Chapter 17

This chapter talks a lot about the missionaries again and how Nwoye was talked into joining their religion. It starts out with the missionaries or chrisitans rather begging for a place to set up their church and stuff. So the clan pretty much gives them the dump or grave yard where they throw all the dead people, hoping they will all wind up dead before long. Of course things do not go as planned and they end up being there for a very very long time. It would be very gross cleaning out that area to build a church. I can not imagine seeing bones and things like that laying around let alone touching them; very gross! What is with the villages killing twins? what do they have against them anyway? It was pretty much Okonkwo's cousin Amikwu who tattled on Nwoye about hanging out with the Christians. Amikwu spotted him one day around the missionares and ran home and told Okonkwo right away. When Okonkwo found out saying he flipped out is pretty much an understatement. He went crazy and was very mad and angry. He already had so low of expectations for Nwoye that this is just the icing on the cake. Okonkwo patiently waited for Nwoye to get home and when he finally did he took his anger out on him. I felt so bad for Nwoye having to deal with his father beating him. For one I bet it hurt and plus it probably crushed him knowing his own father did not support him. Okonkwo does not know one thing about parenting and just makes everything worse. I am very glad Okonkwo is not my father. After Nwoye took his beatings he left to live with the missionaries forever disclaiming his father forever. Okonkwo will never see his son again and never will admit that is his son.