Sunday, June 1, 2008
If Only
In the movie The Gobs Must Be Crazy the coke bottle was viewed as an "evil thing." One of the the villagers took the coke bottle to the end of the earth and got rid of it and it seemed that when he came back the bushman's problems were gone with the coke bottle. In Things Fall Apart when the westerners came they weren't seen as evil exactly but they caused a lot of troubled for the villages like Umuofia, like the coke bottle did for the bushman. Do you think that if the Africans were able to take the westerners to the end of the earth that Umuofia's problems would disappear with the westerners as well?
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No I do not think that the problems of the Africans would be solved. The westerns were actual people and had a say in the villages of the Africans while the coke bottle was just passed on person to person. The problems would increase because the Africans would not know what to do once the Westerns left. The Westerns colonized the villages giving them new ideas and replacing those of the Africans.
-Aryana
I think their problems would become easier because there would be less westerners. However, they would have to live with the guilt of having killed dozens of people. This could add more problems on top of Umuofia's problems.
-Jessica
I do not think so because I think that before the people of Umuofia brought the westerners to the end of the earth, some people may have converted to Christianity. I think the people who converted to Christianity would try to convert the people of Umuofia who had not already converted. Even if no one did convert, I still think that there would have been talk about the westerners coming to Umuofia.
-Chanell Washington
I think they would still have problems. The people beliefs in traditions were not that strong if they would convert or give up that easily. I think the Westerners gave them a vehicle to break from tradition. I think if any outside people had come it they would have had trouble so it was just a matter of time.
I agree with Aryana, even if the westerners were hog-tied and chuucked off into the Nile, the psychologic and mental burdens would still remain with the villagers, because they would begin to question their own beliefs alongside the Christians'
{i.e. the Christians did not die when foot was laid unto "unholy" ground defined by the Umofians}
-William-
The obvious answer is no, because there is no actual end of the earth. For the Umuofians, possibly, they would probably think that their problems would be gone, but of course the Westerners would only find their way back or to another African tribe. I also do not think that the Umuofians would have even taken the Westerners to the end of the earth, at least soon after they arrived. It would not be until later, towards the end of the book, that the tribe would be so fed up with the Westerners as to try to dispose of them - if they had a way, or if they believed in 'the end of the earth'. Even so, not all of their problems would disappear, and if they did, this change would only be temporary.
-Rachel D.
Oh, my, definately not! What would happen if the Africans took the westerners to "the end of the earth"? They would push the westerners off. And then more westerners would come in search of their missing comrades. The Africans would then be in quite a pickle!
No, taking the westerners to the end of the earth would definately be a bad idea.
-Marjorie
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