Friday, November 23, 2012

Okonwo's Kids

Ezinma is Ekwefi's only daughter and Okonkwo is her father. Okonkwo wishes over and over again that she was a boy because he understands him without him telling her. Ezinma does everything Okonkwo tells her. He sees her as the perfect child. But when it comes to Nwoye he thinks differently. He sees Nwoye as womanly. Nwoye became quite inseparable  from him because he seemed to know everything. He could fashion out flutes from bamboo stems and even from the elephant grass.  He also knew the names of all the birds and could set clever traps for the little bush rodents. And he knew which trees made the strongest bows. But Okonkwo thinks he is womanly and must take after his father. But to me Nwoye seems very intelligent and smart I would be happy to claim him as my child if he was. But maybe its different where they are from. And his other "child" Ikemefuna, who Okonkwo took in and even Nwoye's mother treated him as her own. Okonkwo like Ikemefuna better than Nwoye. When Okonkwo went to big village meetings and ancestral feast he allowed Ikemefuna to join him. But I truly think that he shouldn't love one child more than the other. he should love them all equally so they won't feel down about themselves or they won't feel as they aren't trying hard enough.

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