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**March 16, 210 (HW)**
Journal Entry #1 The very first two chapters in Things Fall Apart highlights about the main character’s reputation in Umuofia; the reason behind his hatred feeling toward his father; brief explanation about Umuofia.Not only that, I was able to notice some of Okonkwo’s (protagonist) characteristic. He was hardworking, fearsome, courageous man. This tends to be good character traits, but i think he crossed the line of working hard, being fearful figure to others. It is because of the fact that he utilized violence for teaching his offspring about ways of being similar to him. For instance, he has been constantly “nagging and beating” his lazy son. Although his son was inactive on labouring, he should rather used other methods to correct him, than continually using inhumane punishment. This inspires my prediction to be his death, at the end of the future by seeing the fact that he should be punished under his behavior of hurting others.Beside from his brutal personality, I had a misunderstanding on why the people afraid of Umuofia, the village that he has lived. I understood the part where it said that it was because of its strong military power, but the next explanation seemed absurd. It explained that the “potential war medicine” was old woman with one leg, who hops during the war. I was in question of the fact why people were afraid of her since she appears to not harm anybody. Moreover, these feelings and question from the book has interested me a lot.