Heroes of tomorrow

A heroe for the humanity is a person who saves or help people when they are struggling. They are fabulous because they make a better world and we sometimes see heroes everyday. They do not only exist in movies, series or that type of stuff. People that help others, is people that expect nothing in return, they just have the need of helping others because they just want that. As we also see in movies, the real life heroes also have superpowers, this superpowers are honesty, empathy and kindness.

An example of a superhero, is the missionary people that go and help others to believe in God and in the church. these people have been always so kind and they also have a lot of empathy for the people that dont have enough things to live. Just because of that, the missionaries bring them food, clothes, and simpathy. When missionaries go there, they bright these people's world by just showing there and doing activities with them. These people are an example for the world, because they go there without getting anything in return and that is amazing, they bright up other poeple's world and they feel satisfied by it. The things the missionaries do, make us believe that there still is hope in the world for a better humanity. The passion for helping other people and make them belueve in something should be in all of us, but now there is just a few of us that do it.

By the pictures I have seen of the missionaries doing this job, I always cry and I always say that my goal is to go there and make people happy for once. When I go to the social service it is something similar because I go there and talk to the old people, make them smile and I always feel good about it. People like the missionary group, should encourage other people to do it, it is one week of activities and one week to make someone's life happier. I have been touched by the pictures I saw, and also because seeing all the faces smiling is a great feeling for everybody. We should all take the example of these people, because they are a role model for everybody; also we should be thinking that we can be the next one to save someone's life or bright someone's day.

Quote

''Expectation is the root of all heartache''.-William Shakespeare

This quote means that if you have high expectations about things or people you will be dissappointed because sometimes not everything turns out as you want, in my opinion sometimes you have to be wise and don't expect anything from anyone; because when you do expect things from people they usually let you down and that leads you to get dissapointed about people.


Why do I relate to this quote?
I feel related to this quote because I have been in situations where friends or family let me down by saying bad things to me, one example of why I am related to this quote could be when I fought with my best friend about a year ago; it was because she was complaining about my personality and about how it was, I got stressed and disappointed because I had higher expectations about her being my best friend and being there for me no matter what, it was hard in the beggining when we did not talk to each other in a whole summer just because our pride was bigger than our friendship, and I hated that; after that big fight I stopped trusting people like I used to, just because I think that anyone should depend on other person and I also think that no one should have a lot of expectations about someone.


REFERENCES:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/william_shakespeare.html#bQMhwLXWp4OCqEi4.99

Summary part II Things Fall Apart

Okonkwo moved to his mother's land because he was exiled from Umuofia for seven years. He is going to participate in Uchendu's son wedding and he feels sure about being in the ceremony .He starts helping Uchendu with the farm to plant some seeds but Uchendu does not feel that Okonkwo was working like he used to before. One day Uchendu reunites all the family to talk, he starts saying Okonkwo that when a man stays on it's fatherland is because life has been good, but he says that otherwise, in motherland, life is tougher. After the long talk Uchendo says to him that he also had a difficult life but that he is still living though.

During the second year of Okonkwo's exile, Obierika went there and he brought cowries from the sell of Okonkwo's yams; he also promised him that he would be bringing money every year. He told the men about the arrival of the white men to Abame. After that Uchendo goes with Mother Kite and he tells her a story that it's metaphore is that it is wrong to kill a man that doesn't say anything.

Then again, Obierika visits him but now it is on the third year of his exile; he goes there and tells Okonkwo about Nwoye being with some white men, but Okonkwo doesn't want to talk about that because maybe he feels ashamed about it. After this, some missionaries arrive in Mbanta and all they want is a piece of land. As requested, the villagers give them the Evil Forest but they were hoping that they would die in less than 28 days but that never occurs. Okonkwo killed Nwoye when he got home, he killed his son because he felt that Nwoye was like his father, he didn't want that so he took his life.

The outcast members of the clan are converts and the efulefu refuse them so Mr. Kiaga went to talk with the other converts; he finally convinced them about staying with the church. After that, a convert killed the sacred royal python and that is a huge crime in Igbo culture. Okonkwo does not agree with the decision the man took about ostracizing them, he feels that Mbanta is a really weak clan. The problem solved when the one who killed the sacred royal python is dead.

Okonkwo wants to make a feast before he returns to Umofia for Mbanta people because he says that they were nice and kind people for receiving him so good. After that the elders gave a speech about Okonkwo's attitude and finally they thanked him; also they mentioned their being worried about young generations just because young generations don't act as one anymore.


Achebe, C. (1994) Things Fall Apart . New York: Anchor Books

The story of Mother Kite

The story is about Mother Kite sending her daughter for food but she comes back with a duckling; Mother Kite tells little Kite that she had done a great work, but she also tells her that maybe the mother of the duckling would be worried because one person took the duckling away from her.
Little kite walked away and Mother Kite said to her that she must return the duckling to it's place, so she returned it, and she took a chick.
Mother Kite asks her: ''What did the mother of this chick do?'' and the little kite told her that the mother cried and cursed her.
Mother Kite said that they could eat the chick and finally they said that the men of Abame were such fools.
With this story Uchendu points out to never kill a man who says nothing.

Summary 6-13 Things Fall Apart

Ikemefuna is the new member of Okonkwo's family and she has been there for three years, and has a good relationship with all the family. One day Ezedu tells Okonkwo that Ikemefuna must be killed because the oracle said that. Suddenly they were walking home and a men attacked Ikemefuna, so he asked for help with Okonkwo but he did not want to feel weakness so he cuts the boy down.
When he is home, Nwoye sees him alone and kind of depressed so in that moment he knows that his friend is dead and that was when he felt that something was breaking inside of him, he was feeling like he did with the twins in the woods.
Depression took power of Okonkwo, he stopped eating and the only thing he was drinking was palm wine all day. Some days passed and Obierika, Okonkwo's best friend, went there and argue with him about if it was right or not that he was involved in Ikemefuna's death.
Ezinma got really sick and everyone there was worried about her because she had been suffering a lot before this...nine of ten of the children she had, died very young. Just because she was sick Ekwefi took her of her during the illness, Okonkwo went there with an expert in medicine, he told her that Ogbanje was maybe tormenting them and that they had a wicked thing. They found the iyi-uwa and it helped Ezinma to get better and also with her problems.
There was a ceremony that almost everyone goes, and it is in the village; Chielo went so see Enzima so they go with Agabla to the mountains, Ekwefi was following them and Chielo takes her to bed, so Okonkwo was really worried about the stuff that was happening.
Time passed by and Okonkwo kills his son accidentally in the ceremony, they were having a fight but they didn't mean to shoot him; the ceremony was because Ezeudu died.
Killing someone from the clan was a crime against the earth goddess, so in Umuofia they tell Okonkwo to get out of there with his family for seven years, because of what he has done, Umuofia started killing Okonkwo's farm and burning his buildings.

Summary chapter 1-6 Things Fall Apart

There is a tribe named Umuofia and Okonkwo is the lader of this one, this character has 3 wives and 8 children. His father name was Unuoka, who used to play instruments very good and played the flute and had a band, but he died ten years ago, but even before he died he was very lazy. When Okonkwo's father died, he was recognized for being a good wrestler in all the nine villages.
One day in another village named Mbaino a murder about a girl happened so he went there to see what was happening, and after two days of being there he found out a girl and he took her with him the girl's name was Ikemefuna she was fifteen years old, he was scared when she started to live with them but when time passed by he was normal again and she was being part of the family.
Some time passed by and Okonkwo insulted a men just because the meeting that they were in, was just for men, so basically he was saying that the men was a girl.
The week of peace arrived so as it's name say in that week everybody is intended to do nothing and just be nice and kind to everyone but Okonkwo broke the rules so he was punished.
In the New Year Yam everyone was waiting for the new crops to grow; it was a really new experience to them.

REFERENCES: Chinua Achebe book (2013)

African Literature

African Literature

I would say that Africa has a complex literary story, an example of this are oral literatures; they have been in Africa for many centuries.

Between 2300-2100 a.c the first African Literature work was written; the oldest literature work was the "Memphite Declaration of Deities" . Abd Al-Rahman Al-Sadi was the first one to write an African History, and the name of this one is "History of Sudan".

They used to learn in a different way we learn nowadays, they used to learn with testimonies, riddles, stories and rituals and proverbs. 

There is a reason of why the Period of Colonization is called like that, and it is because the oral traditions and the written works were threatened by Christian ideas, and they were trying to destroy the primitive cultures. 1883 was an important year for African Literature, the first African Classic Analysis was written by Olive Schreiner and he called it "Story of African Form".

Leopald Sedar Senghor was a big influence in this time, he wanted to transform Africans in a political figure; and by that time (1930) african people used to speak french.

Another important character of African Literature is Chinua Achebe, because he wrote one of the most important novels of all the times, this one is called "Things Fall Apart" , this is a novel that still continues to be required reading the world over, also it has sold over twelve million copies and has been translated into more than fifty languages.

REFERENCES:

Literature notebook (2013)