The Third set of Journals

29 June 2008

Entry Number 7

Page # 27

Okonkwo was well known to be the fearless man who was the unsurpassed warrior in all the nine villages. The tribe honored him so much that they made him responsible of sending messages of death and war to the enemy tribe. The tribe was so frightful of okonkwo that they surrendered a virgin woman, with a young lad of their tribe.

The virgin woman was sent to Udo from okonkwo for the remission of his assassinated wife. The very frightful young lad was summoned to okonkwo and his family. The elders of Umuofia decided to let the Ikemfuna remain with okonkwo for a couple of years. A handful of time the young lad tried to escape the tribe, but he had no were to go.

29 June 2008

Entry Number 8

Page 27& 28

The young lad was so freighted that he tried to escape the very presence of Umuofia. Ikemfuna had delayed all of his meals due to the remembrance of his former family. When Okonkwo found that the young lad wasn’t eating, he took his big stick and hovered over the Ikemfuna as he devoured his food.

Ikemfuna became very popular in the Okonkwo residence. He was the oldest of all the siblings in the household. He was a positive example and a brother of all the children in the compound. Okonkwo began to establish a very close relationship with the young lad and the young lad grew close to his extended father.

29 June 2008

Entry Number 9

Page 27 & 28

The young lad was very equipped in all areas in his life. He was well grounded with outdoor, indoor work. No doubt Okonkwo was starting to have favor with Ikemfuna. Okonkwo was a man that never showed any signs of emotions because that was a sign of weakness.

The bond between okonkwo and Ikemfuna was more than a friendship, but it was a father and son type of relationship. Even though Okonkwo had favor with his new son he treated him like every one else with a heavy and hurtful fist. Indeed Okonkwo started to travel with Ikemfuna to ancestral feasts, and big village meetings. Ikemfuna felt so secure with his new family that he forgot about his former family in the enemy tribe.