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The soul of a person is what he/ she is really inside and reflects it on the outside.  That core hat no one can change to you because its the essence of what you really are.

In this entry I will talk about a quote that I identify myself with, it was a diffiicult desicion as i have many that I love and many authors I truly admire. In one of those authors is a pacifist who lead the world to peace.
"Be the change you wish to be" Mahatma Gandhi
The meaning of the quote can be interpreted in different ways, the first is to recognize yourself as you are and think overhead what will be of you in the future, for the better or the worse. It can also mean that your words say more than your actions, this really reflects most of what you are in essence and that any action you make will affect the construction of your future this means a bad reputation if your tendency is towards bad desicions, so no one would choose you like in a team or for work because they know that your not capable of keeping a promise an will never triust on you.
By other means if you have suffered a great deal in life, the obvious is you would want better things for you and your life, so the next step is planning your goals and having objectives and alternatives that are used as second options but remeber this, nothing is impossible do not think the alternatives are used because the others are hard and unreachable. A motivated person that has the entire life ahead is capable of being reasonable and wise. Take advantage of all the opportunities, because in this world the one who stays without work and being unuseful remaining ignorant of any abilities and knowledge will certainly have a very poor and mediocre life.

For me the meaning of this quote is to take the juice of life altough it may present me with some very harsh and difficult situations, it was meant to be  life will never come free, it costs to learn and improve yourself  where yoiu lack the most. I consider myself that I am a fighter, to obtain what I want and most desire, I have seen many cases were people don't end a good career and in life begging for second chances when they don't deserve because they haven't demonstrated themselves as capable of being autonomous. This is very sad but that is one of the reasons I shall keep on show the example as it says in the quote and do my best.

Summary of Part Three, "The End Of Ruling"

Previously in Things Fall Apart we were left with the great devastation of the white men taking charge in every aspect, but then  comes the end.. the end of everything  falling apart.

Okonkwo’s years in exile were far tiring, desperate and difficult. In every way he tried to figure out what he would do when returning to Umofia. He had five new sons and made sure he taught them very well that what his older brother Nwoye done, by uniting to the white men was erroneous. Ezinma had grown into a beautiful women, many suitors wanted to marry her but she kept her promise of her father's will, that had asked to marry in Umofia when they returned.

Many changes had occurred here in Mbanta, evry day and each people allied to the white men's religion, one of the first men who did it was Ogbuefi Ugonna who received the holy communion and broke his title anklet, another change that a government was installed a court followed with a District Commissioner who judge unwisely and ignorantly most cases, court messengers were hated.

 By the means of things getting even wose, one day Obierika, Okonkwo’s friend came and spoke how Abame had been kicked out by the white men. They had lost their courage and were disgraced.

In Umofia thingsevolved more quickly, a trading store was set and money fled through the tribe when never in their history a thing of such matter happened. Mr Brown the white missionary soon became friends with the people, he was gentle and kind towards their beliefs and offered lessons were he demonstrated that both religions had similarities but were interpreted in a different way, he built a small hospital and a school, asking to send the children and to not be afraid soon lots of people did so and learned. Soon Mr. Brown was getting old and would leave it was in the rainy season when Okonkwo returned from his exile, that Mr. Brown came to pay him a visit and inform of his son Isaac but he was commanded to leave, people didn’t notice much of his returning and Okonkwo flet grieved because of his clan breaking.

The successor of Mr. Brown was Reverend Smith, he was a dull, squared man and thought that it was not needed for a large group of people to be followers of the religion but rather those who deserved it by showing it.
Enoch one of the tribesmen was a rebel and confused religion, one day during the annual ceremony for their earth godess, he said to the egwuwus(masked spirits) they would not dare touch a Christians at what they approached and pushed with canes but Enoch quickly fell over one of them and unmasked the spirit; this was considered a great crime as one of their beliefs. Enoch quickly ran to Mr Smith and hide their, he was afraid they might kill him, immediately the egwuwus found them and broke in the church, they told him not to worry they would not do any harm but in real the shrine was to be destroyed and so it was burnt.

Okonkwo felt happy that something was done, altough for short but effective enough to scare the white men, the next following week nothing happened. The district commissionaire had come to Umofia and spoke with Mr. Smith, soon the six leaders of the tribe were summoned to come visit the commissionaire, they were received politely and talked calmly but what they did not know that this was a trap. They were locked up on the guardroom. They remained for several days and the conditions were terrible, they were shaved and hit on the head, they could not go urinate, there was no food and Okonkwo was really angry at them.

The messenger was sent to town to tell all the people that in order to release their leaders they should give 250 cowries.(the 50 cowries were stolen by the messenger), people obeyed and they were released.

Feeling ashamed and reluctant of the white men was something konkwo could not bear, Ezinma prepared his father food, but he barely ate, the village crier announced by his gong the next day a meeting would be held and Okonkwo finally thought they were going to speak up of all the injustices. That night he could not sleep. He remembered of a man of their tribe Egonwanne who was a coward and the obstacle of Umofia, he decided he would talk to him the next day.

The next day was expressed that all their gods were suffering and that action shall be taken, when all were getting excited of what to do a white messenger passed and ordered that the meeting be dismissed, Okonkwo who had much hatred towards the white men, stood up and lift his machete and cut off his head.

The rumors had fled that Okonkwo had killed, the district comissionare was searching and asked but nobody knew, Obierika knew he was at his house and so led them toward it by a bush and saw Okonkwo was dead hanging in a tree, the comisionare asked him to unhang him but he told him that was against their custom and then exclaimed he was one of the greatest men in Umofia and to reflect onwhat he had done. But the men just stared and ordered the chief messenger to unhang him. The comisionare had written a book about the “primitive” or so he called them mocking their traditions and their way of being and in the end we can see how white man have ruled since then, they think everything is meant for them to be served, to be praised and they have the reason. Humanity was not meant to be discriminatory,it is a shame we can learn from other people customs and end up killing them because they are not "like us" but people tend to close their minds on things that to them don't make sense but really do, things are done unfairly but in the end they lose for not being a person of common sense and feeling less, and what is more inhuman is hatred building up inside yourself like a snake poisining you and do actions you would not do. What is the use of making someone feel they are worth less than you and make believe that what he/she was taught is wrong and lived in a lie when if we can't even know what we belive in is not there to be verified.