Igbo Family In Things Fall Apart
Things in life may not go as you plan, but just keep going and never give up. When you plan something down to the last step sometimes it does not go as you planned that it would. “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe. “Things Fall Apart” is about the Igbo people, their culture and how they react to when the white missionaries come to their land. Things don’t go as planned even among families.
Family is family, even if there are differences. In the Igbo culture, having more than one wife is a normal thing. “Under the practice of polygyny, many Igbo men have more than one wife” (“Igbo”). Okonkwo does not like his son Nwoye because he reminds him of this dad. “Unoka, for that was his father’s name, had died ten years ago. In his day he was lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow” (Achebe 3). This shows that Okonkwo did not care for his father and that he thinks that Nwoye is just like him. In the end family is family, even through good and bad times.
Family they care about about one another no matter if it's in good or bad times. When Ekwefi protested Okonkwo stated that it was not her affair. “I am calling a feast because I have the wherewithal. I cannot live on the bank of a river and wash my hands with spittle. My Mother’s people have been good to me and I must show my gratitude” …show more content…
“Things Fall Apart”. Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 1959.
CURRY, TIM. "Nigeria." Countries and Their Cultures, edited by Carol R. Ember and Melvin
Ember, vol. 3, Macmillan Reference USA, 2001, pp. 1624-1642. Gale Virtual Reference Library, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3401700177/GVRL?u=marionhigh&sid=GVRL&xid=5345a74b. Accessed 26 Feb. 2018.
"Igbo." Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures, edited by Timothy L. Gall and Susan
Bevan Gall, vol. 6, UXL, 1999, pp. 181-186. Gale Virtual Reference Library, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3435900354/GVRL?u=marionhigh&sid=GVRL&xid=dae005f7. Accessed 26 Feb.
Family is family, even if there are differences. In the Igbo culture, having more than one wife is a normal thing. “Under the practice of polygyny, many Igbo men have more than one wife” (“Igbo”). Okonkwo does not like his son Nwoye because he reminds him of this dad. “Unoka, for that was his father’s name, had died ten years ago. In his day he was lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow” (Achebe 3). This shows that Okonkwo did not care for his father and that he thinks that Nwoye is just like him. In the end family is family, even through good and bad times.
Family they care about about one another no matter if it's in good or bad times. When Ekwefi protested Okonkwo stated that it was not her affair. “I am calling a feast because I have the wherewithal. I cannot live on the bank of a river and wash my hands with spittle. My Mother’s people have been good to me and I must show my gratitude” …show more content…
“Things Fall Apart”. Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 1959.
CURRY, TIM. "Nigeria." Countries and Their Cultures, edited by Carol R. Ember and Melvin
Ember, vol. 3, Macmillan Reference USA, 2001, pp. 1624-1642. Gale Virtual Reference Library, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3401700177/GVRL?u=marionhigh&sid=GVRL&xid=5345a74b. Accessed 26 Feb. 2018.
"Igbo." Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures, edited by Timothy L. Gall and Susan
Bevan Gall, vol. 6, UXL, 1999, pp. 181-186. Gale Virtual Reference Library, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3435900354/GVRL?u=marionhigh&sid=GVRL&xid=dae005f7. Accessed 26 Feb.