Chris.Wendy.Oli.IPSS.11-13

Insightful points:
 * "Heart of Darkness" and other europerspective works look at the African society from the oustide/surface, while Achebe's Things Fall Apart talks about the Igbo society in a very laid-out, explained manner, where the readers are actually witnessing and experiencing the various aspects of the culture rather than looking from the side.
 * No toes - White men wear shoes, showing the difference in culture and how Africans see the white men as outsiders and discriminate against them, just as white men discriminate against Africans. This reveals that everyone discriminates to some degree.
 * Achebe uses the characters Nwoye and Obierika to question certain aspects of the Igbo culture (like stubbornly listening to the Oracle and throwing away innocent twin babies), while Okonkwo is an example of the stubborn people of the culture who are too insistent on some one thing/aspect (in Okonkwo's case, masculinity).

Significant sentences:
 * "She swore within her that if she heard Ezinma cry she would rush into the cave to defend her against all the gods in the world. She would die with her." (p108)
 * "It was only on his fourth trip that he found Ekwefi, and by then had become gravely worried." (p112)