Aaron was right, because this book is really jumpy, it goes from Okonkwo being older with three wives, and then young. It is also about random things, the first two chapters were about his father and chapter two is about his life with three wives and the possibility of war between his village and another. Now it's about his life when he is getting established, and starting his own farm, borrowing yams from other villagers, and every one having a bad growing season first from drought and then violent rains that made the yams rot.
There seems to be about a lot of culture so far. It is written like a biography, explaining all of his struggles through out his life, but also how his life is affected by his culture; for example, in chapter three he talks about sacrifices that take place before the growing season and the planting of the crops. These sacrifices were made for Ani, their god, to help their crops grow.
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Ha, yea Deryk, there is a lot of culture in this book. I'm beginning to think we are going to end up knowing more about the culture itself than Okonkwo in the end. We do learn a lot about his struggles, though.
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