Things Fall Apart

When reading Things Fall Apart, it surprised me that domestic violence was seen as something common. Women in the African culture are seen as trophies to prove their husband's manliness and were restricted to cook, clean and giving birth to their children. Basically back then the more wives you had the more of a man you were, so monogamy did not exist in the African culture. I  think a real man should only love one woman, this is the only case where I think it is okay to be selfish. Speaking of marriage it was common in this time period to have arranged marriages, and women, at the age of sixteen, could be married which amazes me because that is too young to think about being in a relationship with someone for the rest of your life. In addition, children were taught to be aggressive and tough to prove that they are "real men". The African culture has very odd customs, for example, giving birth to twins was seen as a curse and the twins were taken to the evil forest to be sacrificed. Overall I think it is a good story and I enjoy reading this book. I get to see how women were being treated and I am glad to see, that has changed for what I think is better.