The story of Mother Kite

“The story of Mother Kite”

Chapter 15

María Fernanda González Obregón

Group: 46

This is the story about mother Kite, once, she sent her daughter to bring her food. First, the daughter brought a duckling. “What did the mother of the duckling do when you took its child away? Asked Mother Kite.  “It said nothing” replied the baby kite. So Mother Kite told her daughter to return that baby and go for something else,  the daughter brought a chick. The daughter told her mom that the mother of the chick cried and raved when he tried to take it away.  “Then we can eat the chick” said the mother.

What we can learn about this story is that people are not what they seem to be. What I mean by this is that most of the times the people that look more inoffensive are the worst; sometimes the ones that are always quiet, are the ones that are planning something to hurt you, they have something weird inside of them. And the people that scream and shout won’t do anything to you,  it is just to get you scared.  “There is something ominous behind the silence” “There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts”

The lesson that Uchendu wants to teach with this story is to never kill a man who says nothing. He tells this story to illustrate his point about how Abame men were fools. He considered them fools because they were all killed by men that no one knew about, as if they were invisible. They were invisible because they were quiet…  We have no fear from someone who is quiet.

·         Achebe, C.

Things Fall Apart
Achebe, C. (1958) Things Fall Apart. New York: Reed Consumer Books.