When I read "Things Fall Apart" I saw it from the feminism lens. Aristotle once said, "The male is by nature more superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules and the other in ruled." The people of the Ibo treated the men as more superior than the women. The women seemed more as a way of telling how powerful the man is, since the more successful men had more wives. The wives were to cook dinner for their husband and clean the house. Even as children, the boys were expected to be stronger than the girls. The boys had to help their father with the crops as the girls were to help their mother clean and serve their father food.
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