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Why do the men of Umuofia laugh at the missionary in Things Fall Apart?
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∙ 11y ago
His Ibo translator was translating a word similar to "myself" as "my buttocks". Further, the missionary told the villagers that their gods were not alive and could not do them any harm. He called them pieces of wood and stone. The villagers thought the missionary was mad.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 6y agoThe story reminds Okonkwo of his father Unoka, of whom he is ashamed of for similar reasons; Obiako's father was a man who was likely lazy and heavily in debt, not prosperous at all.
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