Tuesday, January 29, 2008
TFA Chapter 12
This Chapter starts out with a man named Obierika. Obierika is one of Okonkwo's friends, and his daughter is getting married. This chapter mainly deals with what goes on during the celebration of someone getting married. The Priestess puts Enzima on Ekwefi's bed in the morning, I didn't really know what to think about that, because I don't know what happened with the two of them the night before, but anyways ... Okonkwo asks who is cooking his meal. So once again, he keeps treating his wives like crap and bosses them around. While all the women were cooking and preparing for the wedding they heard a chant. They all ran out of the huts and saw a cow that got loose by a child. The next day all of the relatives and friends came to the brides house. She got 50 pots of wine. The whole celebration was just like a huge feast. In a way their weddings and ours are basically the same. Family and friends from all around get together, you eat a big meal, you get gifts, except we usually get other things other than wine. This chapter was pretty interesting, because now you can see what a happy moment in their life looks like, instead of being beaten by your husband and such.
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I wish that we knew what happened that night with Ezinma and Chielo. I don't know if we will find out. I agree with you about this chapter. I wish that more happy stuff happened in this book, but I guess that maybe not very much happy stuff happens there. I was wondering did you think the cow thing was random?
I still can not believe that the marriages are arranged. It was not to long ago that they were still aranged but that is just wierd. I could not immagine not knowing my wife until our marriage.
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