he wasn’t around strong men and soft women.

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Ezinma grew up in her father’s exile and became one of the most beautiful girls in Mbanta. She was 25 called Crystal of Beauty, as her mother had been called in her youth. The young ailing girl who had caused her mother so much heartache had been transformed, almost overnight, 30 into a healthy, buoyant maiden. She had, it was true, her moments of depression when she would snap at everybody like an angry dog. These moods descended on her suddenly and 35 for no apparent reason. But they were very rare and short-lived. As long as they lasted, she could bear no other person but her father.

Gives details of a female coming of age tradition.

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d pots and pots of palm-wine.
All the umunna were invited to the feast, all the descendants of Okolo, who had lived about two hundred years before. The oldest member of this extensive family was Okonkwo’s uncle, Uchendu. The kola nut was given him to break, and he prayed to the ancestors. He asked them for health and children. “We do not ask for wealth because he that has health and children will also have wealth. We do not pray to have more money but to have more kinsmen. We are better than animals because we have kinsmen. An animal rubs its itching flank against a tree, a man asks his kinsman to scratch him.” He prayed especially for Okonkwo and his family. He then broke the kola nut and threw one of the lobes on the ground for the ancestors.

Discusses the traditions of the household and the feast.

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But on one occasion the missionaries had tried to over step the bounds. Three converts had gone into the village and boasted openly that all the gods were dead and impotent and that they were prepared to defy them by burning all their shrines.
“Go and burn your mothers’ genitals,” said one of the priests. The men were seized and beaten until they streamed with blood. After that nothing happened for a long time between the church and the clan.

The missionaries did not agree with the religion of the clans and physically threatened them.

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They want a piece of land to build 25 their shrine,” said Uchendu to his peers when they consulted among themselves. “We shall give them a piece of land.” He paused, and there was a murmur of surprise and 30 disagreement. “Let us give them a portion of the Evil Forest. They boast about victory over death.

They didn’t agree with the missionaries having a church in their villages and didn’t agree with their beliefs

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“The missionaries had come to Umuofia. They had built their church there, won a handful of converts and were already sending evangelists to the surrounding towns and village”

The people of Umuofia did not stop the missionaries from building the curch.

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“Those were good days when a man had friends in distant clans. Your generation does not know that. “

Uchendu implies that days used to be good when people from other clans were friends.

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A man belongs to his fatherland and not to his motherland. And yet we say Nneka - ‘Mother is Supreme.’ Why is that?”
There was silence. “ I want Okonkwo to answer me,” said Uchendu.
“I do not know the answer,” Okonkwo replied.
“You do not know the answer? So you see that you are a child. You have many wives and many children—more children than I have. You are a great man in your clan. But you are still a child, my child. Listen to me and I shall tell you. But there is one more question I shall ask you. Why is it that when a woman dies she is taken home to be buried with her own kinsmen? She is not buried with her husband’s kinsmen. Why is that? Your mother was brought home to me and buried with my people. Why was that?”
Okonkwo shook his head.

Uchendu believes in something that doesn’t go with okonkwo’s belifs

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“all men who have passed through the annual rituals of coming-of-age together are of the same age group
egwugwu: a masquerader who impersonates one of the ancestral spirits of the village
egwugwu a masked dancer who impersonates a spirit in Ibo rituals
nine villages.”

The nine villages had a coming of age  ceremony which says that the nine villages had “some” similar values.

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“Okonkwo’s family was astir like any other family in the neighborhood. Nwoye’s mother and Okonkwo’s youngest wife were ready to set out for Obierika’s compound with all their children. Nwoye’s mother carried a basket of coco-yams, a cake of salt and smoked fish which she would present to Obierika’s wife. Okonkwo’s youngest wife, Ojiugo, also had a basket of plantains and coco-yams and a small pot of palm-oil. Their children carried pots of water.”

This is an example of cultural tolerance in the household.

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“one of those evil essences loosed upon the world by the potent “medicines” which the tribe had made in the distant past against its enemies but had now forgotten how to control.”

Let’s the audience know that tribes had conflicts in the past.

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“Large crowds began to gather on the village ilo as soon as the edge had worn off the sun’s heat and it was no longer painful on the body. Most communal ceremonies took place at that time of the day, so that even when it was said that a ceremony would begin “after the midday meal” everyone understood that it would begin a long time later, when the sun’s heat had softened.“

There are other villages outside of umuofia.

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“You must watch the pot carefully,” he said as he went, “and don’t allow it to boil over. If it does its power will be gone.” He went away to his hut and Ekwefi began to tend the medicine pot almost as if it was itself a sick child. Her eyes went constantly from Ezinma to the boiling pot and back to Ezinma”
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obi: the large living quarters of the head of the family
“Ogbuefi Ndulue of Ire village,” Okonkwo and Obierika said together.

Let’s us know that neighboring villages also shared the same  values.

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“The next day a group of elders from all the nine villages of Umuofia came to Okonkwo’s house early in the morning, and before they began to speak in low tones Nwoye and Ikemefuna were sent out. They did not stay very long, but when they went away Okonkwo sat still for a very long time supporting his chin in his palms.”

This let’s us know that umoufia is made up of nine villages which means that umoufia is made up of nine different cultures.

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“There were twelve men on each side and the challenge went from one side to the other. Two judges walked around the wrestlers and when they thought they 35 were equally matched, stopped them. Five matches ended in this way. But the really exciting moments were when a man was thrown. The huge voice of the crowd then rose to the sky and in every 40 direction. It was even heard in the surrounding villages.”

In this passage it let’s us know that a huge voice was heard in neighboring villages meaning it was very  close to other villages.

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“not the shriveled and fibrous crop of the previous year. All cooking pots, calabashes and wooden bowls were thoroughly washed, especially the wooden mortar in which yam was pounded. Yam foo-foo and vegetable soup was the chief food in the celebration. So much of it was cooked that, no matter how heavily the family ate or how many friends and relatives they invited from neighboring villages, there was always a large quantity of food left over at the end of the day.”

In this passage  the neighboring people are invited over for a feast which supports the theme of allowing diversity and having tolerance for other cultures.

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“He was by nature a very lively boy and he gradually became popular in Okonkwo’s household, especially with the children. Okonkwo’s son, Nwoye, who was two years younger, became quite inseparable from him because he seemed to know everything. He could fashion out flutes from bamboo stems and even from the elephant grass. He knew the names of all the birds and could set clever traps for the little bush rodents. And he knew which trees made the strongest bows.”

In This quote  okonkwo is fond of the boys abilities and he comes from a different culture also.

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“Share-cropping was a very slow way of building up a barn of one’s own. After all the toil one only got a third of the harvest. But for a young man whose father had no yams, there was no other way. And what made it worse in Okonkwo’s case was that he had to support his mother and two sisters from his meagre harvest. And supporting his mother also meant supporting his father. She could not be expected to cook and eat while her husband starved. And so at a very early age when he was striving desperately to build a barn through share-cropping Okonkwo was also fending for his father’s house. It was like pouring grains of corn into a bag full of holes. His mother and sisters worked hard enough, but they grew women’s crops, like coco-yams, beans and cassava. Yam, the king of crops, was a man’s crop.”

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“But the war that now threatened was a just war. Even the enemy clan knew that. And so when Okonkwo of Umuofia arrived at Mbaino as the proud and imperious emissary of war, he was treated with great honor and respect, and two days later he returned home with a lad of fifteen and a young virgin.”

In this quote an example of tolerance and cultural values.

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“Sometimes another village would ask Unoka’s band and their dancing egwugwu to come and stay with them and teach them their tunes. They would go to such hosts for as long as three or four markets, making music and feasting.”

In this passage the Narrator talks about Other villages which most likely have differences in culture. Also it is an example of the theme of unity and tolerance.