Journal Pages

Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008

Page: 200

Quote: "Worthy men are no more," Okonkwo sighed as he remembered those days.

This quote struck sadness. Okonkwo stated that worthy men are no more, that they were in the days of before. It is nostalgia that powers most melancholy, and nostalgia alone. In Okonkwo's clan, men were converting to other religions and leaving their families. They were abandoning all that they knew, so that they may find something they've been looking for. There were no more worthy men in the clan. They all threw their titles away and converted to Catholicism. The worthy men were dying or being traitorous. The dying died well, and the traitors would die miserably.

Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008

Page: 203

Quote: "All our gods are weeping. Idemili is weeping, Ogwugwu is weeping, Agbala is weeping, and all the others." 

This quote invoked thought. All the gods were weeping, and the converts and missionaries were the cause of it. The gods were left powerless as the Catholics took over. They changed the government, and people. They took men of title and children from families. They broke friendships, and they were not holding back. The gods were weeping because their reign was coming to an end. The Catholics were gaining more control each day, and the gods had no say. They could no longer smite the nonbelievers, or kill out of tradition. Customs were abandoned, and the gods were weeping terribly.