Things Fall Apart

While reading the book Things Fall Apart I learned more about the African culture.  I learned their customs and what their families are like.  I never would have thought that men were allowed to have more than one wife at the same time.  Men were highly respected if they had many wives, for instance, the more wives they had, the more they would be respected.  I now have an idea of what they live through everyday and what they're expected to do.  For example, women and children are expected to do whatever the male tells them to do.  If they did not do what they were expected to, the male would beat them.  The male of the family worked in the fields and planted yams, while the women planted other things.  Girls were supposed to do things women did, and could not help out the father because that is the job for a man to do.  Boys were not allowed to do things women did, and they always go wherever their father goes.  I never thought the African culture would be so strict with what men and women could and couldn't do, but I really love reading this book because I get a chance to be in someone else's shoes and experience a new culture.