Chapter
14
- Okonkwo is exiled to Mbanta his
motherland where his uncle Uchendu gives him warmth and comfort with his
family, he is given by all of his cousins 300 yams so he can start a new
farm and a good quantity of land so he can make his Ibo and the huts of
his family. Okonkwo gets really depressed for his exile and when Uchendu
notices this he talks with him and tells him that he is not the greatest
sufferer in the world that there are people who get exiled for all their
lives or even killed. In this Chapter Uchendu tells Okonkwo that his
mother's land will always be available for him and relates it to when a
father slaps a kid he goes for comfort with its mother.
Chapter
15
- Two years have passed since
Okonkwo's exile and a friend of him, Obierika visits him bringing two
bags, which later in the chapter we find out that they are yams from
Okonwko's ex- farms in his tribe which Obierika had been working for him
and he gives the yams to Okonkwo. He also tells that a Village named Abame
was attacked by white men after one of them was killed when he came to
town due to the oracles; they predicted that the white man would bring
chaos and would destroy the village. So they killed the man and tied in
what the white man arrived to the town which was thought as an iron horse.
time later more white men came and saw the iron horse tied, then they
left, nothing happened until one day they infiltrated the town market and
out of nowhere they brought out their guns and began murdering everyone in
there, the only ones who survived where the old men and the sick ones who
could not go to the market... When Uchendu realizes that the first white
man had said nothing only things in other languages when he was killed he
says that the men of Abame are fools for killing him, Okonkwo thinks the
same although he adds that the men should have armed when the oracle said
the prediction. In this Chapter the story of Mother Kite is as a reference
to the people in Abame as killing the silent white man.
Chapter
16
- Obierika returns to Mbanta to
visit Okonkwo again but this time because he has seen Nwoye with some
Christian missionaries, Christianity is getting more and more followers
but these are efulefu (men who are not worth anything or hold any title.)
Okonkwo doesn’t speak about Nwoye and Nwoye says that Okonkwo isn't his
father so Nwoye tells Obierika What had happened. Men Came to Mbanta with
an interpreter called Mr. Kaiga, they speak of religion and tell that the
gods they worshiped in the villages werent real and were fake, there was
only one God creator of everything, people in the town mock him by
laughing when the interpreter says "my buttocks" every time he
means "myself" they also don’t agree in the holy trinity and how
God could have a son without having a wife. Okonkwo is angry and goes away
as much of the other people who were listening, but Nwoye is really
persuaded by this man due to the fact that this God won’t make the people
kill themselves or some of the evil things that their fake wooden and
stone gods, meaning that the twins he hears in the evil forest and
Ikemufuna would still be alive if people followed this one and only
God.
Chapter
17
- The missionaries want a place
where to build a church. the elders and the leaders of the clan gather and
discuss whether giving them or not this piece of land they want, they come
to the conclusion of giving them part of their evil forest so missionaries
will confront the same fate as everyone who was sent there and people in
the town will realize how powerful their gods are once again. They say
that by the fourth day, the missionaries will be no more. The missionaries
are given the land and begin the construction of the church, as the days
pass people begin to hope missionaries’ death, but when four days pass and
more keep on passing people lose faith in their mighty gods due to the
fact that the missionaries are still perfectly fine.
Chapter
18
- The church has new followers,
sadly they are the outcasts, people from church want Mr. Kaiga to kick
them out but then he says they are sons of god to and lets them into Christianity
only if they cut their long hair and beards... Another day one sacred
python has been killed by one of the people converted to Christians and
Mbanta wants to do something and Okonkwo wants revenge and to lead the Christians
out of their... when the tribe is about to attack they are told that the
man who killed the python died, then they decide not to attack due to the fact
that it was proven that their gods can still fight their own battles.
Chapter 19
- almost seven years have passed
since Okonkwo was exiled meaning this that he would return in no time to
his homeland, he decides to throw a feast for all his family who helped
him during this tough years although he feels bad due to the fact that he
knew he could have been more important in his homeland and earned more
titles by the time that had gone past. Here Okonkwo's kinsmen speak very
good of the feast and how Okonkwo thinks having kinsmen reunions are
important and how the young people will have to suffer due to the fact of
Christians and how they are worried for them.
