chapter+15-19+JH

1) People tend to keep different thoughts and different perspectives and it is right to respect one another's individual point of views. While reading these chapters I felt quite angry about the way the white men were approaching. It's not that they were rude or anything to the Ibo people, but I personally thought this was too much to bite off at once. Just forcing it in is bound to cause side effects, and it did. Just as Nwoye ran off to join the Christians, despite his father, many families were probably ruined because of this. The family bonds would have been broken and there would be a huge disorder in the society. In this way, I thought the approach was a bit hard on the society. I could really relate to myself and my experience from Brunei. Not many people are aware of the country Brunei. Brunei is a small Islamic country and I have barely even heard of the country when I first set my foot in that country. I pretty much had no idea about the country that I was going to live in for about 3 years. Everything was a mystery to me. I was especially confused since the time I arrived there was the about the time of Ramadan. Ramadan is this event where Muslims fast from dawn to evening to restrain themselves from ill-natured actions, aiming to gain patience and spirituality. I did not understand anything about their culture and it was all a big question to me. I kind of looked down on them and questioned them. I thought that I shouldn't be shaken by their influence and I shouldn't care about them because I'm me and they're them. But as time passed, I realized I was wrong. I wasn't respecting them and I wasn't approaching them the right way. I soon changed my attitude and accepted the fact they are just different and I was here to learn about them and to learn to understand them, not to question them and make them feel uneasy. Therefore, I learned to understand the difference between me and them and accept them as they are, and to get my thoughts through to them. **__I wish that someday, everyone would be able to stand hand in hand in love, I wish that we could all learn to understand one another and to embrace them, I wish that respect would exist between every cultures.__**

2) I thought Okonkwo's character would've changed quite a lot after all the shame he went through, however, I didn't feel that much of a difference in his quality from part 1 through these chapters. He is still trying to stay strong and manly, hiding the weakness and soft side deep inside of him. But I kind of feel that he is still tranforming little by little. It just doesn't happen in a blink of an eye since he had been pushing it down for such a long time.

3) How should the church approach in order to be able to communicate heart-to-heart with the Ibo people?