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60-61). Artistically the warning foreshadows the destruction and exile that follow Okonkwo 's killing of Ezeudu 's sixteen year-old son” (Ogbaa, Suicide). This quote can show the reader how weighty the second offence Okonkwo makes is. Okonkwo repents to Ani, the earth goddess, once again, but this time she punishes him by banishing Okonkwo and his family to his mother 's homeland.Okonkwo accidentally kills a boy and ergo is spilling the blood of a clansmen. So, Obierika’s previous prediction comes true and the “goddess wipes out whole families” by having Okonkwo and his family flee from their homes.

The Ibo on the other hand personified nature and turned to deities as well as ancestral spirits for guidance in their survival against unexplainable and often uncontrollable forces. When hardships arise they attempt to appease their gods and their spirits through sacrifice and ritual. Nature is a major theme of the religion of the Ibo and spirituality is very closely associated with the earth. Nature was also consulted in times of conflict between tribesmen. When Uzowulu was accused of beating his wife excessively her family took the case to the egwugwu, or the spirits of the nine sons, of the original father of the clan, which gave rise to the nine villages in the clan.

Lamphere (1969) concluded that chants are a symbolic system and actions that expresses a means of dealing with illness through symbolic offerings of man to god. Overall, despite how complex the Navajo ceremony may be, learning about the ritual is an eye opener for those who wish to go further than just learning about the religion. The Navajo rituals are a form of communication to the Holy People, who are believed to be the protector and their guidance through rough times.

Philippa Gregory once said, “Any woman who dares to make her own destiny will always put herself in danger.” (The Lady of the Rivers). In the story of Antigone the main character, Antigone, was the sacrifice of her own fate. Antigone killed herself after being imprisoned for burying her “traitor” brother, Polyneices, which was outlawed by King Creon (Antigone’s uncle). Creon’s son, Haimon (Antigone’s cousin), was ordained to marry Antigone, but after she was convicted, Creon didn’t want a woman like that for Haimon. When hearing an ill-fated prophecy from the prophet Teiresias, Creon changed his mind and went to bury Polyneices and release Antigone from her captivity.

But at the same time a man does not challenge his chi. "The evil you have done can ruin the whole clan. The earth goddess whom you have insulted may refuse to give us her increase, and we shall all perish" (22). Ezeani said this to okonkwo in response to his challenge against his chi, by beating his wife during the week of peace. Okonkwo BECAME THE EXAMPLE OF A person challenging his own chi.

The natives of Umuofia have many rituals and ceremonies to follow their culture and to worship their goddesses. For every little thing such as yams and the kola nut, they prayed to their gods and goddesses to thank them. Due to the importance of culture and religion to Okonkwo, he did not like seeing people converting to the new religion; therefore, he killed himself. Ironically, when the Europeans arrived, they changed the Ibo people’s perspective with the importance of Umuofian culture to make them follow the religion of Christianity. Most of the Ibo people started to convert to Christianity.

People seek to religion as a protection from dangers or when they are on a trouble. Religion strengthens our values, beliefs and brings people together as on. It gives us something to count on when we are down. We turn to religion to pray so that so we can be healthy or heeled when we are sick. People around the world, have different superficial about the way they approach their God or gods.

This story show significant purpo... ... middle of paper ... ...hey left the path put them on a spiritually change in life. The grandmother shows faith in Jesus. The whole time she with the Misfits. When the grandmother know she was going to die she starting preaching to the Misfits to let her live. Although, I think the grandmother didn’t really have faith she was just playing her usual role.

He covers up the truth just as the village people hid their sinful life that Brown was witness to. This way, the story and the people in the village remain a mystery to the reader just as the truth remains a mystery to Brown. Secondly, I noticed a lot of the re-reading papers on this story dealt with Faith as a character or Faith as a belief. (As Jennifer said, this story is a battle of faith and good and evil) To me, there is no escaping the fact that Faith is a representation of the "good" forces that oppose evil in the story. In the beginning, when Brown first leaves her behind, she tells him "God bless you" and "may you find all well when you return."

Her mother who was a pilgrim hunter, but she fell in love with a demon pilgrim, Melissa’s father, Henry Anderson. One day her father nearly kills her and her mother, but her mother surprisingly gives her husband a second chance to be with her and Melissa. When Melissa turned eleven years old, her father murdered her mother in cold blood in front of her. The police came to their house and they found Melissa covered in blood, but they couldn’t find her father anywhere. They placed her under custody which led the organization, Protection of Civilization from Demonic Pilgrims to make a deal about her joining the organization so she can avenge her mother’s death.