entry 36

7/25/08
entry 36
quote of reflection: Obierika, who had been gazing steadily at his friend's dangling body,

Sad to say this but the body that Obierika had been staring at

was, his best friend, Okonkwo. Okonkwo had hung himself because he couldn't

take the changes that were going on, when his village took matters in the account

they were taken as prisoners and beat. When they were free the villages were

debating on war, all Okonkwo knew was that he wanted revenge. With this hatred

bottled up inside him, he killed one of the white messengers that were trying to stop

the meeting the villages were having. He acted on impulse what he had done and

he knew their would be a consequence, all this and pressure from what was going

to happen to his fatherland, all the things that Okonkwo seen as good were now

falling apart. One of the greatest men of Umuofia was now dead, he was to be buried

by strangers this was the clan's custom. How horrible that must have been for Obierika

not even able to say his last good bye to his friend, or even touch him before he was to

be buried. What is sad but true is that even the greatest of the great fall too.