TFA #2

Chapter 25

This chapter is written more from the perspective of the district commissioner. The DC and his guards travel to Okonkwo’s hut after he has murdered the messenger. When The DC arrives there he finds Obierika and other elders from the village. When he asks where Oknonwo is he threatens to take the men to jail if they don’t deliver Okonkwo. The men lead them to where Ononkwo hung himself. From here the DC considers his options for including Okonkwo in a book he is writing of a history of Africa. The question is whether to devote a paragraph or a chapter to his. This is insulting to the reader. We have just spent an entire book learing about Okonkwo and coming to understand and respect this charecter, and now this white man wants to cast him off as nothing but a talking point and an animal. The DC’s book is to be a history but the way he writes it will not be a true history but an obscenely bias one.

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