In many of the stories that we have done this semester
             women are treated like dirt. They are used as slaves, they do nothing but
             chores, and they are uncared for by there husbands. Things Fall Apart,
             No one writes to the Colonel, Who Cares, The Shroud, and The
             Unwanted are all stories where men are strong and women are weak in
             all aspects of life. The authors of all these stories show us how women
             are only valued for there services, such as cooking , cleaning, and
             laundry which some are forced into doing, such as in the story Who
             Cares. Women are not only forced into doing chores, they're also forced
             into marriage. Chinua Achebe is the only author that assigns important
             roles to the women found in his story, but the women in his story are
             still treated with no respect at all.
             The women in Things Fall Apart are used primarily for chores
             around the house and for childbirth. The women in Okonkwo's tribe are
             seen as inferior in life, mind and body. Men are seen as strong beings,
             who have no emotion, no fear, and are eager to kill. After Okonkwo kills
             Ikemefuna he returns home feeling very distraught. "When did you
             become a shivering old woman," he asks himself, "you, who are known
             in all the nine villages for your valor in war? How can a man who has
             killed five men in battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to
             their number? Okonkwo you have become a woman indeed " He feels
             that he has become a woman because he is feeling remorse and sorrow
             over Ikemefuna's death. The main role of women in this society is for
             them to be good, loyal housewives. They're expected to look after
             children, clean, and have meals ready by the time their husbands return
             home. If they did not do all of their responsibilities their angry husbands
             often beat them. Okonkwo's tribe allows wife beating as it w...