McKinze Johnson Things Fall Apart by Mckinze Johnson https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8 Various interpretations of masculinity and power within a culture or family can distance oneself from reality, truth, and unity en-us 2019-05-08 16:33:30 UTC 2019-05-21 13:41:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png Chapter 3 mckinze42 https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358148307 "You, Unoka, are known in all the clan for the weakness of your machete and your hoe." This quote basically describes how Unoka does not have a strength within a machete and his hoe. ]]> 2019-05-08 17:01:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358148307 Chapter 3 mckinze42 https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358151345 "Unoka was an ill-fated man. He had a bad chi or personal god, and evil fortune followed him to the earth goddess. When a man was afflicted with swelling in the stomach and the limbs he was not allowed to die in the house...…...Such was Unoka's fate. When they carried him away, he took with him his flute." Despite Unoka's laziness, his sad end is still attributed to his personal god. When Unoka died he carried his flute with him which was the object he loved but this also represented failings in his life. ]]> 2019-05-08 17:07:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358151345 Chapter 5 mckinze42 https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358157971  " 'Who killed this tree? Or are you all deaf and dumb?' As a matter of fact the tree was very much alive. Okonkwo's second wife had merely cut a few leaves off of it to wrap some food, and she said so. Without further argument Okonkwo gave her sound beating and left her and her daughter weeping and her only daughter weeping ………. His anger thus satisfied, Okonkwo decided to go out hunting. He had an old rusty gun made by a clever blacksmith who had come to live in Umuofia long ago …. he was not a hunter. In fact he had not killed a rat with is gun. And so when he called Ikemefuna to fetch his gun, the wife who had just been beaten murmured something about guns that never shot. Unfortunately for her, Okonkwo heard it and ran madly into his room for the loaded gun, ran out again and aimed at her as she clambered over and dwarf wall of the barn." It seems as though whenever Okonkwo feels uncomfortable it makes him very angry , just as how his shame at the mockery of his father made him angry when young. And when he is angry he gets violent. The anger that he considers masculine turns out to have a lot of destructive potential. I think this distances Okonkwo from reality because in reality beating a woman is not okay although it happens a lot.]]> 2019-05-08 17:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358157971 Image Example mckinze42 https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358172149 This image relates to the story because of the fact Okonkwo beat his wives.]]> 2019-05-08 17:46:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358172149 Chapter 6 mckinze42 https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358173682 "The whole village turned out on the ilo, men women and children. Thy stood round in a huge circle leaving the center of the playground free. The elders and grandees of the village sat o their own stools brought there by their young sons or slaves."         
Masculinity and strength are is something important  in Umuofia culture, so that is why wrestling is such a big tradition.
]]> 2019-05-08 17:48:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358173682 Article Example mckinze42 https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358184501 This article also shows how domestic violence is a big deal. Along with the fat that Okonkwo beat all of his wives.]]> 2019-05-08 18:08:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358184501 Chapter 13 mckinze42 https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358186996 "Somebody was dead The cannon seemed to rend the sky. Di-go-go-di-go-di-di-go-go...……… AT last the man was name and people sighed 'E-u-u, Ezeudu is dead' A cold shiver ran down Okonkwo's back as he remembered the last time the old man had visited him. 'That boy calls you father,' he had said. 'Bear no had in his death.' "  
Drums usually symbolize there is news in the village. Okonkwo's killing of Ikemefuna continues to affect him, though he would never show or admit this to anyone because he think showing emotions is to feminine.
]]> 2019-05-08 18:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358186996 mckinze42 https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358195543 This image demonstrates stereotype and it relates to the article because of the fact that Okonkwo believed that women were not strong and that they were week. Also because of the fact he was ]]> 2019-05-08 18:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358195543 Article Example mckinze42 https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358474877 ( scroll down to where the subtitles says "Girls a vulnerable, and boys are strong" This article illustrates how men believe they are stronger then women.]]> 2019-05-09 13:58:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358474877 Picture Example mckinze42 https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358477846 This is a picture of male wrestlers I would also like to show a picture of female wrestlers. However I would like to use this example because in Things Fall Apart only the MEN wrestle to show how "strong" they were.]]> 2019-05-09 14:03:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mckinze42/edkuhd2ha0b8/wish/358477846