Kieana Owens
pd. 1

After his son's wife wrote that letter to Okeke he didn't want to die having pain in his heart of never forgiving his son and meeting his grandson's. I think that Okeke will not stick with his traditional beliefs because he probably thinks that family comes first before anything now. The last sentence in the story stated that he didn't want to go to sleep because he feared that he wouldn't wake up not knowing his grandson's.

Okeke now feels the shame and guilt that he has put upon himself over the years. I think that he misses his son and finally wants to give his son's wife a chance no matter what tribe she is apart of . When Okeke sees his grandson's thats when I think his eyes will fill up with tears and he would wonder why he shut his son out the way he did for so many years.

Love should comes first in a family and your family shouldn't care who you marry as long as your happy. All these traditions and beliefs should be erased from the world and let people live the way they want to live. Okeke was wrong for what he did and he realized what a huge mistake he had made.

I think the first big step his admitting your guilt or wrong then trying to make the situation right, now matter how long its been. I can never imagine myself shutting out my family for my spouse or the other way around. We all are going to be around each other everyday until there is love in the air.

That is what Okeke should have done he could have at least given his son's wife a chance before shutting them out, but I guess everybody doesn't think like that. Traditions are traditions and rules are rules and that is changing no time soon.