caitybugking

13.03.2020 • 

English

Things Fall Apart Gender Themes/Issues:

How does Okonkwo’s relationship with male and female characters differ? Why?

What role do women play in this novel? What is life like for Okonkwo’s wives?

Some female characters in the book don’t seem to fit the mold according to Okonkwo’s view? Who are they and why are they important to the text?

When Okonkwo is sent into exile, he is sent to Mbanta, his “motherland,” where things seem very different than life in Umuofia. How are they different? What do these differences tell us about gender? What do you make of the expression “Mother is Supreme” that is mentioned in the book?

What do the terms “patriarchy” and “matriarchy” mean? Give one example of each from the text.

How is Okonkwo’s view of gender different from other characters’ view of gender roles in the novel? Give examples.

Think about the character Ezinma. Of Ezinma, Okonkwo thinks: "She should have been a boy" (p. 64). Why is it necessary to the story that Okonkwo's most favored child be a girl? What does it mean that she has all of the characteristics that her father finds more valuable in a son?

In the novel, there are two kinds of murder – male and female (124). What are these and what do they mean to the novel? Does it matter that Okonkwo committed the “female” kind of murder?

Ответ:

riiahh22

10.10.2020

English

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A major supply route that divided the South.

Explanation:

During the American Civil War both the Confederacy and the Union fought battles to control the Mississippi river which in effect divided the South.

For the Confederacy, the river was needed to keep up the war effort as manpower and materials needed by the states to the East to survive and fight were usually situated in the west of the river in Texas, Arkansas and Western Louisiana.

For the Union, they needed control of the River to isolate the Eastern Confederacy who were reliant on the west and defeat them.

They also wanted to set up Navel bases where they could land armies and attack the Confederacy with ease. They finally wrestled control of this river from the Confederates on July 4, 1863 when Vicksburg fell to the Union.

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