https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n Post your response below. en-us 2016-11-01 11:50:03 UTC 2016-11-01 13:17:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134453776 By giving the Commissioner's perspective of how his takeover of the Ibo tribe has been a "pacification", Achebe shows that the missionaries have a single story of their tribe. It also demonstrates through him wanting to write a single paragraph on Okonkwo in a book entirely about Okonkwo that they do not understand the Ibo perspective.]]> 2016-11-01 13:02:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134453776 https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134453904 Achebe conveys the message that the missionaries never really took the time to understand the culture and religion of the people of the ibo tribe by explaining how the commissioner viewed the people of the ibo tribe as primitive and uncivilized.]]> 2016-11-01 13:02:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134453904 https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134454204 He accentuates the Englishmen and their blatant disregard to the complexity of the tribe. Rather than seeing their monetary, judicial, and (albeit verbal and misogynistic) legislative system, they prefer to straight away implement their own beliefs and superiority. Africans are not the primitives living in the war torn back of the world we assume. That's a bit of an off topic sentence but what they are not all those that follow the perception we have created after hundreds of years of colonization.]]> 2016-11-01 13:03:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134454204 17imartel https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134454875 I believe that Achebe is trying to covey the colonization of Africa in the eyes of one of the colonizers. He tries to picture how the tribes of Africa must look to the colonizers. Moreso however, he talks about the idea of writing about a person in a book, that though Okonkwo will likely only be a small part of the book, no amount of pages will be able to truly convey the entire story of Okonkwo. Achebe wants the reader to understand that every character in a novel has dozens of their own stories that will go unwritten, and that behind every mention of a character is a fully fledged life.]]> 2016-11-01 13:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134454875 https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134455695 I think that Achebe is trying to show how little the colonists care about the Ibo people. They take no notice of the culture in the past and I think the comment about only giving Okonkwo a paragraph in his book demonstrates a lack of respect. If the death of a higher member of the clan only gets one paragraph the clan is unlikely to get much more. This also demonstrates how many tribes the Commissioner is trying to "pacify."]]> 2016-11-01 13:08:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134455695 https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134455709 The author is trying to oun out how ironic it is for people think that they are making things peaceful, when they are doing the complete opposite. ]]> 2016-11-01 13:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134455709 https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134455741 I think he is trying to show the white peoples point of view of the African tribes. The white people have no respect for the tribes' culture and just deem that their beliefs are wrong throughout the novel and deem them to be inferior]]> 2016-11-01 13:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134455741 https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134455745 He wants to show the reader how little the white colonists care about the natives. Okonkwo is a man with aspirations, fears, insecurities, ]]> 2016-11-01 13:08:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134455745 https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134455782 I think the last paragraph was meant to provide some information on how the white people view the African tribes. They have so little respect for the Africans ]]> 2016-11-01 13:08:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134455782 https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134455801 I believe the message that Achebe is trying to convey through the final paragraph is how he sees their culture and religion, and he is saying they are a undeveloped culture. ]]> 2016-11-01 13:08:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134455801 https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134455819 Caroline Ferro]]> 2016-11-01 13:08:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134455819 https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134455885 We have seen the entire book through the eyes of the villagers of Umofia and I think the final paragraph was implemented to show the contrast about how the Europeans think about them.]]> 2016-11-01 13:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134455885 https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134455939 I believe he is trying to convey the incorrect assumption the world has against Africans. He uses words like "primitive" and "civilize" to convey the belief that Africans are almost like animals. ]]> 2016-11-01 13:08:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134455939 https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134456009 Achebe tries to convey to the reader how much the missionaries disregarded the natives. How stubborn and unable they were to look at the native culture with an open mind, instead enforcing their own because they deemed it 'right'. ]]> 2016-11-01 13:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134456009 https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134456263 I feel like Achebe is trying to convey the idea that the white man simply does not care for the countries they are trying to colonize. That they just want more power, and believe that these clans, and tribes are uncivilized, and are depicted as savages that need to be showed the right way.

]]> 2016-11-01 13:09:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134456263 https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134456282 I believe Achebe is trying to show the bias of someone from one country writing the stories of another, in a one sided way.]]> 2016-11-01 13:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134456282 https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134456653 With the final paragraph, Achebe is trying to portray the attitudes of the commissioner . He views all these events as material to add to his entertaining story. He looks at the African tribes as people who are like animals. He is completely naive to their own unique culture, and spread the word that they are primitive people who need to be "civilized"]]> 2016-11-01 13:10:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134456653 https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134457053 He is trying to show the reader how little the white colonists care about the natives. Okonkwo is a man with his own aspirations, fears, insecurities, and values, and he is important to a lot of people. The commissioner, however, reduces him to a single paragraph in his book about trying to "civilize the savages"]]> 2016-11-01 13:11:45 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134457053 https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134458354 2016-11-01 13:14:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134458354 https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134458428 He is trying to show how people make their own assumptions about other cultures and about other people without really knowing the facts]]> 2016-11-01 13:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134458428 17lpelosky https://padlet.com/mr_estabrook_wa/z8kajus5sv4n/wish/134459283 I feel that he is trying to show people not to be so judgemental and to get to know someone before you judge

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