TFA+Journal+-+MJK+3

April 1st, 2010

Journal #3

1.Paragraph of Text-to-Text: The content, regarding Ikemefuna’s as well as the baby twins’ death - it was the incident that Nwoye saw in the course of previous cropping season- reminded me of one of the well known Korean folk tale, The Faithful Daughter Shim Chung. It highlights about dutiful girl’s sacrifice, actually suicide, for his blind father to gain vision ; the monk suggested that her father could open his eyes through offering three sacks of rice, but she was poor; Thus, she jumped into the sea for obtaining the sufficient amount of things offered in sacrifice. Although she was not forced, unlike Ikemefuna and baby twins, the custom of murdering one for the sake of religious figure or god’s command appeared to be similar. Indeed, three figures in the texts were somehow juvenile. In other words, the story mostly made sacrifice out of naive figures. By seeing such, I knew that world in the past or two countries at least believed in strong superstition of killing several human as contribution to their gods may be beneficial. This showed how human in the past liked to rely and worship the gods that may be a real or not.

2. Do a close reading of one paragraph coming from any of the chapters we've read somehow; post that somehow (diigo, scanned image, voice thread, or other option)



3. An interpretive or evaluative question stemming from the first paragraph of your journal or your close reading activity.

Was Okonkwo depressed because of the fact that he killed a man or was it because he murdered the son like person? Did Okonkwo love Ikemefuna? Why or Why not? Does this quote “never yet come across them” on p.62 meant that Nwoye had never seen the dead twins? What was the reason why baby twins are put into earthenware? Are the people living in society that kills one as an offering to their god evil? Why do you think that Nwoye did not do anything for Ikemefuna to avoid his planned death?