The narrator cares about the elephant and finds it valuable.
I hope this hint helps!
(the other answer is wrong btw!)
He hung himself because he didn’t want to “shame the earth goddess.” The Igbo community and the entirety of the Umuofian society considered suicide to be one of the worst commitable crimes ever. To kill oneself while touching the ground was considered disrespectful to the earth gods and therefore he hung himself from the trees.
Hope this helped. The book is pretty good, if you have any more questions on it let me know since I just finished reading this for an AP class.
Some main ideas/points that were addressed were.
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- Further improvements in providing Americans health care;
- Enacting immigration reform;<span>a smarter national security approach including the War On Terror and the war in Afghanistan (the longest U.S. war);
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- Moving the country off of a permanent war footing while laying out his case for "strong and principled diplomacy"
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- Calling for Congress to give U.S. diplomats some room to maneuver, particularly when it comes to Iran
- And </span><span>improvements to education to ready Americans for the jobs of tomorrow's economy.</span></span>
