C Day English TFA Mr. McCloskey 8:38 AM In a few sentences, describe the Do Now: ending of chapter 24, Class: 25

THINGS FALL APART http://marul.ffst.hr/~bwillems/fymob/things.pdf

Do Now
Mr. McCloskey
8:38 AM
In a few sentences, describe the ending of chapter 24. Where did we leave off?
Write in your own words:
There is a meeting. The first speaker laments the damage that the white man and his church have done to the clan and bewails the desecration of the gods and ancestral spirits. He reminds the clan that it may have to spill clansmen’s blood if it enters into battle with the white men. In the middle of the speech, five court messengers approach the crowd. Their leader orders the meeting to end. No sooner have the words left the messenger’s mouth than Okonkwo kills him with two strokes of his machete. A tumult rises in the crowd, but not the kind for which Okonkwo hopes: the villagers allow the messengers to escape and bring the meeting to a conclusion. Someone even asks why Okonkwo killed the messenger. Understanding that his clan will not go to war, Okonkwo wipes his machete free of blood and departs.

Classwork:
Mr. McCloskey
8:48 AM
1. How is the word "superfluous" used on page 186? (first page of the chapter)
unnecessary, especially through being more than enough.

2. What does Obierika and his men need "help" with?
Okonkwo killed himself by hanging. Custom does not allow the tribe to bury after suicide.

3. (1 paragraph) What do you make of Okonkwo's fate? How can what he did be seen as a sacrifice for his people? To you, was there anything different that he could have done?
Pick a side in your own words:

1) Okonkwo was a grunting, cultureless savage who inexplicably and senselessly kills a messenger. When Obierika asks the commissioner to help him with Okonkwo’s body, the narrator tells us that “the resolute administrator in [the commissioner] gave way to the student of primitive customs.” 
Okonkwo is by no means perfect. His tragedy is of his own making. His chi is to blame? the traditional customs of the villagers are not glorified, rather questioned or criticized. 

2) Okonkwo is a martyr like Martin Luther King.  The same people who control the natives relay the accepted accounts of colonized cultures—in a manner, of course, that best suits the colonizer’s interest. These are inaccurate stereotypes.  This is societal tragedy, There is no blame on the Igbo people for the colonialism to which they were subjected. This is critical of colonialism and of colonial literary representations.