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I can relate to this in the way that my friends go out many times a week and have fun. I am just like Nnadi. I work on wonderful IB homework and stay at home instead of being able to enjoy the so-called "best years of my life."
13. "The new yam festival was thus an occasion for joy throughout Umuofia."
Pg. 37 paragraph 2
This seems like a form of Thanksgiving mixed with New Year's. Throughout the book, the main focus is on crops, (the biggest crop being yams). Why do yams play such a big part in the story? Are there other major crops too? Yams are not that big of a deal in the United States, and we are successful with plantations of a wide variety of different crops.
14. "But somehow Okonkwo could never become enthusiastic over feasts as most people."
Pg. 37 paragraph 3
This quote can be related to me. When I was much younger, I used to be so excited about Christmas and Halloween and my birthday. Now, I feel that I am too mature to care about Christmas and my birthday, or any other holiday that I used to enjoy. I often feel very embarrassed when I celebrate special occasions or receive gifts, even when it is appropriate to do …show more content…
I find that very fascinating. I've never really wondered what a banana grew from, but I never imagined that such a thing as a banana tree existed. I would really really like to see a banana tree someday in the near future.
16. "My eyelid is twitching"
"That means you will see something."
Pg. 41 paragraph 1
This is completely dumb logic. The crazy ideas and stupid wives tales in this book really infuriate me to a level that is almost unbearable. If your eye twitches, then you have just had a muscle spasm, that's it. You're not going to see anything spectacular. Praying to idols doesn't make plants grow. EVER. Things don't work that way. They never have and they never ever will. This author and this whole story in general are so ludicrous. I find it absolutely obnoxious.
17. "And then Nkechi came in, bringing the third dish."
Pg. 45 paragraph 4
Okonkwo is a complete slob. He treats his wives and children terribly, but yet he still finds it appropriate for them to work for him all of the time and for them to all slave in the kitchen everyday and every night. He only needs one dinner. It would be more sensible for the wives to switch off on cooking days instead of all three women preparing dinner every single
13. "The new yam festival was thus an occasion for joy throughout Umuofia."
Pg. 37 paragraph 2
This seems like a form of Thanksgiving mixed with New Year's. Throughout the book, the main focus is on crops, (the biggest crop being yams). Why do yams play such a big part in the story? Are there other major crops too? Yams are not that big of a deal in the United States, and we are successful with plantations of a wide variety of different crops.
14. "But somehow Okonkwo could never become enthusiastic over feasts as most people."
Pg. 37 paragraph 3
This quote can be related to me. When I was much younger, I used to be so excited about Christmas and Halloween and my birthday. Now, I feel that I am too mature to care about Christmas and my birthday, or any other holiday that I used to enjoy. I often feel very embarrassed when I celebrate special occasions or receive gifts, even when it is appropriate to do …show more content…
I find that very fascinating. I've never really wondered what a banana grew from, but I never imagined that such a thing as a banana tree existed. I would really really like to see a banana tree someday in the near future.
16. "My eyelid is twitching"
"That means you will see something."
Pg. 41 paragraph 1
This is completely dumb logic. The crazy ideas and stupid wives tales in this book really infuriate me to a level that is almost unbearable. If your eye twitches, then you have just had a muscle spasm, that's it. You're not going to see anything spectacular. Praying to idols doesn't make plants grow. EVER. Things don't work that way. They never have and they never ever will. This author and this whole story in general are so ludicrous. I find it absolutely obnoxious.
17. "And then Nkechi came in, bringing the third dish."
Pg. 45 paragraph 4
Okonkwo is a complete slob. He treats his wives and children terribly, but yet he still finds it appropriate for them to work for him all of the time and for them to all slave in the kitchen everyday and every night. He only needs one dinner. It would be more sensible for the wives to switch off on cooking days instead of all three women preparing dinner every single