Things Fall Apart: Chapter 3

Chapter three goes more into detail on how Okonkwo earned his title and wealth. He started out share cropping and his first season of planting was very rough. There was either to little or too much rain, too little or too much sun. Some how Okonkwo worked his way through that season. I believe that one of the reasons he made it through was his determination and perseverance not to be like his father. I also believe that having to support his mother and siblings was also another reason he worked so hard that season to make ends meet. Something that I found weird was how they held conversations. Like how the person who brought the wine would drink it first to make sure it was ok to serve to the rest of the people at the meeting, then how they drank from oldest to youngest, and finally how they had their first wife drink first and then the rest drank in descending order. For the most part they are a pretty nice tribe, I mean how many people do you that would drink their own beverage before serving it to other people. The tribe is also a very hard working tribe, I believe that today we are losing a lot of hands on work, most of it is being done by robots now or in foreign nations. One thing that I do not understand is why they put people who had swelling of the limbs in the Forest of Evil to die, and they would not bury them. I do not understand why it was an abomination to them. I also thought it was funny when they took the one guy to the Forest and he walked back to his house, and they had to take him back again and tie him to a tree lol.