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Wednesday 27 February 2013

DARREL UNCHATT & MOHD IRWANDY & AFIQ AZMAN - REFLECTION ON THINGS FALL APART

Reflection on "Things Fall Apart": Your Thoughts on the Novel: I am sure by now you have completed reading the whole novel "Things Fall Apart". There are issues which you might find troubling. ...

Darrel Unchatt


In your respective blogs, think reflectively of the issues found in the novel. The following questions should help you in your analysis:
Based on your reading of “Things Fall Apart”, what aspects of the Igbo culture allow the British to take over?

The Igbo people were unaware of the outside forces. This is because they were not uniting with each of the tribes. So, it was easy for the coloniser to take advantage on them. Besides that, the Igbo culture is against the Christianity and their mission was to spread the new religion to uncivilised people.

Since Sarawak has also undergone colonisation, how has this affected aspect of culture in our society?
It was almost the same as what happened to the Igbo people in Nigeria but the locals seems to accept James Brooke as the Rajah or the ruler of Sarawak. The colonisation did not affect the locals’ culture because the ruler respected the locals’ culture in order the people’s heart so that they would continue support the Rajah.

Are there any changes brought about in the lives of the indigenous tribes in Africa and Sarawak?
There are many changes that have been brought to their lives. The first one is the religion. Both of the tribes from Sarawak and Africa were converted to Christianity. From that way, their culture and lives were changed because some of them tended to leave their old culture and focus on the new religion. Secondly, the local people in Sarawak were given the education. Most of the people received the English educations that have been brought by the ruler at that time. 


Mohd Irwandy bin Mohammad Jali

In your respective blogs, think reflectively of the issues found in the novel. The following questions should help you in your analysis:
Based on your reading of “Things Fall Apart”, what aspects of the Igbo culture allow the British to take over?
One of the aspects is the oppression of the Igbo people towards the outcast of their culture. For example, the handful of people who converted to Christianity. These people support the British as they provide a shelter for these outcasts. Also, because of the promise of equal right by the British intrigued most of the Igbo people. The most important aspect is because the Igbo people are not united.

Since Sarawak has also undergone colonisation, how has this affected aspect of culture in our society?
   
      On the upside, much of the generation of that time in Sarawak speak fluent English. Also, the culture of depending only on agriculture changes when the British introduce oil drilling. In addition, multiculturalism steps into another level in Sarawak when Chinese immigrants were brought into Sarawak.

      Are there any changes brought about in the lives of the indigenous tribes in Africa   and Sarawak?
   
      Yes, they are in fact many changes. First, both become more modernize in their use of technology. Secondly, the administration system changes and revolutionise the existed system. Lastly, the tribes or people are more open to social and academic changes which meant that they are more knowledgeable than before.

    
      Mohammad Afiq bin Azman


In your respective blogs, think reflectively of the issues found in the novel. The following questions should help you in your analysis:
Based on your reading of “Things Fall Apart”, what aspects of the Igbo culture allow the British to take over?

Based on what I have read in Things Fall Apart, the Igbo culture allows the British to take over through the aspect of openness. They allow the British to come to their land with nothing they do to stop them. Another aspect is they believe so much in their culture beliefs. They think that by letting the British build the church in the Evil Forest, all of them will get rid but they are wrong. Starting from that, the British slowly take over their land.



Since Sarawak has also undergone colonisation, how has this affected aspect of culture in our society?

Although I am not from Sarawak but I can see how the colonisation has affected the multiple tribes and culture in Sarawak. Firstly, it is about Christianity. Because of the colonisation by the British, most of the people of the tribes in Sarawak are Christian and I think this religion is the religion of highest number of followers in Sarawak. Not just that aspect, the consequence from the colonisation brings the English language to this land of hornbill. Old folks in this country can speak English fluently than the youngsters nowadays. So here it means that English came first before Bahasa Melayu. They master the English language first before they could master Bahasa Melayu.



Are there any changes brought about in the lives of the indigenous tribes in Africa and Sarawak?

For this part I think it is a little bit hard. But what I can tell is they are slowly leaving the old culture because of the colonisation and globalisation. We can see that they understand about knowledge and how knowledge can bring them to a better future.











2 comments:

  1. On the aspect of of the Igbo culture which allow the British to take over, I agree with Darrel whereby he mentioned that the Igbo society were not united and this eventually become of the factor that the British took over their land. However, I for one, do not agree with Darrel's statement that the Igbo society were unaware of the outside forces. From my point of view,if the people were unaware of the outsude force, they would be easily be conqured by the British. However the Igbo society did actually aware with outside forces. For example, when the Christianity came to their land, the villagers, did not accept them. Instead they ignored the Christian missionaries and also have a debate with them, sharing about each other's belief. Thus, the Christian missionaries find a hard time to actually "conquer" the people, or in other word, try to convert them. Therefore, this can be seen that the people are actually aware of the outside force and try to fight it. That's all from me. THANK YOU! Please send me a feedback~ :)

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    1. dear Joe,
      what i tried to say is the Igbo people were not aware that the British will conquer them. at first they accept the British into their country. the fighting between the local and the colonizer happened when the missionaries tried to convert them into Christianity. i think u might need to revise back my answer.tQ...ME GUSTA ur commento..

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