#2 Thoughts on Things Fall Apart

After reading well into the novel, Things Fall Apart, I have learned to find out many things about this story that really fascinated me.  For example, when Okonkwo had killed Ikemefuna as part of some cultural ritual.  I find it cruel and unusual that a type of religious culture would force a person to kill someone in order to not have this "bad luck".  One would assume that if you were in a tight religion, the religion wouldn't ask you to do such vulgar actions.  Although, things were completely different back in the British colonial era.  What also caught my interest as I was reading the novel was that one of Okonkwo's wives, Ekwefi, had a total of nine children.  All of her first eight children had died in their infant years.  After her children dying child after child, she began to lose hope and believed that she had an evil spirit living in her stomach where she would bare her children.  I know if it was me in Ekwefi's point of view, after having so many kids die so soon into their life, I would lose hope over having children in general.  I would just assume that I'm just not capable of baring kids and would, over time, learn to accept that fact.