entry 9

6/24/08
entry 9
Page of reflection: 63-65

Three years had already passed and as we know Ikemefuna had became

part of the family. The reason being because Ikemefuna was being compensated

for his home village killing a women. When the boy was taken to the village of

Umuofia the village elders didn't know what to do with him so they decided

that Okonkwo was to take care of him. Well know that three years had gone

by like a mentioned earlier one of the village elders told him that the goddess

of the oricals wanted the boy to be killed because the women was killed.

How could Okonkwo let this happen to what he inside considered his own

son, heartbreaking that is how he took it. When he found out that the village

elders took him outside the village of Umuofia. For the past days Okonkwo

couldn't eat or sleep and the he felt like a drunk giant from drinking palm

wine. All the work that needed to be done around the compound was already

done, for that reason Okonkwo couldn't get his mind off of thinking about

Ikemefuna. Okonkwo even asked himself why does it bother him that the boy

was killed if he had already killed five men himself in battle, what was one more

to add to his list. The truth was that Okonkwo really loved Ikemefuna because

he was like a son to him whether he admitted it or not.