Journals

Date: 11 August 2008

Entry:#29

Reflection:
The white men in “Things Fall Apart” did not only bring their religion but they brought their government as well. British courts were created to be the final authority in the land even though they didn’t belong there. Before, the people as a whole were in charge of keeping order around, but now only a small number of white men were doing it. These governments undermine some of the Ibo traditions. For example, if some one kills on accident, like Oknonkwo, they have to exile for seven years but the murderer is not corporal punished. If some one kills over a dispute of land there are other rules to be obeyed but there is never corporal punishment or imprisonment. Now these courts are taking tradition away from the Ibo tribe and applying their own laws of the land without the people’s consent.