TFA+Journal+-MJK6

End of Part II April 12,2010

Paragraph of Text-to-Text/Self/World Connection

a. Text to World Connection

There has been similarities s among the impacts and people’s reaction on the new religion when they started to arrive in Korea as well as Mbanta. In Chosun dynasty, Koreans were interested in to the new accepted idea of believing new religion, which was Catholic. Indeed, they were lenient toward churches, meaning that they allowed preachers to build Church and spread their wordings of Bible to their nations. Thus, it appeared to resemble people in Mbanta’s image. By seeing the fact that “the arrival of the missionaries had caused a considerable stir in the village of Mbanta (144), they, too, seemed to be interested in the new belief. Moreover, they did not do any harm to the white man and even allow the missionaries to set up their church in Evil forest although it the place where people abandon mentally illed people and twin. Two communities’ behavior toward the settlement of the new faith was not only comparable, its effect on them was also comparable. [Patter #9] The tangible examples were how the small number individuals in two populations slightly altered part of their conventional beliefs and further behavior as well. For instance, the woman named Nneka, who had constantly bore twin, moved to the church in order to save her children; this is huge impact of the new religion since the three lives have been saved from absurd custom of abandoning the twins for offerings to their Gods.Also, some of the villagers started to have misgiving toward their god, who should’ve taken her twins but did not appear even in the Evil Forest. Similar to such situation, people, living in Chosun dynasty, also slightly changed their tradition. The great example is offering an education to women as well. Before the new arising faith encountered Chosun, there has been strong sexism; the women were inferior to man, so they did not have right to be educated. However, Christian missionaries found it as an absurd since their belief forbid gender prejuidice. As a result, they instruct the writings, religion, and so on. By comparing some of the aspects and happenings that took place when the new religion was first introduced to two places, I realized how the new arising thoughts could affect human being.

b) Paragraph looking at the character of Okonkwo in Part II - is he changing? same person we saw in Part I?

Okonkwo does not seemed to be reshaping his personality as time passes. By seeing the fact that he hasn’t been able to control his anger and think in a mature way, he is same, unchangeable Okonkwo. The tangible example, depicting about his permanent premature character, appeared when he was enraged by Nwoye’s, his son’s, visit to Church. Similar to the presence of past Okonkwo, he brutally beat his son up; if his uncle did not restrain him from hitting Nwoye, his son might have killed due to his uncontrollable rage. This reminded instance where he beat his wife. On top of that, his well-known nickname was “Roaring flame”, indicating his inability to manage his anger. Until now, he was like a six year old child, who does not know how to think before he carries out an action. If he modified his character trait, he might have at least calm down and attempted to have a conversation. Not only that, instead of blaming and swearing Nwoye due to his action of “abandoning his ancestor (153) for resembling Unoko (Okonkwo’s father), he would’ve doubted his raising method in case. These clear evidences proved that Okonkwo did not show any of the change, but keep reminding himself as fearless and wise man.

c) Interpretive/Evaluative Question related to one of your two paragraphs for this journal entry DON'T FORGET - You also have to use Sentence Pattern 9 in one of your two paragraphs and put it in bold/underline or some other format so that it's easily distinguishable from the rest of your paragraph.


 * What would be your reaction if one of villagers from Umuofia came and preach about their religion, such as Anni?
 * What were the reasons why missionaries could be alive in Evil Forest?
 * How did Christianity effect Igbo culture?
 * Why do you think that Okonkwo threw a big party before he leave Mbanta?