Chapter 15

Although they've been mentioned before I have a question about yams. What is the difference between a seed yam and those that they eat and/or sell at the market? It also seems that in the last few chapters Obierika has been mentioned much much more and I think that his relationship with Okonkwo is growing more and more every time that they see each other and Obierika is realy Okonkwo's only tie to his old village and sells his yams at the market and gives Okonkwo the profits. That's a pretty nice guy right there. I would expect the occassional visit but to seel my plants for profit for nothing is pretty nice. I would definately take a cut of the profit if I were Obierika. Finally we see the white man. I was wondering if we were going to see him because this story is written back in the days when the slave trade was starting to die off and the continent was being explored. My biggest question though is what was this guy doing in the middle of the jungle riding a bicycle. I know I would definately not ride my modern bicycle in the jungle let alone one of those old fashioned ones and the man must be an idiot because he's traveling in unfamiliar territory were there are hostile people on a bike. Call me crazy but this guy is an imbosile. I also wonder why the tribe killed him. He didn't seem to do any harm to anyone but they killed him anyway and tied his bike to a tree instead of destroying it like any man who is thinking would do. Instead they put it on display for the world to see and sure enough some white men see it and slaughter everyone. I also was wondering why they didn't listen to the Oracle and arm themselves. They seem to listen to absolutely everything the thing says any other time and the one time they don't listen the Oracle is right. Talk about ironic.