Journal Pages

Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008

Page: 173

Quote: "I wish she were a boy," Okonkwo thought within himself. She understood things so perfectly. Who else among his children could have read his thoughts so well?

Every day as Enzima grew up, Okonkwo wished with all his heart she were a boy. She understood things so perfectly, and she read his thoughts. If she were a boy, she would be the perfect son. He could teach her things, and she would have a title of some sort. She had been through a lot, and she had overcome many things. Enzima was intelligent for her age, and she understood things in such different ways. She was wise beyond her years her mother had once said. Enzima had a different way of thinking, she looked through things with a different perspective. Okonkwo wished she were a boy, because girls were treated like dogs, and all that intelligence would go to waste. He wished the best for his daughter, but not all fathers could for the future was not set in stone.

Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008

Page: 179

Quote: "There are no other gods," said Mr. Brown. "Chukwu is the only God and all others are false. You carve a piece of wood-- like that one, and you call it a god. But it is still a piece of wood."

This quote I found impudent. It is quite rude to put it so bluntly that other people's gods are false, and there is only one god. He says that they carve a piece of wood and call it god, when it's still a piece of wood. Mr. Brown does not have an open mind, when he could link the two religions together. He could see that they have the same basis of thinking, and that putting other people's opinions down. You must be sincere and filled with empathy in order to understand others. You can't just state that your thoughts and traditions are true, and that other's are false. The way that Mr. Brown's clockwork works, is fast and loud. He cannot just put others down in order to attain converts. He should have found another way to achieve great things.