Answer on Question: Trace the Chronology of the Ibo people's respones......

The first thing mentioned about white people was in the story, where the Ibo joked it was just the Leper. During the first couple of years in exile, white people show up for the fist time, and the people of Abame act with fear, and kills the man and the tribe itself gets destroyed. Then while at Mbanta, the first missionaries come to both Ummofia and Mbanta. At Ummofia the first Reverend is Mr. Brown, how leaves a decent impression on the Ibo by helping the clan and doesn’t try to openly convert them. Then Mr. Brown gets sick and has to leave. A new reverend comes to the town, and his name is Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith believes that every thing the Ibo people do is false and bad, so he sullies the white man reputation to the tribe. From then on the Ibo people do not like the white men in general, and most regret that the clan let the white men set up in the first place. For the white men, they believe the Ibo people are savage, while missionaries see them as lost souls. These views have two major results. They are:
1, which is that the majority of the white people think the Ibo are savages, so are not treated equally or in most cases as fair.
2, the missionaries try to reguide, as they put it, the Ibo people, however, some of the ways the priests use to convert to not appeal to the Ibo people, reinforcing the white mens thoughts on how the Ibo are savages.
The last is that the British view most of the Africans and their way of life during this time as irrelevant, as long the tribes either convert or have peaceful transactions with the commonwealth colonies. If they get in the way, the local forces will not hesitate to attack and destroy any one of the tribes, such as the Abame.

Q's on Okonkwo not understanding female virtues vs. male virtues

Okonkwo refuses to acknowledge when he regretted beating one of the wives, because if he had to ackowledge he didi wrong, he would have to apologize, which he views weak. Also when he comments that Ezinma should have been a man, he is oblivious and/or refuses to ackwoledge the Female virtues of Ezinma and only acknowledges the Manly virtues in her. One time when he did show a woman virtue by his standards was when he worried about Ezinma being taken by Chielo. After this he repeatedly came to the cave entrance, waiting nervousloy for his wife that chased after the priestess and Ezinma. This can create problems for many reasons. For example towards his family, espiacially Nwoye, which is beaten and punished regualary. This conflict in my opinion was what made up Nwoye’s decision to convert and leave his family. With the Christians, even though he origanly didn’t like them, made him despise them because: A, that they are all about peace and kindness, which he doesn’t like and will accept about any one, including the Osu. And : B, Nwoye left him and Okonkwo refused to acknowledge that it was his ignorance of his female virtues that made him leave. Also on any regular occasion he will take the more violent route to appear more manly.

Thoughts on Qs on Thur.

I think that Okonkwo is not a very nice person, to say the least. I think this because of a lot of examples. One includes when he tried to shoot his second wife simply because that she said he did not have a good shoot. While this turned out to be partly true, He does not need to try to shoot his wife to prove it. Another example is when he killed Ikemefuna. Even when he was warned not to go, Okonkwo still went. What that chapter makes me not like him is that he was the one to kill poor Ikemefuna. What makes me disturbed is that Ikemefuna saw Okonkwo as a father, So he ofcourse ran to Okonkwo when the intended blow missed, immediately Okonkwo butchered Ikemefuna down. The last thing is the general treatment of his wives and children. In multiple parts of the book, Okonkwo would beat up his wives for not cooking correctly, cutting the leaves when he did not want them cut, really for just about anything. For the kids, if they cried, messed up, did not do something properely are reasons that he beat up his kids. Epsiacally Nwoye which his father viewed him as weak and therefore beat him up about anything. Those are the main reasons that I personally don’t like Okonkwo in the book “Things Fall Apart.