Knowledge Begins with Self Knowledge
You cannot fully understand what's going around you, or how you fit into the events surrounding you, unless you know yourself first.
Things Fall Apart
Okonkwo is the novel's protagonist. Okonkwo is the son of the effeminate and lazy Unoka, a man he resents for his weaknesses. Okonkwo strives to make his way in a culture that traditionally values manliness. As a young man he defeated the village's best wrestler, earning him lasting prestige. He therefore rejects everything for which he believes his father stood; Unoka was idle, poor, profligate, cowardly, gentle, and interested in music and conversation. Okonkwo consciously adopts opposite ideals and becomes productive, wealthy, brave, violent, and opposed to music and anything else that he regards as "soft," such as conversation and emotion. He is stoic to a fault. He is also the hardest-working member of his clan. Okonkwo's life is dominated by fear of failure and of weakness—the fear that he will resemble his father. Ironically, in all his efforts not to end up like his father, he commits suicide, becoming in his culture an abomination to the Earth and rebuked by the tribe as his father was. Okonkwo's suicide represents not only his culture's rejection of him, but his rejection of the changes in his people's culture, as he realizes that the Igbo society that he so valued has been forever altered by the Christian missionaries.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ferris is a street-wise kid who knows all the tricks. Today he decides to take the day off school. When Ferris takes the day off, so must his best friends, Cameron and Sloane. Cameron is reluctantly persuaded to borrow his father's Ferrari, and together they hatch a plan to get Sloane out of class. Suspicious dean of students Ed Rooney knows all about Ferris, but can never catch him. Ferris' sister Jeanie is also frustrated that Ferris always gets away with his tricks and she doesn't. Furthermore, Ferris is an 'angel' in his parents eyes. It's Ferris' day off, he's out to enjoy himself.
Ferris Bueller has played hooky numbers of times, and this time
he's got the entire school and more believing he is on the verge of death. On
this special day off, Ferris invites his friend Cameron Fry and girlfriend
Sloane Peterson to his day of fun, while taking Cameron's father's precious
Ferrari for transportation. All the while, the principal Ed Rooney is determined
to prove Ferris is faking his illness and Ferris's agitated sister Jeanie also
has a goal to catch Ferris off guard. Ferris enjoys his day with his friends,
until the mileage of the Ferrari reads one too many miles driven and Cameron has a blow out.
He seems uneasy throughout the movie until the very end where he expressed what he truely feels about his father and how he wants to live his life.
Ferris Bueller has played hooky numbers of times, and this time
he's got the entire school and more believing he is on the verge of death. On
this special day off, Ferris invites his friend Cameron Fry and girlfriend
Sloane Peterson to his day of fun, while taking Cameron's father's precious
Ferrari for transportation. All the while, the principal Ed Rooney is determined
to prove Ferris is faking his illness and Ferris's agitated sister Jeanie also
has a goal to catch Ferris off guard. Ferris enjoys his day with his friends,
until the mileage of the Ferrari reads one too many miles driven and Cameron has a blow out.
He seems uneasy throughout the movie until the very end where he expressed what he truely feels about his father and how he wants to live his life.