Sunday, February 3, 2008
Chapter Eight
Chapter Eight, finally something he does has a negative effect on him! It tells about him grieving for the death of Ikemefuna. He can’t sleep or eat for a couple days afterwards. The only thing in this chapter, it does not say anything about how the rest of the family is coping without Ikemefuna. After this, Okonkwo goes to his friend, Obierika, hut and is invited to attend a meeting about the friend’s daughter’s suitor. So Okonkwo goes home for a while, until he is needed back the hut. The suitors name is Ibe, his fathers name is Ukegbu, and both families come to an agreement on the price Obierika’s daughter after eating a kola nut, drink wine, and then afterwards eat foo-foo. This chapter also talks about the death of a couple from another village, the husband died then his eldest wife, but she was buried before he was. A lot of these names are very confusing, because they are all so close, for example, Okonkwo, Obierika, Ozoemena, Ogbuefi, there are so many that are similar it is sometimes hard to keep each straight.
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I know, lol I could barely believe that Okonkwo was affected so much after Ikemefuna's death. As the book continues there is many more surprises like this.
When Okonkwo kills Ikemefuna he loses my respect as a hero in this novel. I just can't like him. Achebe uses him more to tell the story of the tribe, rather than paint him as a respectable character.
The way I figure it, all the stuff in his life goes wrong after this form of negative karma. I guess that's harsh, but Okonkwo killed his own step-son which makes him a bad guy in my eyes.
Sometimes when names in a novel are hard to keep separate, then what you might do is make a graphic organizer or web tree which can help keep things straight. Just a suggestion.
Mr. Farrell
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