My whole views of the Writings by Chinua Achebe were positive. I related on so many aspects. People can create their own realities. In your previous class we read the short story “Continuity of Parks” the author to me had very similar ideas. He believed that if a person believed in it deeply fiction does become the reality in which we live.
The story that stood out the most to me was “The Madman”. If you did not read the story correctly you would get very confused on who actually was the mad man and who actually was not. If you are always told something you start to believe it. Well in the story Nwibe was not crazy he was just modest and going about his business when in actual reality the madman was the man that was really crazy and insane. It makes me wonder if in an unjust system what your best option is. Is it to go crazy? Yes I feel that way you get to set yourself free and no longer have to deal with being told “you’re crazy, your ugly or etc” deep down inside you know the truth and why your actions provoked you to act in such a way. I like the author’s particular style of writing because instead of making one character crazy she made both characters crazy which made the story come to life more. It also showed me the differences of how Colonization of the mind happens, and in this story it exemplified it well.
You make a great point about how sometimes it is hard to tell who is sane and who is crazy in our present world. I also wonder about what a person's best option is in an unjust system. This is a serious question that we all need to consider these days.
ReplyDeleteYou make some great observations here, and you begin to extend them into your own experience with your questions. In your next posting, see if you can answer some of the questions that you bring up. This would be a great way to deepen your analysis and your Reader Response.