martes, 23 de abril de 2013

Things fall apart - reading journal part 2

 
How is Okonkwo affected by his exile?

Okonkwo is exile because of a shooting that took place in his village one that was by accident as the community call it it was a "female, because it had been inadvertent"p.91 in this quote we can see why he was banish  from his village. Okonkwo felt bad, sad and bored because of his exile and living in the house of her mother's brother. In the quote from page 96  there is an example of how was work for him at his exile "Work no longer had for him the pleasure it  used to have..."  The narrator also uses the metaphor and contrast to express the way he felt "He had been cast out of his clan like a fish on to a dry, sandy beach, panting"p.96.

2. How is Nwoye affected?

With the exile of Okonkwo from the village, Nwoye gets the opportunity to put distance between him and 
his father. He uses the religion to separate them, Nwoye turns into a missionary which did not have Okonkwo's approvement . This problem evidence the way Nwoye thinks about his father "How is your father?... I don't know. He is not my father" p.96


3. How does their relationship change?

The relationship between  Okonkwo and Nwoye  changed in a drastic way. Compare to the first part of the book when Nwoye was a afraid of his father and couldn't stand up against him, now he has find the courage to tell people how he felt. On the other side, Okonkwo has also broke the relationship with his son as the quote form page 96 says "Okonkwo did not wish to speak about Nwoye" he was upset and mad with Nwoye so from both sides the relationship was broken.

4. Predict the end of the book.

I think that the end of the book would be that Okonkwo would finish his exile and find all his village turn into a whole different place by the colonists. He would find that some of the people of his community would be treated bad and that things would never be the same for him as how it was when he was at the village. Another aspect that I think would happen is that more people will turn into Christianity and that he would have a huge conflict with his self and the environment in which he would have to live.

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