07 August 2012
Helplessness
When I was reading the novel I found a re-occuring theme of helpnessness displayed through okonkwo, and his clan members. The reason I say they were helpless is because as the novel started out by displaying okonkwo's childhood, Ii felt that his father seemed like a pretty helpless man, as he was in debt and unable to provide for his family. I then saw helplessness again later in the novel when the christian missionaries came to the village and began colinization, the helplessness I saw was from the nigerians. The reason I say this is because they kept relying on their mystical gods to protect them from change brought upon by the white intruders. They sent the missionaries into their "evil forest" to build their church thinking it would bring terror to them, but then were disappointed to see them thriving. Eventually when nigerians began to start even converting it ultimately showed helplessness.
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I noticed that too. It seemed like the Nigerians were dependent on the gods to help them with every situation and difficulty they faced. The Nigerian people were not strong and independent and that is why some ended up converting to Christianity. They were lost and confused and the missionaries had an influence on them.
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