Chapter 6
- The Wrestling match takes place, starting with kids of 15 and 16 years. the son of one of Okonkwo's friend wins a match and the matches keep on, some women begin to talk one of them Ekwefi and the other one a priestess. They talk about how a girl who has passed 10 is now "to stay." At the end of the Chapter a guy named Okafo who won against Ikezue is to represent the Village wrestling.
Chapter 7
- 3 years have passed since Ikemufua has been under Okonkwo's care, he has bonded with all his family and has been taken as a son for Okonkwo because he is like a son he never had, one who worked well and wasn’t lazy as Nwoye, although he has changed to, he has learned to be manlier throughout the years now just to please his father. Locusts begin to appear in the tribe, thing that happens once every generation for seven years and this is something the clan expects because they are great to eat... People even have stories about them and tales, Ogbuefi comes to Okonkwo's hut just to tell him that Ikemufuna must be killed as the Oracle said, Okonkwo is sad and he is told not to interfere with this matter. Later on he lies to Ikemufuna and to Nwoye telling them that he will be coming back to his family... they both end sad and the journey begins. Many men escort Ikemufuna outside the village and soon tell Ikemufuna not to look back, he only thinks of seeing his family and mother, he thinks she might be dead, he also thinks about his sister who might not recognize him because he was taken when she was only 3. Then Ikemufuna feels how a man attacks him with a machete and he turns running to Okonkwo screaming “My father, they have killed me!" Okonwko finishes him in order to not seem weak. When he returns home, Nwoye knows Ikemufuna had died and felt so sad but he didn’t cry, he tells he felt this way when he heard some cries coming from the Evil Forrest long ago from babies, babies who were sent there because they were twins.
Chapter 8
- Okonkwo is sad due to Ikemufuna's death and gets really depressed. Ezinma each day brings him his food and makes sure he eats it. Okonkwo always thinks she should have been a boy and then he goes to Obierika's hut. Obierika disagrees with Okonkwo helping to kill Ikemefuna and tells him it wasn't right to do such a thing like that. Obierika tells Okonkwo some men are comming to his hut to buy her daughter for marriage. The final agreement is 25 broomsticks for the girl but when the payment must be done the husband's family will pay with cowries(their currency) instead of broomsticks. this chapter ends with the men talking about white men and how they are.
Chapter 9
- Ezinma is sick and Ekfewi wakes up Okonkwo warning him that she is dying... Ekwefi tells us about the other kids she had when younger and everyone died... she was told she had a kid demon inside of her womb and in each birth the demon was born in her child and killed them, then it came back to her womb. She began naming her kids with mocking names for death. Okonkwo helps taking care of Enzima and we are informed that at the age of 9 she was given a stone to burry in soil which was a link to the demon and the spiritual world, this to make sure the demon would be trapped.
Chapter 10
- The village joins in an event of justice and men diguised as egwugwu's (ancestral spirits) appear from a house where no women are allowed and the women and kids become very scared, the wives of Okonkwo think that he may be amongst the men disguised. there is a problem with a man and his wife, the man claims that his family in law took the girl without asking nor repaying what he payed for her when they married. The family tells the egwugwu that he has hit her many times and treats her very bad and thats why they made those things. the spirits tell the husband that he will have his genitals cut off if he ever does that again to her. Elders begin to speak of how silly it is to bring such matters to the spirits.
Chapter 11
- Ekwefi tells ezinma a story about a tortoise that tricks birds to give him wings and fly to heaven where it takes advantage of the birds and tricks them so he can eat all of the food at a banquet the heaven people prepared for the birds, the birds get angry and take the tortoise wings away from it. the tortoise tells one of the birds to tell tortoise's wife to put all of the soft things outside the house so he can jump to saftey but instead the bird tells the wife to bring out all the heavy things making the tortoise break its shell. someone repairs tortoise's shell and that is why tortoises have hard shells. when the story ends, Chielo (the priestess) takes Ezinma away because she is told the oracle wants to see her. Ekfewi follows from a distance Chielo in the night only hearing her footsteps and chants. They travel all the villages and at the end Ekwefi waits in a cave Chielo had entered, she is scared by Okonkwo who followed with a machete and they remember how Okonkwo took her into her hut when she escaped from her old husband to be with Okonkwo.
Chapter 12
- Okonkwo's family is preparing a pre-wedding ceremony for Obierika's daughter, where the husband's family is going to pay the girl's price and some stuff of the wedding, that day at dawn Chielo had already brought back Ezinma and put her in her hut. Ezinma wakes up and helps her family organize the ceremony.The ceremony goes on untill a neigbhour let's his cows loose. it comes back to joy again after. Okonkwo tells Obierika that if the family of the husband doesn't bring more than 30 pots of wine he will get mad but they end up bringing 50 pots so he becomes happy. Obierika kills goats and makes food with them. The biggest one, he gives it to the husband's family as a gift and the ceremony ends happy
Chapter 13
- Ogbuefi Ezeudu dies and there is a ceremony for his burial. There are cannon shots to honor him and gun shots to the air. Everyone is gathered to dance and in the center of the dance a boy colapses...he was de dead man's sixteen year old grandson. A shot Okonkwo's gun accidentally fired, he is blamed for murdered and exiled for seven years of the tribe, he sends his family to a town nearby where his mother lives and then relatives of Ezedu burn all of Okonkwo's possetions Obierika remembers at the end of the chapter when his twins were sent to the evil woods and left them there to die. this chapter tells us when things begin to fall apart for Okonkwo's perfect life he had built upon the years and the title begins to make sense with the book.
Chapter
1
- Okonkwo is an Igbo Native from
the Umuofia clan. He won the respect of all the clan when he defeated
Amalizine the Cat in a wrestling match when younger. He earned the respect
of all nine villages which make the clan. With this win Okonkwo's tribe
"Iguedo" became more important within the nine. Although his
name might be known all over the clan with respect, his father wasn’t...
Unoka, Okonkwo's father was lazy and a no one within the village, the only
thing he was good at was to play music, he borrowed a lot of money but
never paid back and as Okonkwo grew older he began to hate and feel pity
for him for being such a failure.
Chapter
2
- The chapter begins with the
town carrier gathering every men of the clan to the market to inform that
someone from a neighbor village (Mbaino) killed someone's wife from the
tribe when she was at the local market... Everyone reacts angrily and send
Okonkwe as a messenger because he is the greatest warrior in the clan and
everyone knows him because he has taken the head of 5 hostiles during
battle to the hostile tribe in order to make a peace arrangement before
they went to a war in which Umuofia would most certainly win because of
their great reputation as warriors... The peace treaty consisted in giving
Okonkwo's tribe a Virgin and a young man. The tribe accepts the offering
and sends a Woman that would become Ogbuefi Udoe's wife due to the elder’s
choice dead wife and a young lad named ikemufuna, this kid is sent to
Okonkwo because no one knew what to do with him and he sends Ikemufuna
with his first wife. Okonkwo has treated his 3 wives and 8 children bad,
and very strict, he hated everything his father had loved. Nwoye his
eldest son was the laziest of them all so he suffers a lot when his father
is nearby and has to stand all of his beatings.
Chapter
3
- This chapter tells how Okonkwo earns
all of his wealth, Unoka, his father as I told before was a failure and
had many debts, the oracle said this was due to his laziness so Okonkwo
couldn't use his father to start his richness, here it is told that Unoka
died because of a swelling that in the tribe it is one of the most shameful
things that can happen to someone. If you die by this, you can’t be buried
because it would be an offense to Mother Nature so they send you to the Evil
Forrest to die. Okonwo starts his farm by asking someone already wealthy
within the clan named Nwakibie to lend him 400 seed yams (which they used
as currency in the clan) but he instead gives Okonkwo 800 because he has
always been a hard worker. He began his farm with those and 400 yams more that
a friend gave him. He suffered a lot the first time with the harvest due
to the weather and almost lost everything, but he tells that making some
of the crops survive proves the strength he had.
Chapter
4
- Peace week surrounds the
village, during this week there is no violence in all the clan, this to
make the crops better and bigger during the year. Ikemufuna and Nwoye
begin to make a great bond as if they were good brothers, but not only
Nwoye makes a bond with him, Okonkwo also begins to bond with this lad,
although he doesn’t show it because he says it only would only prove
weakness it is shown... Ikemufuna begins calling him father. One day
Okonkwo comes to his hut and sees there is no food on the table, soon he
realizes that one of his wives, the one who was in charge of serving him,
was braiding her hair in another hut. When he finds her, he starts to beat
her hard although his other 2 wives implore him not to. This makes him get
a punishment for interfering with the peace week. He is to sacrifice a
hen, a goat, give 100 cowries (another form of currency) and give out some
cloth. After the week of peace he begins to settle the land for the crops
with Ikemufuna and Nwoye, they do a bad work and Okonwko criticizes them
knowing they do not understand farming as well as he does, at the end
Ikemufuna tells some tales from home to the Family.
Chapter 5
- Before
crops are ready the village throws a feast for the New Yam which makes everyone
decorate their huts, paint themselves with creative designs and they throw all
their old yams to bring in the new ones. Okonkwo isn’t a fan of the feasts
because he thinks it’s a time for laziness. In a point of the chapter Okonkwo
beats his wife Ekwefi and then begins to get ready to begin to hunt. His wife
mocks him in a whispering voice that he has never shot his rifle and that’s why
he is so bad at it so Okonkwo turns around and shoots her, he misses... Each
year along with the Feast there is also the wrestling match in which many years
ago, Okonkwo made Ekwifi fall in love with him when he defeated the Cat. So
much that she escaped from her current husband to be with him. In Okonkwo's hut
Ezinma, Ekwefi's Daughter serves Okonkwo his meal and as the chapter goes on
Okonkwo makes notice that he really likes her but doesn’t act like it that
much. Then another two of Okonkwo's daughters wait for him to finish his food.
Chapter
6
- The Wrestling match takes
place, starting with kids of 15 and 16 years. the son of one of Okonkwo's
friend wins a match and the matches keep on, some women begin to talk one
of them Ekwefi and the other one a priestess. They talk about how a girl
who has passed 10 is now "to stay." At the end of the Chapter a
guy named Okafo who won against Ikezue is to represent the Village
wrestling.
Chapter
7
- 3 years have passed since
Ikemufua has been under Okonkwo's care, he has bonded with all his family
and has been taken as a son for Okonkwo because he is like a son he never
had, one who worked well and wasn’t lazy as Nwoye, although he has changed
to, he has learned to be manlier throughout the years now just to please
his father. Locusts begin to appear in the tribe, thing that happens once
every generation for seven years and this is something the clan expects
because they are great to eat... People even have stories about them and
tales, Ogbuefi comes to Okonkwo's hut just to tell him that Ikemufuna must
be killed as the Oracle said, Okonkwo is sad and he is told not to
interfere with this matter. Later on he lies to Ikemufuna and to Nwoye
telling them that he will be coming back to his family... they both end
sad and the journey begins. Many men escort Ikemufuna outside the village
and soon tell Ikemufuna not to look back, he only thinks of seeing his
family and mother, he thinks she might be dead, he also thinks about his
sister who might not recognize him because he was taken when she was only
3. Then Ikemufuna feels how a man attacks him with a machete and he turns
running to Okonkwo screaming “My father, they have killed me!"
Okonwko finishes him in order to not seem weak. When he returns home,
Nwoye knows Ikemufuna had died and felt so sad but he didn’t cry, he tells
he felt this way when he heard some cries coming from the Evil Forrest
long ago from babies, babies who were sent there because they were twins.
