A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

While reading "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" it made me think of how easily people are manipulated in our world.  The story story makes the clear point that it is easy and sometimes even by change that people are able to keep the weak down.  All to often groups of people use power to be cruel to others.  Power is often a relative aspect that even when people are themselves being oppressed they will turn and oppress others.  It is clear in the story that the family cares little fore the Old Man and is only interested in him when they can make a profit.  They share none of their recently gained wealth with him even though he is the reason they have achieved it.  Today even though in many ways aspects have improved there are still many people that are being oppressed.  It is important for us to remember when we see some one or thing different that we react in a human way and seek to not only understand it but also provide compassion.  

Things Fall Apart Revisited

While reading Things Fall Apart for the third time, I read it in High School and College, I came across a recent article about Nigeria by Chinua Achebe. In this article Achebe speaks to many of the modern problems which many post-colonial nations are dealing with.  Achebe looks at colonialism though a long historical perspective and does not use it as an excuse to why, in this example Nigeria is rife with problems but rather an reason to be examined in order to develop methods to solve the problems which colonialism created. 

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