By reading Things Fall Apart, it made me realize how much different the African culture is from the American culture. I knew the two cultures were not the same. I was very surprised at the way they perform ceremonies, and the reason they had the ceremonies, their beliefs as far as religion goes, the stories that were handed down from generation to generation that were told to taught lessons in life, and not to mention the proverbs.
             The main characters in this story were Okonkwo, his wives, and children, and a very good friend to Okonkwo, Obierika. Okonkwo was a husband to three, a father of many, a wealthy farmer, and a wrestler who was well known through out the nine villages of Umuofia. Growing up, Okonkwo's father Unoka was a failure, he was poor and he was hardly able to feed his family, he was a loafer and he never paid off his debts in fact, he when he died he still owed money. Okonkwo was not pleased with his father, and he was the opposite of him when he grew up.
             In the Ibo tribe, conversation means a lot, and "proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten" (Pg. 7). They were also feared by many neighbors, they were powerful in war, magic, medicine man, and it's priests. There most potent war medicine was called agadi-nwayi meaning old woman the most active ingredient in the medicine was said to be an old woman with one leg.
             There was an Oracle, Agbala woman, or men who had no title, who the people consulted, they came when they had disputes with neighbors, to discover what the future had in store, and to speak with spirit of their departed fathers. Each person in the village had a chi or a personal god, which I think is suppose to be like a conscience.
             Usually in their village whenever they consult someone, or come to visit someone, they always bring kola nuts to chew and drink palm-wine from a drinking horn. Yam was the main source of food in the Ibo tribe. Yam, the king of crops...