Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Things Fall Apart: Chapter 15
This chapter starts out with Okonkwo's good friend Obierika making a visit to Okonkwo. This somehow his second year in exile so I guess that the book has skipped over quite a bit. When Obierika arrives he gives Okonkwo some bags of cowries. He also tells Okonkwo that the village of Abame was destroyed by the white men. It started when some arrived at the camp and the prophets predicted that they would destroy their village so they killed the "white men". The funniest part was when they tied the white mans "iron horse (bicycle)" to the sacred tree so it would not go anywhere haha, lol. Then village was destroyed by the white mans following comrades. I think that when they tied the "iron horse" to tree so it could not get away was the funniest thing I have heard so far in this book. Well at this point I believe that some wars will break out because of the white mans arrival and possibly Okonkwo could be killed in the fighting.
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Yeah I din't realize that the "iron horse" was a bicycle until the next chapter haha, but I thought it was funny too.
Yeah, we move ahead something like 7 years in 30 pages. I guess one
nice thing about writing a book is you can fold time and space.
The coming of the white man is going to spell trouble for these people as you will see. The "iron horse" thing is sort of funny, but you know the whites will retaliate.
More info about Okonkwo's feelings of exile?
Mr. Farrell
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