Homework 2/14--2/15

4th period... SEE ME!!!! I did not give you your homework questions!~ they will be posted at the end of this!

--Outline due Tuesday, Feb 19
--Read Things Fall Apart chapters 14-16
--Complete the journal questions for TFA 14-16

Chapter Fourteen
- In Part Two, how have things begun to fall apart?
- Is Okonkwo's exile in Mbanta is more than a personal disaster? How so?
-What is the significance of comparing Okonkwo to a fish out of water?
- How does Okonkwo's lack of understanding of the importance of women reflect on him?
Chapter Fifteen
-How does the story of the destruction of Abame summarize the experience of colonization?
-Did the people of Abame have good insight into the significance of the arrival of the whites?
-How the Africans treat the white man's language?
-How did white colonizers treat African languages?
-What sorts of stories had Okonkwo heard about white men before?
Chapter Sixteen
-The British followed a policy in their colonizing efforts of designating local "leaders" to administer the lower levels of their empire. If the men they chose were not the real leaders, was this an effective policy? Explain.
-Who have the missionaries designated as their contact man? How is this choice significant?
-Why do you think Nwoye has become a Christian?
-How does Achebe inverts the traditional dialect humor of Europeans which satirizes the inability of natives to speak proper English?
-What is the first act of the missionaries which evokes a positive response in some of the Ibo?
-Achebe focuses on the doctrine of the Trinity, the notoriously least logical and most paradoxical basic belief in Christianity. How does this belief undermine the missionaries' attempts to discredit the traditional religion?