How to Write About Women

First of all when you start your story and you introduce a female character make sure she's in the kitchen, because lets be honest here thats all women are good for, probably making a sandwich or cooking a meal for her husband to come home to. Make sure her husband is the only source of income in the family, because women cant work and they don't provide anything for the family besides cleaning and cooking and taking care of the kids, there can be no such thing as a househusband, only a housewife. 
If you do decide to make the female character work, make sure her job is not a dominant one, she cannot be the boss of any company at all, and if she is she probably doesn't make as much as a man, even if they have the same working hours and qualifications, the woman will most definitely get paid less, simply because she's a woman.
 If there is a female teenager in this family you have to show the conversation before the girl goes out, her parents need to warn her not to show any skin whatsoever, even if she is wearing a tank top, she is basically asking for trouble and we don't want any guys to have to control themselves or their hormones. Also before she goes to school make sure she knows she can not wear any shorts or cut sleeves, even if its 45 degrees outside, we wouldn't want to distract any of the other boys from their learning, because their lack of control is more important than her comfort. Otherwise she'll get sent home, she doesn't need to learn anything that day its okay for her to miss school if anyone feels she's inappropriately dressed. Also when mentioning her hobbies, since it obviously cant be a sport because girls are weak and fragile, maybe something like piano or ballet would be more appropriate. 
Now that we've established the two female characters in the family, whenever they are in a bad mood or get into a fight, automatically point out that its probably because of a guy or a broken nail or some stupid gossip, cause really, when do girls have real problems?
Also referring back to the country they are in you have to mention their obviously MALE leader, women cant be leaders what if they get their periods? They might start a war for a bad reason because they're always so moody, something men have never ever done before.
Basically, you just need to establish that men are better and equality does not exist.

Why Thinks Fell Apart

If I could re-do it all I would, but I cannot go back now, the damage has been done. I should’ve taken action earlier before it all got too messed up, now everything has fallen apart beyond repair. I should have known the moment the white people came into our territory and began changing everything that they were going to be our downfall. I should’ve known that although the Christians were accepting of all people and have opened the doors to many opportunities for the people in Umofia, that they still had an agenda. Just as the famous quote by Jomo Kenyatta goes “When the missionaries came, the Africans had the land and the Christians had the Bible. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed.
When we opened them they had the land and we had the Bible”

The missionaries have deceived us by enforcing Christianity when in reality all they wanted was to take over and destroy our homeland.

I should have listened to Okonkwo, my best friend. For he was able to see the true strategy of the missionaries. For ignoring him and disregarding his thoughts on rebellion is in fact one of my greatest regrets, for all along he was right, and had I stood by him and supported him maybe things would have turned out differently.

However I was deceived and I ignored Okonkwo, which led him to kill himself, and led the missionaries destroy the core of Umofia, its Ibo culture and traditions. Besides with the destruction of the core, everything around it must fall apart.

-Obierika

Paper 2 Analytical Response

To what extent has an awareness of context enriched or enhanced your understand of Things Fall Apart?

I have read the novel Things Fall Apart,  by Chinua Achebe twice, once before i had any background knowledge on the Igbo culture and once after a thorough understanding of their history and traditions. 

We recently read an article called "Problems of Gender & History in the teaching of Things Fall Apart" that looks at how different people from different cultures view and understand the novel based on their background knowledge and tradition. It talked about the two woman's opinion, one western white woman, and another African one. The way the two perceived the text was completely contradictory. This is most likely due to the fact that the African woman is aware of all the actions and events within the novel because it is part of her personal culture, it is something she understands and can relate to, whereas the western woman was very offended and did not have an enriched understanding of the novel because the confusion of the events was preventing her to look deeper into the story and understand what Achebe was actually trying to portray throughout the novel.  


First time reading the novel, I agreed with the perspective of the western woman in the article- who argued that the book was extremely sexist and degrading to women, which is what i believe the first time i read the book, throughout the novel there has been extreme and several acts of domestic violence against women and they have been degraded and empowered throughout the entire novel by aspects such as the men being 'in control' of the households and being able to have several wives, such as Okonkwo having three wives himself, and beating them when he saw fit. 

In between the two times re reading the novel, i read several articles and texts talking about the culture, traditions and history of the Igbo people, which were being referenced throughout the novel. Knowing these facts about their tribe really impacted my understanding of the novel, for example, in the novel they describe many times where twins were sent to die in an 'evil forest', first time hearing this seemed inhumane. After understanding their culture i comprehended that it was all part of their belief systems that discusses their luck and their afterlife and constant need to obey their chosen gods, and it discusses the fact that having twins is unnatural and an unlucky event in which they can attempt to solve by letting them die in this forest, which keeps all their lives balanced.

In conclusion, after reading and understanding more about the Igbo people that are being referred to in the novel, i think that my understanding of the novel has expanded and that i am more open and apprehensive of their different traditions and beliefs.