Tuesday, September 23, 2008
things fall apart all the time in this book
The white men bring bad attitudes to the Ibo people who don't convert to their religion. This is present when a man kills twin babies and is sent to prison for it. There in the prison they beat him and make him do manual labor. The relationship to the people that convert is different and they are treated well and get to go to school. The British people view the Ibo people as ignorant and do not have the right religion that they are worshipping to. They feel this way because they don't have the same customs as they do. It is shown when Mr. Brown and Akunna try to persuade each other that their religion is better. Mr. Smith however was a different story and thought that the Ibo people were just plain evil and all he wanted to do is get rid of the Ibo ways of life. He shows this when he says that he thinks black and white and black is evil. Also the message people which also guard the prison treat the Ibo people with the most disrespect out of anyone and are constantly bringing pain and misfortune into the lives of the prisoners. This i bad because the Ibo people don't even know that they are committing crimes because they are just practicing their religion. Also the Ibo people can not understand the British because they do not speak their native tongue.
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