... pass on traditions and customs to their tribe's youth. The elders are the ones who usually tell the myths and stories from the past because they are the one's who have heard these stories from their ancestors and known the importance they hold. Elders also known the most about the tribes beliefs because they are the closest to seeing and understanding the origins and emergence of these values and beliefs when these beliefs began. It is the oldest men who remember the past mistakes that were made and the past reprcautions that were the result. When Okonkwo breaks the Week of Peace it is the elders who told stories of people in the past who have also broken the Week of Peace and what happened to them. In this part of the book the wise old man Ogbuefi Ezeudu answers the questions of inquiring men about the past and he ...

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