The Ibo Society reveals its own sunderings into privileged and marginalized colonial groups by basically three factors. The first two factors the people of the Ibo have no control over. Women have basically no rights in this society, and are collected as cattle by men, who have multiple wives, but women who are able to bare more children are held with greater esteem then those who cannot. The "First" wife is basically the leader of …showed first 75 words of 329 total…

…showed last 75 words of 329 total…given another title. The higher the title the more privileges that man will receive. The Ibo follow very strict laws that many of the surrounding clans do not follow as strictly. I think that the strict way the Ibo follow these laws that they follow so sacred is foreshadowing what will be their demise for the fact that they will not be able to adapt when the white man (which many have never seen) comes.