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= Chapters 7 - 8 =


 * Text to World Connection**

In chapter seven, the part of when Okonkwo tells Ikemefuna and Nwoye stories of bloodshed and war but Nwoye still loves and prefers the stories his mother told him when he was a boy reminds me of the world I live in with many people that I know of who are forced to do something that they don't really want to and prefer to do something they actually want to. Nwoye is more accustomed to the happy stories his mother used to tell him and likes them better than the more manly stories he now has to endure while in his father's presence. I know, from I have been told form many of my friends and classmates, that their parents force them to work hard to be successful in school and go to a very good college to become a successful adult with a good job, like a doctor, a lawyer, or a technician. On the other hand, their kid may not oppose to their force and do as they say, but on the inside they really want to do other things with their life and be something else, like an artist or an athlete. In a way, Nwoye's preference for his mother's stories but has to sit and listen to Okonwo's, is like my friends' passions bottled up inside them because they are ordered to make something else of their life by their own parents.


 * Closely Read Paragraph**

One of the men behind him cleared his throat. Ikemefuna looked back, and the man growled at him to go on and not stand looking back. The way he said it sent cold fear down Ikemefuna's back. His hands trembled vaguely on the black pot he carried. Why had Okonkwo withdrawn to the rear? Ikemefuna felt his legs melting under him. And he was afraid to look back.


 * Question!**

If parents really love their kids and will always believe in them, why won't they believe in the fact that their kid will do as good in being, for example a garbage man, as also as a doctor?