4 August 2008

Entry 19

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I was wonder how the people of Umuofia deal ed with domestic arguments. They have a very cool judging system where they have a bunch of wise men dress up and they all believe that these people are truly gods and respect them as such even though they could tell which one was Okonkwo. It is a very simple judicial system. Both parties say what they have to and then the judges decide, they are the judge, jury, and executioners. I like their system because it is easy, then again they don't need a big complex system for just a little village because no one every does anything terribly wrong. Murder doesn't even get the life sentence, you just have to flee for like seven years. What is really cool is how the people take responsibility for their own actions (mostly).