Things fall apart

This is a man that lived in fear his whole life of failing and of being seen as weak. Okonkwo’ fathers name was Unoka, he was seen in the clan as the weak one and the lazy old man. Okonkwo growing up had to provide for the family and in time he worked hard and pushed him self using his father’s failure as his focus. He wanted to show every one that he was not weak and that he was a great success. Okonkwo grew up very fast he supported his family very well and also he becomes very well known or famous for his accomplishments. At one point he becomes one of the most well know people in the whole clan. This happens when he over throws the “cat” he was a wrestler that always won and was said to be undefeatable but when Okonkwo wins he is awarded with fame and popularity. Okonkwo also becomes a successful farmer. Okonkwo also gets three titles in the clan and three wives and a hand full of children. All of these things accumulated up and with all of it he became an image in the society as the man that rules with an iron fist. Okonkwo is a well respected figure until at a celebration his gun explodes and ends up killing some one so he leaves for seven years. In this time his children for the most part grow up and Ezinma ends up turning into a pretty your lady. With many husbands in line and many men asking for her hand in marriage, she also adds to Okonkwos success with having such a beautiful daughter. When Okonkwo returns he comes home with out that much power in the village. Then tries to go against the church beliefs because he is the kind of man that goes with what he believes in and it has worked for him in the past and worked for him in getting all that he accomplished. Okonkwo ergs every one to go against the church and fight but the problem is that no one wants to fight and Okonkwo has to much pride to no fight and give up. He ends up killing a couple of the church followers and then runs away. When they find him he is dead, he is found hanging by a string. Okonkwo’s over all character is strong and powerful on the out side but inside is always scared that some one might find him soft or weak and he lives with that all his life that is another reason that he is so hard on every one else.

Ikemefuna is a character that only is in the beginning of the novel do to the fact that he dies. Ikemefuna is traded into there village. The village decides to have Ikemefuna live with Okonkwo. At first Okonkwo thinks it is for a brief time period. Ikemefuna ends up living there about 6 or 7 years. He becomes very friendly with the other children and mostly with Nwoye. Nwoye and Ikemefuna both in Okonkwos eyes are good for each other. He lets them stay in his hut and all of them tell stories and things like that. Ikemefuna even ends up calling Okonkwo as, “father” Ikemefuna is forgotten by the village and in the house hold of Okonkwo fit in pretty nicely. Okonkwo also becomes found of the boy. The problem with this is that Ikemefuna is finally going to leave the house hold of Okonkwo. In addition, Okonkwo is told not to take him to the forest because he is going to be killed. However, he goes any ways and when Ikemefuna is first struck with a machete, he screams to Okonkwo, “father father they are killing me.” However, Okonkwo does not want to look weak in any way so he just finishes the job and kills Ikemefuna with his own hands, and after that everything starts to gradually fall apart.

Nwoye is Oknokwo’s oldest son. Oknokwo looks at him and the only thing that he sees in him is weakness and laziness. Okonkwo also looks at him and tries to change his ways but just does not successes. Okonkwo also beats Nwoye into becoming stronger and more like a man and less like a boy. Basically Okonkwo pushes Nwoye to try to grow up as fast as he can. Ikemefuna is the boy that comes into the family and Nwoye learns a lot and also has increasable relation ship with Ikemefuna. Ikemefuna teaches or pushes Nwoye into doing more man things and in doing so Oknokwo also is happy and is not that mad. The problem that comes up is that Okonkwo takes Ikemefuna away from Nwoye and from about then on Nwoye really never becomes any where close to Okonkwo. Okonkwo also constantly beats Nwoye throughout his life so when the missionaries come by he takes his way out and leaves his family or leaves his father to go live with the missionaries and learn at a school.

Is the only child that Kefir has? Out of ten children Kefir was able to bring one up older than infancy. Ezinma is the child that Oknokwo would choose over any other of his children. In other words out of all of his children Ezinma is his favorite. He likes her and chooses her over all the other ones because she reminds him of his mothers beauty and also more than anything else she understands Unknown moor than any one else as well. He would like it very much if she was a boy because she has all the qualities that Okonkwo thinks are important. As she grows up she shows loyalty to her father and family but she also turns into a beautiful young lady that every one wants and are just fascinated by her youth and beauty.

Kefir is Okonkwo’s second wife. In there youth she was the village beauty during the same time that Okonkwo was working on his wrestling title and he ended up marring her. She was married but then after she meets Okonkwo she also ended up abandoning or running away from her old or first husband and running away with Okonkwo. She also only has one child by the name of Ezinma. During Kefir’s pregnancies something always ends up coming up wrong with the child and almost all of them never lived past infancy. Out of about 9 or 10 tries she finally got one child to live past infancy but she is constantly warring about her because of the out come of the others. Kefir. Is a good and faithful wife, but she is an even better mother to Ezinma she has this connection with her and feels for her because she is the only child that survived.

Obi Erika and Okonkwo are to character that are very much different and alike. Both characters have a successful family and both are well respected in the community. The main thing that separates Okonkwo from his friend is that Okonkwo does everything out of force. He forces people to do things and as well he does everything with such anger and violence. He acts on his instinct and he does only what is good for his title or reputation. On the other hand Obi Erika is a man of high stature that is pretty much the opposite of Okonkwo he more or less is a thinker. He thinks about the clans actions and how things work in the society. For example in Obi Erika’s family everything for the most part is happy and Obi Erika treats his family good and does not beat them and hit them as much as the other family fathers. The other side of it is that Okonkwo uses force in his family there for his family fears him as much as they care for him. The main idea to think about in this is which father you would help at the time of need. The one that beats you and that yells and screams when you have a fault or do something wrong, or the father that cares for you and shows it by not beating you or just treating you with some type of quality or respect. Obi Erika is a thinker, a good father, well tempered man, and most of all Obi Erika is the man in the clan that would probably except change and really looks at the clan sometimes and questions it. Okonkwo is a rough man, good father deep down but does not show it a lot, and he looks at the clan with respect never judging it in any wrong way. So there it is we have the thinker and we have the intimidator.

-The largest unit of government among the Ibo was a loose affiliation of villages, like the nine villages of Mafia.

-The Ibo also had an ingenious way of ensuring that no one in the clan gained too much wealth and therefore too much power

-To receive the highest title in the clan, a man had to pay the debt of every member of the community. Needless to say, few men accepted this privilege.

-Ibo women were not with out power, and Ache be described the unmade, or daughters of the clan, who seem to exercise authority in certain arena.

-the unmade also regulated the markets in each town and settled civic and marital disputes. The wives of the clan would bring pressure to bear on a man guilty of wife abuse through public humiliation.

-Women would harass him in front of clan members with songs and gestures of a rude nature until he changes his behavior.

Kinswomen of the battered woman who had married into the clan would pressure their own men to do something about the abuse.

-CHI- is a person’s spiritual “double” linking him or her to the ancestors, the unborn and the Chow the great God that created all the other gods and humankind.

-Any is the earth goddess in charge of morality; she also controls the fertility of people, animals, and plants and serves as a symbolic womb for the dead before they are reborn.

-The Ibo, who traditionally were farmers, held any in high regard because they depended on her for food. Any is the daughter of Chow, the creator of the world and of all other gods.

-Gala, the Oracle o the Hills and Caves, is the voice or messenger of any. Although Gala is a male, he is strongly associated with the female earth; his name can also mean “woman,” and he is served by a priestess. Agbala pronouncements are considered unquestionable and must be carried out by the clan.

-The Ibo, like other people throughout the world use folktales and proverbs to instill the clan’s morality in their children and to pass on their beliefs about spirituality and the nature of the universe.

-Cowrie shells were formerly used as money. The cowrie is a shiny, white and tan mollusk (snail), about a half-inch long. The major portion of the bride-price for Obierka’s daughter is 20 bgs of cowries. The chalk made of white clay was used by the ibo in rituals. It symbolizes peace. An ibo custom was to break a kola nut with a guest.

-The African “talking drums” are used as musical insterments, but they can reproduce the rhythms and pitches of African languages.

-Among the most important crops cultivated by the ibo are the yam and the oil palm. The Africna yam is a larger tuber with a think, dark outer skin covering white meat. Yams can be boiled, mashed, fried, or roasted like potatoes.

-Edema the swelling disease-the condition that condemned him to a dishonorable death in the evil forest.

-edema- also called dropsy or hydrops, is swelling caused when too much fluid is tored in body tissues and cavities.

We in this society are driven by two things money and more than worldy objects. Worldy objects have most people in America working hard and pushing them selves to be better then the next person. In more basic terms America is like a race. You start out running for your self and then look to the side or ahead of you and you se some one ahead of you and they are winning. So it pushes you to move ahead and compete with him and try to win the race. Yes, there is more in the United States than just worldy possetions and money. But those two things are the things that drive people and push people to strive and come forward . In other cultures there are somethings that people might take for crazy or inhuman. As our way of life anything from as the way we dress to the food we eat. To the power money brings an dteh way that love is found. In every culture there are many thins that

Cycle to the world something major would happen in the world. Something major that would change man kind. Ex. 500 B.C./O Christ Beginning fall of Romen empire.

The Second Coming -- W. B. Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; [HR1]
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. [HR2]

Surely some revelation is at hand; [HR3]
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi [HR4]
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep [HR5]
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, [HR6]
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? [HR7]

Aristotle and the hero connecting to Okankwo all the once that went to romeo and Juliet

[HR1]Things fall apart title of book

[HR2]The world is upside down and reverse

[HR3]Poem takes a different turn.

[HR4]World or earth

[HR5]2000 years since Jesus was born

[HR6]Cradle as Jesus

[HR7]Refrence to Jesus

[HR8]The final thought is that Yeats was saying that something is coming in 2000 and its not going to be good.