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Movie and Book
The movie had similarities to the book in many ways. In the movie the coke bottle is what drives the man from his tribe. In the book, Okonkwo is driven from his home and forced to another land. How do you think those relate to each other? Is there any significance between the two?
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Both of these things caused people to leave their village. In “Things Fall Apart” Okonkwo is exiled from his home town of Umuofia. In “The Gods must be Crazy” the bush man has to leave his village to get rid of the evil coke bottle. Both times the characters are driven from their homes by aspects of Western society. It seems that the point of these works is to show that Westerners should not interfere with other cultures, unless help is needed.-Henry
Wasn't Okwonko exiled for murdering that one kid?Anyway,the western culture "surprised" the tribe which would cause them to think that it is evil. The western culture in the tribe had worst effects as the tribe was killed because of their murdering of the white man.So both suffered after having contact with the western culture.
nestor
I kind of disagree with Henry when he says that there is similarity in the way that the two men from the book and movie were driven from their homes. Technically, the man in the movie was not driven from his home. He felt it was his duty to rid his people of the evil thing, but was never obligated to go: it was by choice, unlike when Okonkwo was exiled for the murder of the child who's father had just died. Though they are the same in both leaving their homes and in experiencing the effects of the Western invasion of Africa
-David
I think that they both relate to eachother because they both were kicked out of the village for the people's safety. The coke bottle was called the "evil thing" the main guy of the movie didn't want his family geting hurt so he wanted to get rid of the bottle. The bottle had changed everyone,now the village people were competing for the bottle. In the case of okonwko the village didnt want him anymore so they send him to the village of his mother. There he wasnt treated with as much respect.
Diana
I like to see that there are many opinions to this question. Great response David and Henry.
-Alyssa.
They relate since both characters were sort of forced away with a stupid reason. They were different though because one was a much harsher punishment and seemedlike it had a greater impact.
-daniel
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