The first thing I noticed when reading the first few chapters is that one has to pay close attention to every detail mentioned in the story. What I mean is that everything has a meaning and there is a reason for it to be mentioned. From the the very beginning, I noticed how the weather will play a big role throughout the story. It is mentioned quite a few times and every time you read about it either something good or bad will happen in the story; It's kind of like they are connected to each other, and the weather is like foreshadowing a certain event. The moonlight and darkness were also mentioned a lot throughout the story. Darkness was where no one, not even the bravest man, would dare to do dangerous things: "Darkness held a vague terror for these people, even the bravest among them"(9). But moonlight is like the opposite of darkness because "on a moonlight...the happy voices of children playing in the open fields would then be heard"(10).
Readers are introduced to a man named Okonkwo. He was a wealthy farmer, with three marriages, and very succesful--everything his dad wasn't. So this man represents the qualities of what an African man represented in his village. Even though he may have looked like a strong man, he was "dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness"(13). I think that this is something every man was afraid of. They wanted to be successful without ever having to experiences failure--they wanted to leave a legacy.
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