I though Achebe’s writing was very interesting. I connect most with the story "Girls at War." I though the text grabbed my attention immediately because of its irony. I feel irony is something that truly does happen in day to day life. My views and opinions were not highly challenged by this text because I connected with it so well. In the story Nwankwo makes a profit off of the war, but he doesn’t fully agree with it. The story goes along with how everything Achebe writes is not what he believes. The end of the story grabbed my attention the most because Gladdy and the solider were killed. At first I just could not understand why Achebe would do that. Why would he kill of that solider? But I quickly learned the irony in that. Both of the good characters were killed off and the selfish business man survives. I feel situations like this happen often.
I also liked Achebe’s story "The Madman." I also had a lot of personal connections with story as well. "The Madman" showed how much society and the public’s perspective of you play a role in your life. The man becomes "crazy" because he is treated crazy. I feel in today’s society a lot of girls do things because of what they see in magazines or on television. Then after they do what they see everyone else is doing, they are ridiculed by society. I very much enjoyed Achebe’s stories and thought they were very entertaining and relatable for his audience even thought it was written in in a different time and place.
I like your comment about how irony is really about daily life. I agree: knowing this can make tough situations almost funny because I can step back and say, "Well, that's ironic." I like how you got the punctuation marks correct for both stories: yay! You make a great connection between the "The Madman" and fashion in America. In your next blog posting, see if you can go into a little more detail about your reasoning process; for example, write a little more about the thinking process you used to come to your conclusions.
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