Journal Entery

Date: July 29, 2007

Entery Number: 19

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pgs. 73-74

I find it really interesting how at the end of chapter eight it starts forshadowing, a little bit, what is going to happen in the future. The Obierika and his family and his daughter's new family and Okonkwo were talking about Abame and Aninta and how titled men climb their trees and pound foo-foo for their wives instead of the other way around. They had backwards customs and where fools in a way which is what leads to their destruction later on; because of their foolishness. Obierika's oldest brother was talking about the customes of Abame and Aninta and said, "That is very bad...But what is good in one place is bad in another place." This kind of forshadows the white man and some of the misunderstandings. The white man did not understand the ways of the Igbo and thought it was bad and thought their ways were good. While the Igbo thought their ways were good and the white man's ways bad. They just came for two different places and cultures, that's all. And then they go on to talk about white men who were said to have no toes. None of the men had ever seen a white man before. That again forshadows the white man who were to come in the future. It's really quite interesting.