DIRECTIONS: Write at least 3 paragraph response using 2 quotes only from Chinua Achebes book "Things Fall Apart". Each paragraph must begin with a topic topic sentence. Every paragraph must be 5 to 7 sentences at length. Be sure to organize your thoughts in clearly and separated by paragraphs. One paragraph should only have one topic except for the first.
At one point the author pronounced that, "Okonkwo had clearly washed his hands so he ate with kings and elders".
1. Explain how Unoka raised his son.
2. What created Okonkwo's overbearing perception and behavior of how a man should act and think?
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Marlon Andries 9-15-09
ReplyDeleteUnoka and his son Okonkwo was totally opposite of each other. He raised his son to be a strong wise man. He wa very popular and well respected by many who knew him. He was strong and took on the fiercest person in the village.
Okonkwo became agitated when it came to people who meant nothing to the village. He liked things to be simple and not complicated. What created Okonkwo's overbearing perception and behavior of how a man should act and think. Okonkwo had little patience when it came to slackers. He felt his father was the type of man that didn't careabout anything.
He felt that his father wasted time,energy and was very lazy. He didn't cherish life as he did. Okonkwo father drank, partied, and always was in debts to others. Never paying his debts because he felt it wasn;t inportant enough. He wanted to do what made him happiest
Carlos Reyes
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world history
Okonkwo did not like his father perhaps he had no patience. His fathers name is Unoka he was always lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow. Money was never something easy for them but when it did unoka immediately bought grounds of palm- wine he was also a punk which complete different from okonkwo. He played the flute in which he spent days with his band playing music. Money wasn’t so good for him in fact unoka owed fellow neighbors money in which he could not pay back . So basically as you can read he raised Okonkwo didn’t have the best child hood .
Oknokwo behavior is totally different from his father in fact he is just the opposite of his father unoka he is more ready for war isn’t afraid and also he is like a town celebrity so by seeing how his father was made him understand how a true man shall act and behave and think upon others. Yet again being ashamed of his father made a bettter succes so he shouldn’t be a failure and gain tittles at suc a young age oknokwo was reaching greatness.
In conclusion okonkwo wasn’t raised so good in his child hood life time begin ashamed of his dad and just no patience for a no life such as unoka . Oknokwo to me was feeding off it and became better then him to make him the young man he is to day . By me stating the few fact about Unoka u get the sense of how Oknokwo grew up and how his dad was if hes dad didn’t have any riches he didn’t . But that reflects on Oknokwo’s behavior to make him able to was his hands and eat with kings and elders
Zaniya Wilson
ReplyDeletePeriod 8
9/15/09
A man name Ibo use this saying,"When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk." What I think that means is that, when you see the sun it makes you jump for joy. The things that you know you can't do all the way you decide to do it any way for the simple fact that you are putting your mind to it. It also probably means to be the best you can be with all your ability."Don't tell me it cant be done,tell me how to do it!"Thats what I also believe it means.
Okonkwu also said a quote saying, "I survive this year I shall survive anything." That means that if he made one thing come true he can do anything else . What I think it is also is confidence.Okonkwu is very confident of what he sys other that his father. Him and father are two very different people.In the book Unoka was a failure.He always quit .Okonkwu never quit he always had high beliefs in his self .
Unoka raised his son Okonkwu to be a warrior.He was raised to be a wise man.Okonkwu was respected by everyone.He took on the best wrestler in hisz village.But Okonkwu did not like his father.He thought his fther was always lazy.Unoka was the top oppisite from his son.
ReplyDeleteOkonkwu didnt like things to be complicated.He had very lttle paitence when it came to men slacking or not doing to the best of their ability.He thought a man should never quit.When he created the overbearing preception on how a man should act or think, I think he was thinking about his father and how didnt want other men to be like him.He just wanted men to be responsible, take care of their business, and not slack around.
DENZEL LANGLEY 9/15/09
ReplyDeleteMR.AVERY/WORLD HISTORY
6th PERIOD
OKONKWO AND UNOKA ARE VERY DIFFERENT TO BE FATHER AND SON.UNOKA THE FATHER WAS LAZY AND IMPROVIDENT AND QUITE INCAPABLE OF THINKING ABOUT TOMORROW.HE OWED EVERYBODY MONEY,FROM A FEW COWRIES TO QUITE SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNTS.HE WAS TALL BUT VERY THIN.HE WAS GOOD ON THE FLUTE USUALLY OTHER PEOPLE FROM OTHER VILLAGES WANTED HIM AND HIS BAND TO PLAY FOR THEM.LATER WHEN HE GREW UP HE WAS A FAILURE.HE WAS POOR AND HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN HAD BARELY ENOUGH TO EAT.HE WAS ALSO A COWARD, HE COULDN'T EVEN BEAR THE SIGHT OF BLOOD.
OKONKWO THE SON BROUGHT HONOR TO HIS OWN VILLAGE BY BEATING AMALINZE THE CAT.HE WAS A GREAT WRESTLER WHO WAS UNBEATEN FOR SEVEN YEARS.HE WAS CALLED THE CAT BECAUSE HE ALWAYS LANDED ON HIS FEET AND HIS BACK WOULD NEVER TOUCH THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH.OKONKWO WAS SLIPPERY AS A FISH IN THE WATER.HE LATER GREW TALL AND HUGE.HE HAD THREE WIVES AND CHILDREN AND HE COULD STAND THE SIGHT OF BLOOD.
I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY CAME UP TO BE SO DIFFERENT WITH A COWARD FOR A FATHER AND A HERO FOR A SON.I BELEIVE THAT SOMETIMES THAT HAPPENS THAT THE SON ALWAYS WANTS TO BE BETTER THAN HIS FATHER.IT HAS HAPPENED FOR MANY YEARS AND IT WILL NEVER STOP, BUT TO ME I'M NOT SURE THAT THEY ARE TRULY FATHER AND SON.
Shimei Hawkins Sept. 15, 09
ReplyDeleteOkonkwo did not like his father. He didn't even have patiecence for him. His father name is Unoka. Unkoa was a very lazy man and he was also improvident. Money was the thing Unoka lacked of.
He owned all of his neighors money. His son on the other side was very wealthy. He had 2 arns full of yams and just married his third wife. The one thing his father did right was raised hime to be a warrior. he was agreat wrestler.
He took out the greatest wrestler of all time. People called him The Cat. He was unbeaten. They called him a cat because his back never touch the ground. Okonkwa believed in men taking care of busines and not slacking aroud.
Darelys Madé
ReplyDeleteWorld History
Period 8
Open-Ended Question
Unoka raised his son,Okonkwo, by being a strong man. Unoka was Okonkwo's father and they didn't like the same thing but the only thing they did was the opposite from each other. Okonkwo didn't want to be just like his father because his father owned too much money and was a failure. Also, he wanted to be somebody famous in life or to owned land. This remind me of how my mother raised me to be a smart, intellince, respectful, and helpful to people.
Okonkwo's overbearing perception and behavior of how a man should act and think was created when he notice he was a failure and a weakness. In the book,"things Fall Apart", on chapter 2, in page 13 it says that "Even as a little boy he had resented his father's failure and weakness, and even now he still remembered how he had suffered when a playmate had told him that his father was agbala." This proof that when Okonkwoknew he had to act and think as a man because he had to take responsibilities.
This remind me of the time I was turning a teenager or 13 years old. When I turned 13, my mother and my sister told me "that it was time for me to take responsibilities for the actions I did." Some actions I took was to make my decision to which High School I wanted to go to, what I want to be when I grow-up, and what will my decisions be when I'm in High School. I believe that this open ended question helps people think what will their actions be.
Christopher Keil
ReplyDeletePeriod 8
World History
In the story "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe Unoka was Okonkwo's father that had died ten years ago. Before his death he was lazy and improvident and was incapable about thinking of tomorrow. When money crossed his path he would immediately purshase gourds of palm-wine. Also he wasn't a men of war he would usally play the flute all the time,since he couldnt stand the sight of blood.
While his son Okonkwo was breaking world records no false start. He was well-known throughout the nine villages and even beyond, his fame came from personal achivements only. So he deffinantly "washed his hands so he ate with kings and elders". Also he has been to warm, he has brought back five heads and drank wine out of one of them.
To me I thought the phase Father and Son meant that you see the image of the father inside the son. But they were shockingly oppisite from each other,Unoka wanted everything to be mollifyed but the world is not like that.
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ReplyDeletematthew velazquez
ReplyDeleteperoid 8
world history
UNOKA was a very unwise man and was'nt very the best in handling himself.unoka was the father of okonkwo but had died ten years before in the story.unoka was very inresponsible and when it came to money he wasnt good at all in handling it.he raiseed a family and was a failure,he was poor and barely coudnt even support his family right.so okonkwo didnt had the best childhood,to which probably formed him to what made him the man he is in the story.
so in the story okonkwo in the story is a very well known wrestler and is known all over in nine tribes.when he was only eighteen he overthrew amalinze the cat man.and amalinze was named the cat man because his back would never touch the earth.so okonkwo had threw in one of the most fiercest fights since the founder of the town engaged in a sppirit of the world for seven days and nights.but while okonkwo growing up he had won fame as the greatest wrestlers in nine villages and and was very wealthy.
So i think okonkwo growing threw such a terrible childhood it grew him a great man.he became a very kniwn wrestler and grew up to be much wealthy and had more than few wives.so okonkwo was a complete different man than his father and was very different to how he handled himself and grew up in success.but okonkwo was a very dominate man but his life was dominated by fear and the fear of failure and of weakness which of like his father.
In the book “Things Fall Apart”, Chinua Achebe uses many interesting quotes. The main character’s dad, Unoka, has a big debt. When Okoye, a neighbor, pays a visit to Unoka, to ask for the money, he gets an intruiging response. Later on important harvesting doesn’t go so well. And when Okonkwo gets dissapointed, his dad Unoka is there to give him a little push.
ReplyDelete“…our elders say that the sun will rise on those who stand, before it shines on those who kneel under them. I shall pay my big debts first.” Those are Unoka’s words to his neighbor, who was asking to be returned the money borrowed. But Unoka wants to pay his big debts first. Just as the sun rays hit the standing person before it hits whoever is kneeling under. That is how I understood and relate the quote to Unoka’s character. His son Okonkwo grew up seeing all the debts never payed his dad had. That is probably the reason why he is ashamed of his father.
”Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride it is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.” This is what Unoka told his son when the important harvest went terribly bad. The harvest was as sad as a funeral. One man even got his cloth, tied it to a tree and hanged himself. I understood the quote as a movitation speech. To me this is what Unoka’s words meant to Okonwo, do not feel bad, because you have a proud heart. A heart that can pass obstacles such as failure because failure won’t ruin your pride.
Nyshayah Sulpha
ReplyDeleteWorld History
Period 6
The qoute" When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk" means that when people starts to talk about you and what your not doing thats when you want to get up on your feet and start your mission. I feel as though that means your fake beause why all of a sudden you want to start doing what your suppose to? If you haven't been doing it why start now? Don't you think its a bit to late? Don't try to impress someone because of words. Do it from the heart not just so people could look at you as doing the right thing. Now they are going to start thinking your fake because your only doing what you suppose to do when you get talked about.
The other qoute " The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them" means that those who doesn't really have it and try to do what their suppose to do will get more attention then those who have it, that dont do what theyre suppose to. I say that because you wouldnt really expect a poor person to do as much or maybe even more than a perosn thats rich. The poors be the ones to suceed. The rich people has mostly everything but they wont suceed or doesn't do what they should. Some rich people has no brains. You would think that the rich people would do better and be a good influence to the poors. The poors may think that the rich are more smarter than them because they have more. That isn't really true because all rich people like to do is buy up things. Success isn't their first priority. Which should be everyones number 1.
To conclude this, I would like to say that if you would like to do something, do it from the heart. Or like in the book dont borrow something and then don't pay it back. You would'nt like it if someone did that to you and you really dont know what they could be using the money for. Another thing is dont ever think that a rich person is more smarter than you or can over power you because you may be smarter than they are. You might even be the one to suceed.
Asia Moses
ReplyDeleteSeptember 15,2009
Period 8
Open-Ended
1. Unoka raised his son to be strong. He also raised him to be wise. Everyone respected Okonkwo. He was an great fighter. Not like his father he really didn't own anyone money.
2. Okonkwo's overbearing perception and behavior of how a man should act and think was created for when he had weakness and he was an failure. In the story " Things Fall APart" It says " Even as a little boy he had resented his father's failure and weakness, and even how he still remembered how he had suffered". This passage shows that he has weakness and is also an failure.
This connects to my life because i use to and still have problems with being weak. Just like Okankwo in the story.
Malcolm Crowder
ReplyDeleteSeptember 15,2009
Period 6
Unoka was a person to borrow money from his neighbors and not pay them back. Sometimes the wife and child of Unoka would normally go hungry since Unoka didnt always have money. Life seemed type hard for the family of Unoka. Unoka didnt like blood shed but what he did like in life was to play music.
Ukonkwo thought of his father as weak and a failure. Unkonko didnt want to be nothing lke his father since he thought of his father being weak. Ukonkwo had money to support his three wives and children.What i think this is raise your children better and support them so when they grow up they wont think of you as some type of a failure.
Takia Herrill
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In The Story Things Fall Apart You Will Never Think That Unoka Was The Father Of Okonkwo.Unoka Was a lazy,poor.falure,coward type man.Okonkwo had a good name for hiself and,wealthy.Unoka didnt raise his kids th besy way he could but he gave them the supplies they needed in like like food.Unoka never goy up and tryed to get money to pay his debt or make money of his own.I dont think it was the best thing to do because his kids may follow in his foot steps but this is why i think Okonkwo grew up the way he did to be a strong,nice,well known person
The main reason Okonkwo acted the way he did in lifewas because he dint wan to become anything like hi faher. Thats What created Okonkwo's overbearing perception and behavior of how a man should act and think.Okonkwo dosnt like his father becase he thinks that is not how a man suppose to act,He Father Didnt do much in life.Okonko was awaay diffrent man then his father was.Okonkwo brought fame to him self by calling out cat to a fight witch Unoka couldnt do.This is why i think Okonkwo is the way he is about life,and dosnt fool around with it and take it as a joke.Unoka never thought about tomorrow and that was the first thing on his mind.When it says Okonkwo had clearly washed his hands so he ate with kings and elders" I think it says this because how well Okonkwo brought himself up he was treated different,better.Many pepole trusted or cared for him to where he started being treated like he was a king,elder just because the way he acted.Evey one knew he wasnt but he presented hisself as one
Allysa Alexander
ReplyDeleteMr.Avery
CAPS/World Hist.
Period 6
9.16.09.
Things Fall Apart OEQ
How Unoka raised his son wasnt the best he coulda done was a father. Unoka was lazy, and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow.And he would ask his neighbors for money but he would never play them back. So hes poor and he leaving him and his wife and kids with barely enough to eat.He left the kids to do the "work" to keep the income comming because Onoka wasnt do nothing other than drinking and piling up debt.
The thing or things that created Okonkwo's overbearing perception and behavior of how a man should think is alot of things. He saw how Onoka was a poor,lazy man who didnt really provide for his wife and kids. He knew that a man doesnt do that . Okonkwo was basically being a father figure to his other siblings and mom also. He also knew that he didnt want to end up in that path.
He basically jus used common sense. He knew that your not supposed to treat your family like that and letting them starve and jus basically not providing for your family. I believe if you make some kids you should take care of them. Okonkwo knew that he had to better his self and family by doing the father things that hes not really not supposed to be doing as a child. That isnt his responsibility to take care of the family when your really are supposed to b involved with school work , and just being a kid.
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ReplyDeleteCindy Reyes
ReplyDeleteMr.Avery Period 08
Unokoa who is okonkwo's father said that ''it is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone''. He also said that ''a proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride''. I think there was some wisdom or some truth in what Unokoa said. I believe it's great to share your good times and your bad times especially with the ones you love. I also believe that if your strong enough to endure something or anything hurtful anything else will seem like small bumps on the road your following.
Okonkwo's seems like a cold hearted and overbearing man yet,it's only because of his determination to be nothing like his father. Unokoa wasn't the best father figure he never really knew how to take care of his family.Unokoa was more of a free spirit who brought misery upon himself.If he would have shown his so how to have compassion and still be strong okonkwo wouldn't be setting himself up to be miserable and empty at the end.
While raising his son he let him feel as if he had to be better and stronger in every way. Which left no room for happiness and compassion. later I believe that because of his over bearing ways he just might find himself alone with no one to share his good fortune or misfortunes. Okonkwo did lean something from his father by doing the opposite of what his father did but he has too much pride and never learned how to love.
World History
ReplyDeleteReginald M. Clark Mr. Avery
September 16, 2009 Period 6
1. I honestly think that he taught his son not to be like him because he was a big failure. I also think that he taught him how to be strong and respectful to others as well. He was known in the 9 villages but Unoka wasn’t I think they were opposite.
He was so strong that where it came down to things in the village getting done if you wasn’t apart or if you were nothing to him. He thought that his father was a person that only cared about himself.
That’s why I said that proverb because Okonkwo was smart and intelligent and his dad is all lazy and when his father died he was mad the reason is because he was in Levily debt and didn’t take a title with him.
2. I think the thing that made his perception like that is his father’s behavior. I also think that was because he had a very hard life and he wants better. He never had money.
I always would have thought that his father would see the hurt but he don’t he’s always in debt and not caring that money might be due the next day he just forgets about it and buys beer and things with it.
I also think is perception is like that because after being embarrassed for so many years, you get tired of the same things so now he tries to avoid his father and he tells people that Unoka is not his father.
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ReplyDeleteShania . L Simmons
ReplyDelete9-17-09
Period 6
1. Unoka raised okonkwo poorly, What I mean is unoka was lazy and he did not want to work. Therefore his family lived poor. Also unoka never showed okonkwo how to be a man, how to support a family, and how to work in the fields like a man, Okonkwo had to learn by his self, like I says in the book “ Okonkwo had no barn to inherit”, because his father was a debtor. Always owning people money.
2. What created okonkwo’s overbearing perception and behavior of how a man should act and think was the fact his father was a failure, and so because of that he work at not being a failure and he worked at it with his son not being a failure. If you really think about it Okonkwo is doing the opposite of his father.
His father was nothing so he become something, his father had no land so he got land or farm. All in all he trying not to be like is father, Like it says it the book “ Okonkwo had no patience with his father” or lazy what that means is his father’s laziness drove him crazy even at as child.
Naseer Boone
ReplyDelete9/17/09
Mr.avery
World history
Period 6
It is so hard to believe that Okankwo is Unoka son and Unoka is okankwo father.They are so different form each other.Unoka would borrow money from his own neighbors.Okankwo dont have to do that because he was a wealthy farmer.
Okankwo is brave and strong and Unoka is a coward and weak.
I believe that Okankwo is the exact opposite of Unoka.All of the bad things that Unoka did or was,Okankwo is the great of them or the opposie as I said.It probably was hard for him to overbear how his father was.Probably when he realize that why would he want to be like his father a coward,failiure,and/or poor.I sure have would.
Unoka may have been a coward,lazy,a failure,and poor but one good thing came out of him.Unoka was clever but he barely use it. when I say barely I mean the only clever thing was having Okankwo.It may not been a really good thing but look how Okankwo has turn out.If Unoka didn't do or was all those bad things maybe Okankwo wouldn't been so perfect now.
Justin,p6,wd
ReplyDeleteUnoka raised his son Okonkwo very different than Umofian parents. In the book it said” Unoka was poor and his wife and kids had barely enough to eat. Unoka was extremely lazy, and people laughed at him because he was a loafer. The neighbors around the town promised they would never lend any money to Unoka because he would never pay them back. Because of Unoka, Okonkwo did not have any titles to his name, a barn and wife once he became of age to do so. His father taught Okonkwo how to be a lazy failure. Okonkwo understood how lazy his father was and did not want to be anything like him.
Unoka is what created Okonkwo's overbearing perception and behavior of how a man should act and think because he really wanted to be opposite from his father, and he was. Okonkwo was an extremely hard worker and got all his riches himself. He made his titles by himself by becoming an extremely good wrestler. Okonkwo also got his riches from being tremendously successful off of growing yams. His father did not have yams because “his arm was not strong enough.”
As you can see Okonkwo was not a lazy man. In the book it says “he had no patience for unsuccessful men.” “He also had no patience for his father.” Okonkwo made a name for himself and it was not as low of a class of his father but it was not the highest. He also did not get any help from his father. To me Okonkwo was an independent successful man.
Zakiyyah Banks
ReplyDeleteSeptember 22, 2009
World History
Period 6
Unoka raised his son in a way every other man would never raise theirs. Unoka showed his son how to beg, give up his dream, to be dependent, basically how not to be a man. Unoka thought he was doing job but has no idea what he was doing. I guess the reason for Unoka’s attitude was because maybe his father never taught him the because of to work hard, honesty, real characteristics on how to become a man. This is the reason why Okonkwo is independent. He had to learn the hard way; he had to teach himself therefore no guidance.
It’s because of Unoka Okonkwo is all about himself and nobody else. It is because all he had was himself. Which is why he thinks a man do things by himself and for himself to survive and that woman is nothing? Okonkwo had to live a hard childhood but yet he overcame it and dealt with it a way a man should deal with. Not to complain but learn how to be stronger and learn from that lesson.
Either way Okonkwo is a true man due to the fact he learned how to be one and the most powerful one throughout his village. He should be a role model to young men all around the world just for being a man who cares about his future.
Ravaughn Catoe Period 6 Avery
ReplyDeleteUnoka was a good father. He taught Okonkwo Many thing. many good things. Such as manners and treating people right. He taught Okonkwo how to be a man.
He taught okonkwo to be unlike him. He did this because he believed that he was a failure in life, and he didn't want Okonkwo to be a failure like him. Okonkwo likes to see other men do good and when they don't he gets ticked off. Okonkwo was one of the most powerful men in umofia. He even beat up the second most powerful man in umofia to become the most powerful man.
Unoka created Okonkwo's overbearing perception and behavior of how a man should act and think because he really wanted to be opposite from his father. Okonkwo worked so hard that he was able to make his own money and became rich.