Journal+Entry+-+Things+Fall+Apart+(Sarah+B)

Journal #1: Chapter 1 ~ 2 During the first two chapter of When Things Fall Apart, the thing that left me hanging was about Ikemefuna. The narrator tells us that this boy was “ill-fated”. What happens to this boy? From the descriptions about Okonkwo, he seems like a serious man, who has no sympathy. Will there be a conflict between the new-comer and Okonkwo? In the book, there are some confusing bits about when they talk about traditional cultures, and use some words that I don’t understand (Umuofua kwenu), and I hope that further reading of the book will give me a better understanding later on. When the book said that Okonkwo drinks out of human heads, I was a bit grossed out. I thought that those were the kind of things that only existed in Hollywood, but guessing that this historical fiction is historically accurate, it may really exist!