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a) Paragraph of Text-to-Text/Self/World Connection I related Part two stories to world's history when some religions were persecuted and spread through people secretly. In the past, there were many religions which were banned to spread along to people because of the revolutionary ideas, democratic movements and human rights. For example, the government killed or punished the people whom believed in religion that opposed the monarch or any governmental systems. These also led to some leaders deciding to abolish the religion by killing everyone such as Hitler killing the Hindu society. But I think that even if people try to ban the ideas to stop from spreading, it is all waste of efforts because people believe and rely on it anyways. This is also shown in the book which people started to convert to Christians even thought they thought it was useless at first.

b) Paragraph looking at the character of Okonkwo in Part II - is he changing? same person we saw in Part I? I don't think that Okonkwo has changed his characteristics of violent, pride and abrupt dicisions. I think he still does the actions that he will regret later without controlling his temper. For example, he grabbed Nwoye's neck and made him choked when he noticed that Nwoye has converted to Christians. These actions are also related to his murder of Ikemefuna who was very precious to him but was too late when he noticed that. His love of his sons, rather or not it was mixed with his blood, he wanted them to become a successful man who can deal and preseve the traditions and culture of Igbo, which he and his father already failed to. Even though his temper and violence was still with him, he became to learn about the importance of family relationship and their gratitude of serving him well. This is shown when he thanks his kinsmen by helding a festival who had made Okonkwo to stay on their house for 7 years, providing him a work, shelter and lessons.

c) Interpretive/Evaluative Question related to one of your two paragraphs for this journal entry What is the reason why Nwoye converted to Christianity?

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.