"Mother is Supreme"

Okonkwo thinks that his life is awful because he got exiled to his mother's homeland. Uchendu gives a speech to him about how Okonkwo's life isn't bad at all. Uchendu tells him about how he lost all of his wives and most of his children, and how Okonkwo still has all of his wives and children and everything. Okonkwo is disrespecting his mother and her homeland because he doesn't want to be there. Uchendu says that his mother was there to help Okonkwo and to not displease the dead by denying help. Uchendu tries to make Okonkwo have more respect for his mother and her homeland, because usually a family revolves around the father and the women in the family are his servants. Uchendu tells about how the children belong to the father, not the mother, and how the father belongs to his fatherland and not his motherland. He asks Okonkwo why he thinks this is true and Okonkwo says he does not know why. Uchendu then tells Okonkwo that he isn't as smart as he thinks he is, that he is still a child. Uchendu wants Okonkwo to appreciate his life and he tries to get Okonkwo to appreciate his mother.