https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu en-us 2017-03-27 15:02:54 UTC 2017-04-12 15:34:05 UTC hello@padlet.com curtisa11 https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/162852500 The many things that indicate wealth in Okonkwo's village, such as yams, are the very things he was deprived of in his youth because of his father. Okonkwo seems incapable of escaping his guilt of father's many failures and in recompense for them he becomes the best of many villages and strives to have more, and essentially be more, than his father was. Because of his fatal flaw, a fixation on not being seen as weak like his father, Okonkwo expresses himself in an almost always violent manner. There is no place in his life or the lives of his family for gentleness. I doubt Okonkwo would be susceptible to therapy as we have now, even though it would be a blessing for his family. I believe he is doomed. He may be great in the eyes of the village but something will bring him down and it is likely to be himself.]]> 2017-03-27 15:20:35 UTC https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/162852500 curtisa11 https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/162853744 We are given a glimpse into why Okonkwo resents his father so much. Besides Unoka's laziness and lack of wealth to pass on to his son he also brings disgrace because of the way he died, through terrible swelling and without the acceptance from their goddess. Okonkwo's determination to be successful are what saves him from repeating his father's mistakes. I don't believe his life is much better than his father's though. Living constantly in someone's shadow, every action calculated by yourself, must be a dreadful existence.]]> 2017-03-27 15:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/162853744 curtisa11 https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/162853859 Okonkwo has a very unhealthy amount of rage. He beat his wife over some leaves? In one moment he is thinking of his favorite daughter and when he met one of his wives yet the next he's beating said wife and scolding the daughter. He seems to believe any emotion other than ones deemed "manly" are a weakness. He took his father's extreme laziness and turned it into extreme violence and unachievable expectations for those around him. There seems to be more going on with his daughter, Ezima, but I'm not sure what it is. It just seems suspicious concerning the conversation between her mother and the priestess.]]> 2017-03-27 15:23:52 UTC https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/162853859 https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/163867996 Okonkwo was wealthy and well known, but Unoka on the other hand was poor and didn't have a title. Okonkwo is super strict to his son who is only 12 show that he probably doesn't want his son to be like Unoka. In the first chapter, it said Okonkwo has a few wives and Unoka only had one and he could barely feed them. Does the amount of wife represent their wealth?]]> 2017-03-31 02:57:48 UTC https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/163867996 https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/163868016 In these chapters, it show that they women are treated poorly everyday except on Week of Peace and Okonkwo is very dependent due to his father lack of compassion. Where did Okonkwo get his abusive trait from?]]> 2017-03-31 02:58:03 UTC https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/163868016 https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/163868067 In this chapter, I feel like it is talking about a holiday that seem like only this tribe celebrate it and that Okonkwo's wives and daughter are more like his servant than family. The New Yam Festival sound like a fun celebration considering there's foods and activities, but mostly foods. He shot his wife because he heard her talk ill about his guns?!]]> 2017-03-31 02:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/163868067 https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/163868195 "A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing" 

It seem like the people in this culture tend to compare things to animal (aka nature-ish) Could it be that since where they live, its mostly farming and agriculuture stuff, so they connect more to nature? They people there seem to be hardworking people since they believe that their hard work gonna pay off. People do things for a reason.]]> 2017-03-31 03:00:16 UTC https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/163868195 curtisa11 https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/165415900 The Poisonwood Bible is in the perspective of outsiders whereas Things Fall Apart is in an Ibo perspective. They both contain references to the bible though- in Things Fall Apart Okonkwo said he would understand and adhere to the killing of his "son" if the Oracle willed it, similar to the story of Abraham and Isaac.]]> 2017-04-07 15:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/165415900 curtisa11 https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/166101571 Just as the Ibo people have titles that identify them as being in a higher class, we do also. We have the average Mister, Mrs., and Miss, but we also have Doctor, Judge, President- identifiers that we place on people seen as higher or in higher positions in our society.]]> 2017-04-12 15:27:17 UTC https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/166101571 phamh1 https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/166103418 2017-04-12 15:32:29 UTC https://padlet.com/curtisa11/2zjqeue1lpgu/wish/166103418