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1) I totally didn't do the first question about my problem last week, so I'll describe my problem now. My problem is my inability to form attachments to people. Wherever I go I make friends that only last as long as I am with them. As soon elementary school, middle school and high school ended, the people that didn't go on with me became totally irrelevant. I spent my junior year of high school at a boarding school in Italy. I didn't miss my family or my friends from home, and when I came back all I missed about Rome was the city itself, not any of the people I met. This is a problem because there is no one that I've known long enough, besides mabye my family, that has been around me long enough to really trust them. The people I've made friends with at UCSC I hesitate to really bond with because I know that eventually that bond may mean more to them than me. This makes me feel like a selfish person, but I can't really help it.
The setting of my problem is wherever I am, and the characters are myself, my family, and my past present and future friends.
2)
a. In Things Fall Apart the monster is peoples need to dominate and control other people. This is embodied not only by the British but by the clan and Okwonko as well. It is easy to say that the monster is imperialism, the force that conquered much of the world on ridiculous pretenses, only to abolish or disfigure millenia old cultures, and eventually throw much of the conquered regions into chaos. It is more than that however. The monster is not just the imperial force that came in and took over. It is also the inflexibility of the native culture that aids in its downfall, and that drives Okwonko to commit suicide. Okwonko was everything that his culture admired. He is strong, wealthy, and manly, with many wives, children, and farms. Okwonko embodies the values of the clan, and the weakness of the clan. Agression and unflinching knowledge that one way is the only way is the real monster. Achebe would not have spent half the book only mentioning white men once if they were the only problem.
b. The Ibo in the book are nothing like Rousseau's savages. We already know that Rousseau's savage was an unfair and unrealistic view of prehistoric man, but Achebe adds even more assurance. Okwonko's clan in the book is past the point where they qualifiy as savages even by Rouseeau's standards. They have culture, traditions, and deep connections.
The setting of my problem is wherever I am, and the characters are myself, my family, and my past present and future friends.
2)
a. In Things Fall Apart the monster is peoples need to dominate and control other people. This is embodied not only by the British but by the clan and Okwonko as well. It is easy to say that the monster is imperialism, the force that conquered much of the world on ridiculous pretenses, only to abolish or disfigure millenia old cultures, and eventually throw much of the conquered regions into chaos. It is more than that however. The monster is not just the imperial force that came in and took over. It is also the inflexibility of the native culture that aids in its downfall, and that drives Okwonko to commit suicide. Okwonko was everything that his culture admired. He is strong, wealthy, and manly, with many wives, children, and farms. Okwonko embodies the values of the clan, and the weakness of the clan. Agression and unflinching knowledge that one way is the only way is the real monster. Achebe would not have spent half the book only mentioning white men once if they were the only problem.
b. The Ibo in the book are nothing like Rousseau's savages. We already know that Rousseau's savage was an unfair and unrealistic view of prehistoric man, but Achebe adds even more assurance. Okwonko's clan in the book is past the point where they qualifiy as savages even by Rouseeau's standards. They have culture, traditions, and deep connections.
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