I’m working on a literature multi-part question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

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Discussion Question #1

When Okonkwo is about to leave Mbanta after seven years and offers a feast, one of the oldest members in Mbanta says: “We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so. . . . But I fear for you young people because. . . you do not know what it is to speak with one voice. A man can now leave his father and his brothers. He can curse the gods of his fathers and his ancestors. . . . I fear for you; I fear for the clan”. What do you make of this? Why is it important for them to speak with one voice? How has Umuofia changed during the seven years Okonkwo was in exile? What action does Okonkwo want to take on the white man? Why does Obierika think that “it [fighting against the white man] is already too late”? Why does Obierika say “we have fallen apart” ? Why does Okonkwo think that Nwoye’s conversion to Christianity is a womanly behavior?

Discussion Question #2

Mr. Brown built a school and a hospital in Umuofia after he learned that Christianity and the religion of the clan cannot coexist and “a frontal attack on it [the clan’s religion] would not succeed”. What does Mr. Brown try to achieve by educating the native children in the British way? Does the introduction of the white man’s education and culture uplift the minds of the villagers, or does it affect their minds and views on their own customs? Why did the white man bring a colonial government to Umuofia? What happened to the people who threw away their twins to the Evil Forest? What power does the white man’s court have on the clans in Umuofia? Are the clans afraid of the white man, or are they fearful of the power (i.e. guns and other weapons) that the colonizers brought with them to impose their rules on the natives? (i.e. Imposing the British court system/governing rules and taking Africans as slaves. Can the clan’s traditional customs/rules coexist with the white man’s court system?

Discussion Question #3

Why does Enoch unmask an egwugwu in public? What is Enoch’s motive behind his action? Why does Okonkwo commit suicide at the end? Why do you think Okonkwo made that decision? Is Okonkwo’s tragic ending caused by the colonial influence or due to his obsession with being masculine? What caused the disintegration of the clan? Does the clan fall apart due to internal problems or an outside force? What do you make of the District Commissioner’s view of his work that “he had toiled to bring civilization to different parts of Africa” and his contemplation of the book entitled, The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger? Did British colonizers come to Nigeria to civilize the “primitive” African tribes? What was the British colonizer’s purpose in invading Nigeria?