Unknown Story
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- Chapter 20
- “How can he when he does not even speak our tongue? But he says that our customs are bad; and our own brothers who have taken up his religion also say that our customs bad.”
- “Does the white man understand our custom about land?”
- Chapter 19
- But I fear for you young people because you do not understand how strong is the bond of kinship. You do not know what it is to speak with one voice. And what is the result? An abominable religion has settled among you...
- Chapter 23
- It was the time of the full moon. But that night the voice of children was not heard. The villageilowhere they always gathered for a moon-play was empty. The women of Iguedo did not meet in their secret enclosure to learn a new dance to be displayed later to the village. Young men who were always abroad in the moonlight kept their huts that night. Their manly voices were not heard on the village paths as they went to visit their friends and lovers. Umuofia was like a startled animal with ears erect, sniffing the silent, ominous air and not knowing which way to run.
- Chapter 20. Okonkwo is upset that he is one of the few remaining followers of Igbo culture and is upset that his own people think the customs of Igbo culture are bad.
- Chapter 18
- These outcasts, orosu, seeing that the new religion welcomed twins and such abominations, thought that it was possible that they would also be received.
- Umunna shows he is upset about how people are converting and abandoning their old ways. Igbo people take their culture seriously and it pains them to see others abandon it. The people abandoning it are seen as foolish.
- Chapter 23
- The six men ate nothing throughout that day and the next. They were not even given any water to drink, and they could not go out to urinate or go into the bush when they were pressed
- The narrator states how the village is so much different than usual. The missionaries have changed the culture drastically. Missionaries are wiping out some of the Igbo cultures.
- Chapter 25
- “That man was one of the greatest men in Umuofia. You drove him to kill himself; and now he will be buried like a dog…”
- The narrator states... This shows that Christianism was appealing to some villagers. It made them feel accepted and they wanted answers that made sense for the twins being killed and other senseless laws of the old Igbo tradition. Overall Christianism made more sense to some.
- The narrator states... The missionaries imprisoned some of the tribesmen and abused them. They have no respect for them or their culture. They are forcefully converting some.
- Obierika is mad because the missionaries drove Okonkwo to kill himself. Okonkwo was highly respected and now since he killed himself he will be buried like a dog. The missionaries did more harm than good.
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