Journal Entery

Date: July 8, 2007

Entery Number: 9

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pg. 43-44

Obiageli had been playing around while she was carrying her waterpot on her head and it accidentally fell off and broke into pieces. She thought it was funny and started to laugh. It was not until she got closer to the compound that she started to "cry". She then told her mother a totally made up story just so as she wouldn't get in trouble. I can understand not wanting to get in trouble but girls like her bug me a lot when they pull those types of things, especially if they have a strong reputation for getting out of things that they did on purpose. Obiageli didn't do it on purpose but it was her attitude when the damage had been done that really bugged me and then the lie she told. It's interesting though. Obiageli's little brothers were going to tell their mother the truth but Ikemefuna stopped them from telling. My question is why? For some reason Obiageli doesn't seem like a very nice girl. So why would he stand up for her if she knew better than not to be messing around like that and then told a lie to get out of being punished? I mean I can kind of understand since if she had told the true then Okonkwo surely would have beaten her and he does have a very strong hand, so I can see the banding together as children but she was being really dumb.