entry 6

6/17/08
entry 6
page of reflection: 24

It was many years ago during the time of the raining season. Okonkwo's father

had already past away and Okonkwo had to take care of his mother and sister.

As I said before the many struggles that Okonkwo had to go through in order

to have a prosperous future. This is one of the many struggles it was

one of the worst planting season for the yams. Okonkwo had borrowed seeds

to plant yams from a man which was considered wealthy in his village.

He borrowed 800 seeds. In the first weeks of the raining season he planted

the first few hundred seeds, everything was going well except that it was

extremely hot and there was no rain. So what ended up happening was that

the yams had grew partically but with lack of rain they ended up dying.

After a few weeks had past Okonkwo decided to plant the other 400 yams

that he promised the man. Only this time there was rain and the yams did

grow the only problem was that it didn't stop raining so what ever little

the yams had grown the rain drowend them. The worst of all was that this

didn't only happen to Okonkwo but to the whole village. It was such a tragic

year that he remembers that a man ended up hanging himself of despair.

Even to this day Okonkwo remembers how he survived that horrible yea,

and every time he thinks of it he gets a cold shiver. He was even surprised

of himself for not sinking under all the despair.