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__Significant Points__ 1. The Igbo people's treatment towards the white men parallel their treatment towards the locust. They fail to realize the destruction that the white people could cause.

2. Uchendu and Obierika; Both of these people are similar in that their beliefs and personalities are completely opposite to those of Okonkwo.One is from his motherland and the other from his fatherland. This perhaps strengthens the foil and therefore the contrast that exists. It should be important to note that Obierika meets up with Uchendu at one point.

3. Achebe seems to imply in his novel that the root of all issues between the Christians and the Igbo is the misunderstanding and lack of interaction between them. In the novel, the two sides just leave each other alone and consider the others' faith to be false. This could be Achebe's attempt to tell his audience that the tension between cultures in the real world are also caused by lack of understanding and communication.

__Significant Sentences__

1. "The harvest was over" -Implication: End of harvest = End of peace; foreshadows the end (destruction of the culture) -Juxtaposed with the arrival of the missionaries.

2. He spoke through an interpreter who was an Ibo man, though his dialogue was different and harsh to the ears of Mbanta. -Difference in culture. -conversion has an effect.