Chapter 1.
In chapter 1 the author sets the stage for the story that tells of the main character, Okonkwo's, life and gives more background on his past leading to the present. Okonkwo's father, Unkoa was a failure unlike the other fathers in the village. " He was poor and his wife and children had barely enough to eat. People laughed at him necause he was a loafer, and they swore never to lend him any more money because he never paid back." With this family background of Okonkwo's father, this puts Okonkwo's life at a rough start after his father died being heavily in debt. Okonkwo wasn't judged by his father's worth because he created a name for himself amongst the nine villages as a wealthy yam farmer and great wrestler. Okonkwo was young and ate with kings and elders as many hoped for.
Chapter 2.
The people of the Mbaino tribe have murdered a daughter or woman of the Umuosfia tribe in the market where they all gathered for the meeting to discuss the murder. In the meeting of the tribes there was a thirst for blood as anger arose from the feeling of betrayal and the verge of war between tribes. As for the crime committed by the neighboring tribe, one girl from Mbaino was given to Umuosifa and a boy named Ikemefuna was admitted to the clan that okonkwo ruled. Okonkwo took Ikemefuna in for three years until his fate would be decided. As the story continue, you learn about Okonkwo's strict, fierce rule in his house hold and his aspirations for his lazy son, Nwoye. Now Ikemefuna has to get aquainted with Umuosfia customs and Okonkwo's parenting.
Chapter 3.
This chapter tells of Okonkwo's upbringing by telling of his disadvantages to having a naive and lazy father and not inheriting posessions that every other boy in the tribe was passed down. Okonkwo's father had nothing to pass down for he was a broke flute player that never accomplished anything and was the scum of the clan. As seeing this as a child and growing up first hand to the sluggish lifestyle of a peasant, Okonkwo made it his priority to become a better man than his father, Unoka, in every way. In doing so, Okonkwo became a wealthy yam farmer and well known head clan wrestler.
Chapter 4.
As Okonkwo comes from poverty to being like a king of the clan, He knows that he must teach his son Nwoye the manly ways along with Ikemefuna. He tells them of his war stories in battle and bringing home his first head trying to spark excitement and aspiration in the two boys minds to become more like him. Ikemefuna takes in the stories like a sponge and Nwoye goes into deep thought of being more fond of his mothers' ways of compassion and peace by remembering all the stories she would tell him as a child. Nwoye now is choosing to leave that all behind as he see Ikemefuna taking in Okonkwo's stories and making him proud as he should've done. Nwoye now sees Ikemefuna s a big brother over time of working together in the yam farm and trying to excel in his father's aspirations and plans for him. As Nwoye starts having his lazy, uninspired ways changed for the better, things take unexpected turn. Okonkwo now after three years of living and bonding with Ikemefuna and seeing him as the son that he always wanted, the oracle is called on Ikemefuna's fate of death.
Chapter 5.
The yam festival is among the Umuofia people and other neighboring villages and there are games, stories, food, and wrestling. Everyone is in preparation for the big event and they can't wait to have a fun evening but Okonkwo would rather work on his yam farm. Okonkwo doesn't care for feasts or parties and always feels they are a waste of work time. After a while of doing nothing Okonkwo gets aggravated and wants to go hunting with his gun. His wife Ekwefi says something under her breathe and Okonkwo hears her and shoots the gun at her missing. The next day was the wrestling event and Ekwefi is excited because she's always loved wrestling especially because that's how Okonkwo won her heart but he couldn't pay the bride-price. Since, Okonkwo couldn't pay the price Ekwefi ran away from her last husband and went to live with Okonkwo.
Chapters 6-9.
The wrestling matches have started and the younger boys are up to wrestle before the main event which are the men from different villages. Maduka, the son of Obierika, who is Okonkwo's best friend is wrestling first up and impresses Okonkwo in his match by reminding him of himself and being strong on the take downs. Later on the priest of the village, Chielo, tells Ekwefi that Ezinma has lived through her illnesses and my be here to stay because most girls do not make it past age six. Chielo is certain by this assumption because the oracle of the hills and caves has told him so. In chapter seven, Ikemefuna has now sparked a little inspiration in Nwoye as they listened to Okonkwo's masculine stories of war and battle. Nwoye is starting to change his ways now, but just as he is getting fond of Ikemefuna word from the elders come in. Okonkwo invites the elder in but the matter was so serious he refused. The news told to Okonkwo was that the oracle had beem told of Ikemefunas' fate. He must be killed and Okonkwo should have nothing to do with it because Ikemefuna has now called him "father'. Okonkwo lies to Ikemefuna saying he will take him back to his old village so no one would be suspicious, but everyone in the compound knew what was going to occur. After Okonkwo and the other clan members killed Ikemefuna, this made the whole family frightened of Okonkwo. Even worse it made Nwoye resent him and resort back to his old ways of laziness. Meanwhile everyone was in shock, Okonkwo was internal lost at the fact that he had killed the only true son he felt could carry on his legacy with honor. Okonkwo fell into a deep depression and wouldn't eat for days. In chapter eight, Okonkwo is feeling very down that he even participated in the killing, and won't eat and can't sleep. He wishes that he had some work to take his mind off of the situation but it was the resting season between the harvest and planting of new crops. Another crisis strangely arose later on that the eldest man of a neighboring village had died and shortly after his wife died as well. Okonkwo and others ponder how close the husband and wife were and that in fact they did everything together. Shortly after that mysterious death conversation has passed, Obierika talks about bride-price with his brother in-law along with, tapping palm wine, and other work. But he tells the Okonkwo and others of a white man where you cannot see his toes but ends up talking about leprosy. In chapter 9, Ezinma is dying of an illness and Ekwefi wakes Okonkwo with the news that she has a fever and needs medicine. The relationship between Ekwefi and Ezinma is an equal one because Ezinma treats her mother as a friend and often gives her advice on what to cook because she is wiser that her age. Ezinma calls her mother by her name instead of mom because it just fits her and feels equal with her. In Ekwefi's past, she has lost many children and often predicted they would die so she would name them african names meaning "hope you stay" and "death". When Ezinma was born, she had many illnesses like most babies but survived all of them and a medicine man named Okagbue Uyanwa found her iyi-uwa, the small, pebble that linked the dead babies to the spirit world.
Chapter 10-15.
There is a dispute and egwugwu has to decided the judgement of the case by hearing both sides of the story. Egwugwu are ancestral spirits of the clan that are dressed in black robes. Okonkwo is believed to be in the group by the way one of the spirits are bounding around as he does in his wrestling matches. The first case to come forth among the Egwugwu is that a husband has had his wife taken from him by her brothers and they are holding her captive and refuse to give her back. The brothers of the wife accuse Uzowulu of mercilessly beating his wife into miscarriage once and beating her everyday. They argue that Uzowulu must agree to beg for Mgbafo back, and if she agrees, that if she were ever beaten again Uzowulu would have his genital cut off. Egwugwu rules in favor of Mgbafo and one villager complains of the verdict. In chapter 11, Ekwefi tells Ezinma of a cunning and greedy tortoise that tricks a bird into changing its name to "all of you" and lending him feathers to get up to the feast. The bird gets angry because the tortoise is eating good while the bird gets the scraps. The bird takes away its feathers and the tortoise persuades the parrot to give his wife a message to cover the ground with something soft to land on. The parrot sneakily tells tortoises' wfie to bring out hard things and when the tortoise jumped he broke his shell and a medicine man put it back together. This explained why its shell isn't smooth. Later after the story, Ezinma is called into a cave by the oracle and Ekwefi is scared but there to protect her even if it is against a God. Okonkwo arrives at the cave with a machete and frightens Ekwefi with it. Okonkwo sat with her awaiting the Oracle's outcome with Ekwefi comforting her. Ekwefi remembers when she ran away from her first husband, that when she came to Okonkwos' door and knocked, he opened up without words undressing her. Chapter 12, without saying anything chielo exits the cave with Ezinma on her back and chielo takes her back home and puts her to bed. Okonkwo not showing his true emotions for the whole situation, was drastically worried about Ezinma against the Gods. Meanwhile, Obierika's daughter is about to be married and Obierika gives a goat to his In-laws and the villagers are worried about the suitors' generosity. The suitors' family generously bring 50 pots of palm wine and everyone is happy. In chapter 13, Ogbuefi Ezeudu's death is announced by sounding of instruments and a big ceremony is put on because he has taken 3 of the 4 clan's titles as a warrior. Guns and drums are sounded in honor of his funeral but Okonkwo's gun accidentally goes off killing Ezeudu's sixteen year old son. With this crim Okonkwo and his family are forced to pack up and be exiled for seven year into another tribe. To rid themselves of Okonkwo's actions against the clan, they kill all his animals and burn his house down. Obierika asks the council why such a harsh punishment for an accident but no reply. In chapter 14, Okonkwo arrives back in his motherland village where he grew up while he is in exile. Okonkwo now lives among his uncle, Uchendu and the rest of his kingsmen who give him a new compound and yam farm to live on until their exile is up. Okonkwo now has alot of work to do with starting over with a new yam farm other than his old one he has built on for years. Okonkwo is now disappointed that he may have messed up his chance to be one of the lords of his clan by becoming exiled from the village. Meanwhile he still participates in Unchendu's sons' wedding all feelings aside. The next day Uchendu tells the family and Okonkwo of the name Nneke meaning "Mother is supreme". He tells them that a man will stay in his fatherland when things are going well but look for shelter and help when his life becomes hard and harsh. This reflects on Okonkwo's situation of him running back to his motherland where his uncle and family are located. Chapter 15, While Okonkwo was in his second year of exile Obierika went to go deliver crowies to him and news of the clan which turned out to be bad. A white man on a iron horse, a bicycle, came through during planting season.The oracle told that with one white man that there would come more to destroy Abame. So with this being said they killed the white man and disposed of the "iron horse" so no other white men could find him.About a week later the white men found the man's bike and guessed he was killed by the Abame tribe so they surrounded the market killing everyone in it.Unchendu asks obierika what did the White man say at first but they didn't understand his language. Obierika continues to come visit to bring Okonkwo his money for selling his yams to sharecroppers or people in need of yam. Obierka continues this until Okonkwo is able to return to Iguedo.
Chapters 16-20.
In this chapter (16), Obierika has come back to visit two years after his first visit and learns of Nwoye's convert ways to the white man's religion. The White men in this chapter send an interpreter to try and teach and convert the villagers of Mbanta to Christianity. Most of the villagers and people think the white men are crazy for their odd beliefs but Nwoye is more taken into the new religion as they go on in there teaching. In chapter 17, The missionaries ask to own a plot of land and the clans decide that the missionaries could build a church in the Evil Forest where all the bad sins would be sure to come to get them. But after building the church they come to reason that after 28 days their punishment shall begin, but after the 28 days nothing happens and the church gains more followers and converts. When Nwoye starts going to the church sneakily one person tells Okonkwo that he is seen coming out of the church with the christians. When Nwoye gets home Okonkwo strangles him by the neck and Uchendu stops him from choking Nwoye. Okonkwo is now more disappointed than ever that he could raise a son so ungrateful. Nwoye has now taken up how to read and write in Umuofia. In chapter 18, There is segregation among the many new followers in the church of outcast and efulefu and Okonkwo demands that the christians be driven out with violence. But the rulers and elders feel it isn't necessary because the person who boasted about killing the sacred python has died from an illness proving the Mbantan belief. In chapter 19, Okonkwo's exile is most over and he host a feast for his motherland clan of Mbanta appreciating all that they have done for him even though they were un-masculine for him. He shows his worry about the new generation of christianity that doesn't abide by all the customs of his earlier times because it leaves behind tradition and family values. Chapter 20, Okonkwo is determined to build up his compound since his exile and wants to marry 2 more women and get 2 more titles for his sons. Okonkwo is no longer worried about Nwoyes' life of disappointment but now is focused on getting Ezinma married off to a Umuofian husband along with her sister. Now as Okonkwo has come back from exile he sees Umuofia has changed alot after seven years. The white men have now taken over with government and strict rules against the clan. The elders are now on the white man's side and anyone who speaks out against them will be killed. The white mans' church has consumed most Africans into conversion. Okonkwo and Oberika know that Umuofia and other villages of Africa will be affected direly.
Chapter 21-25.
The White man's influence grows stronger over Umuofia now and there is nothing to stop it. Mr. Brown, a missionary, convinces Akunna that there is only one God and that their god is just wood. They talk for awhile and see each other's perspective and Mr. Brown persuades Akunna into believing in their faith. No sooner after the understanding of faiths, Mr. Brown and the government started setting up schools and hospitals. The white men demanded that all kids go to school and the medical treatments made everyone better in the clans so it made them more attentive in lostening to the white men. Nwoye is now going to be attending teacher training school because of his knowledge to read and write. As for Okonkwo's daughters, they have suitors that are willing to marry but it isn't spiking any interest in Umuofia as Okonkwo thought it would. Chapter 22, A new leader has come in place of Mr. Brown for his outrageous policies and order of things. Reverend James smith is strict and intolerant. He wants everything done by the Bible down to the last letter. One convert wants to challenge the Egwugwu and unveal their mask but to the Umuofian people that is like killing an ancestral spirit which is a sin. The Umuofian people want to now burn the church to the ground because they need to get rid of Enorch's sin out of their village. James smith says he will stand his ground but his interpreter tells the people that he'll leave it in his own hands. By saying this the Umuofian people burn down the church anyways. In chapter 23, After burning down the church Okonkwo is seemingly happy about his clan but they have to be on guard for 2 days so they arm themselves with guns and machetes. The district commissioner returns from a tour and demands to speak with the leaders of Umuofia about the church burning as friends. As soon as the District commissioner gathers the leaders and everyone to talk they are told to drop the weapons to talk peacefully. As soon as they do, they are handcuffed and put into jail and abused for several days. Now the village must pay bail of 200 bags of cowries or the village leaders will be hanged. In chapter 24, The prisoners are released and Ezinma takes Okonkwo some food and notices whip marks on his back. Okonkwo is ready to hear the judgement amongst the 9 villages and is going to the meeting in his war/battle outfit in remembrance of his battle times and all the blood shed and honor. After the meeting of deciding whether his clan should go to war or not Okonkwo now has to put up his war outfit for they are not going into war with the white men. In chapter 25, Obierika and men are standing outside of Okonkwo's compound when the Commissioner comes and demands to speak to him but Obierika says he is not home. This makes the Comissioner threaten Obierika and as they walk in they see Okonkwo's dead body hanginig from suicide. The other men of the clan would not remove the body because it was deemed evil and the Comissioner soon realized how far African traditions ran in the Umuofia clan. He even wnated to write a paragraph about Okonkwo's stand of the injustice.
In chapter 1 the author sets the stage for the story that tells of the main character, Okonkwo's, life and gives more background on his past leading to the present. Okonkwo's father, Unkoa was a failure unlike the other fathers in the village. " He was poor and his wife and children had barely enough to eat. People laughed at him necause he was a loafer, and they swore never to lend him any more money because he never paid back." With this family background of Okonkwo's father, this puts Okonkwo's life at a rough start after his father died being heavily in debt. Okonkwo wasn't judged by his father's worth because he created a name for himself amongst the nine villages as a wealthy yam farmer and great wrestler. Okonkwo was young and ate with kings and elders as many hoped for.
Chapter 2.
The people of the Mbaino tribe have murdered a daughter or woman of the Umuosfia tribe in the market where they all gathered for the meeting to discuss the murder. In the meeting of the tribes there was a thirst for blood as anger arose from the feeling of betrayal and the verge of war between tribes. As for the crime committed by the neighboring tribe, one girl from Mbaino was given to Umuosifa and a boy named Ikemefuna was admitted to the clan that okonkwo ruled. Okonkwo took Ikemefuna in for three years until his fate would be decided. As the story continue, you learn about Okonkwo's strict, fierce rule in his house hold and his aspirations for his lazy son, Nwoye. Now Ikemefuna has to get aquainted with Umuosfia customs and Okonkwo's parenting.
Chapter 3.
This chapter tells of Okonkwo's upbringing by telling of his disadvantages to having a naive and lazy father and not inheriting posessions that every other boy in the tribe was passed down. Okonkwo's father had nothing to pass down for he was a broke flute player that never accomplished anything and was the scum of the clan. As seeing this as a child and growing up first hand to the sluggish lifestyle of a peasant, Okonkwo made it his priority to become a better man than his father, Unoka, in every way. In doing so, Okonkwo became a wealthy yam farmer and well known head clan wrestler.
Chapter 4.
As Okonkwo comes from poverty to being like a king of the clan, He knows that he must teach his son Nwoye the manly ways along with Ikemefuna. He tells them of his war stories in battle and bringing home his first head trying to spark excitement and aspiration in the two boys minds to become more like him. Ikemefuna takes in the stories like a sponge and Nwoye goes into deep thought of being more fond of his mothers' ways of compassion and peace by remembering all the stories she would tell him as a child. Nwoye now is choosing to leave that all behind as he see Ikemefuna taking in Okonkwo's stories and making him proud as he should've done. Nwoye now sees Ikemefuna s a big brother over time of working together in the yam farm and trying to excel in his father's aspirations and plans for him. As Nwoye starts having his lazy, uninspired ways changed for the better, things take unexpected turn. Okonkwo now after three years of living and bonding with Ikemefuna and seeing him as the son that he always wanted, the oracle is called on Ikemefuna's fate of death.
Chapter 5.
The yam festival is among the Umuofia people and other neighboring villages and there are games, stories, food, and wrestling. Everyone is in preparation for the big event and they can't wait to have a fun evening but Okonkwo would rather work on his yam farm. Okonkwo doesn't care for feasts or parties and always feels they are a waste of work time. After a while of doing nothing Okonkwo gets aggravated and wants to go hunting with his gun. His wife Ekwefi says something under her breathe and Okonkwo hears her and shoots the gun at her missing. The next day was the wrestling event and Ekwefi is excited because she's always loved wrestling especially because that's how Okonkwo won her heart but he couldn't pay the bride-price. Since, Okonkwo couldn't pay the price Ekwefi ran away from her last husband and went to live with Okonkwo.
Chapters 6-9.
The wrestling matches have started and the younger boys are up to wrestle before the main event which are the men from different villages. Maduka, the son of Obierika, who is Okonkwo's best friend is wrestling first up and impresses Okonkwo in his match by reminding him of himself and being strong on the take downs. Later on the priest of the village, Chielo, tells Ekwefi that Ezinma has lived through her illnesses and my be here to stay because most girls do not make it past age six. Chielo is certain by this assumption because the oracle of the hills and caves has told him so. In chapter seven, Ikemefuna has now sparked a little inspiration in Nwoye as they listened to Okonkwo's masculine stories of war and battle. Nwoye is starting to change his ways now, but just as he is getting fond of Ikemefuna word from the elders come in. Okonkwo invites the elder in but the matter was so serious he refused. The news told to Okonkwo was that the oracle had beem told of Ikemefunas' fate. He must be killed and Okonkwo should have nothing to do with it because Ikemefuna has now called him "father'. Okonkwo lies to Ikemefuna saying he will take him back to his old village so no one would be suspicious, but everyone in the compound knew what was going to occur. After Okonkwo and the other clan members killed Ikemefuna, this made the whole family frightened of Okonkwo. Even worse it made Nwoye resent him and resort back to his old ways of laziness. Meanwhile everyone was in shock, Okonkwo was internal lost at the fact that he had killed the only true son he felt could carry on his legacy with honor. Okonkwo fell into a deep depression and wouldn't eat for days. In chapter eight, Okonkwo is feeling very down that he even participated in the killing, and won't eat and can't sleep. He wishes that he had some work to take his mind off of the situation but it was the resting season between the harvest and planting of new crops. Another crisis strangely arose later on that the eldest man of a neighboring village had died and shortly after his wife died as well. Okonkwo and others ponder how close the husband and wife were and that in fact they did everything together. Shortly after that mysterious death conversation has passed, Obierika talks about bride-price with his brother in-law along with, tapping palm wine, and other work. But he tells the Okonkwo and others of a white man where you cannot see his toes but ends up talking about leprosy. In chapter 9, Ezinma is dying of an illness and Ekwefi wakes Okonkwo with the news that she has a fever and needs medicine. The relationship between Ekwefi and Ezinma is an equal one because Ezinma treats her mother as a friend and often gives her advice on what to cook because she is wiser that her age. Ezinma calls her mother by her name instead of mom because it just fits her and feels equal with her. In Ekwefi's past, she has lost many children and often predicted they would die so she would name them african names meaning "hope you stay" and "death". When Ezinma was born, she had many illnesses like most babies but survived all of them and a medicine man named Okagbue Uyanwa found her iyi-uwa, the small, pebble that linked the dead babies to the spirit world.
Chapter 10-15.
There is a dispute and egwugwu has to decided the judgement of the case by hearing both sides of the story. Egwugwu are ancestral spirits of the clan that are dressed in black robes. Okonkwo is believed to be in the group by the way one of the spirits are bounding around as he does in his wrestling matches. The first case to come forth among the Egwugwu is that a husband has had his wife taken from him by her brothers and they are holding her captive and refuse to give her back. The brothers of the wife accuse Uzowulu of mercilessly beating his wife into miscarriage once and beating her everyday. They argue that Uzowulu must agree to beg for Mgbafo back, and if she agrees, that if she were ever beaten again Uzowulu would have his genital cut off. Egwugwu rules in favor of Mgbafo and one villager complains of the verdict. In chapter 11, Ekwefi tells Ezinma of a cunning and greedy tortoise that tricks a bird into changing its name to "all of you" and lending him feathers to get up to the feast. The bird gets angry because the tortoise is eating good while the bird gets the scraps. The bird takes away its feathers and the tortoise persuades the parrot to give his wife a message to cover the ground with something soft to land on. The parrot sneakily tells tortoises' wfie to bring out hard things and when the tortoise jumped he broke his shell and a medicine man put it back together. This explained why its shell isn't smooth. Later after the story, Ezinma is called into a cave by the oracle and Ekwefi is scared but there to protect her even if it is against a God. Okonkwo arrives at the cave with a machete and frightens Ekwefi with it. Okonkwo sat with her awaiting the Oracle's outcome with Ekwefi comforting her. Ekwefi remembers when she ran away from her first husband, that when she came to Okonkwos' door and knocked, he opened up without words undressing her. Chapter 12, without saying anything chielo exits the cave with Ezinma on her back and chielo takes her back home and puts her to bed. Okonkwo not showing his true emotions for the whole situation, was drastically worried about Ezinma against the Gods. Meanwhile, Obierika's daughter is about to be married and Obierika gives a goat to his In-laws and the villagers are worried about the suitors' generosity. The suitors' family generously bring 50 pots of palm wine and everyone is happy. In chapter 13, Ogbuefi Ezeudu's death is announced by sounding of instruments and a big ceremony is put on because he has taken 3 of the 4 clan's titles as a warrior. Guns and drums are sounded in honor of his funeral but Okonkwo's gun accidentally goes off killing Ezeudu's sixteen year old son. With this crim Okonkwo and his family are forced to pack up and be exiled for seven year into another tribe. To rid themselves of Okonkwo's actions against the clan, they kill all his animals and burn his house down. Obierika asks the council why such a harsh punishment for an accident but no reply. In chapter 14, Okonkwo arrives back in his motherland village where he grew up while he is in exile. Okonkwo now lives among his uncle, Uchendu and the rest of his kingsmen who give him a new compound and yam farm to live on until their exile is up. Okonkwo now has alot of work to do with starting over with a new yam farm other than his old one he has built on for years. Okonkwo is now disappointed that he may have messed up his chance to be one of the lords of his clan by becoming exiled from the village. Meanwhile he still participates in Unchendu's sons' wedding all feelings aside. The next day Uchendu tells the family and Okonkwo of the name Nneke meaning "Mother is supreme". He tells them that a man will stay in his fatherland when things are going well but look for shelter and help when his life becomes hard and harsh. This reflects on Okonkwo's situation of him running back to his motherland where his uncle and family are located. Chapter 15, While Okonkwo was in his second year of exile Obierika went to go deliver crowies to him and news of the clan which turned out to be bad. A white man on a iron horse, a bicycle, came through during planting season.The oracle told that with one white man that there would come more to destroy Abame. So with this being said they killed the white man and disposed of the "iron horse" so no other white men could find him.About a week later the white men found the man's bike and guessed he was killed by the Abame tribe so they surrounded the market killing everyone in it.Unchendu asks obierika what did the White man say at first but they didn't understand his language. Obierika continues to come visit to bring Okonkwo his money for selling his yams to sharecroppers or people in need of yam. Obierka continues this until Okonkwo is able to return to Iguedo.
Chapters 16-20.
In this chapter (16), Obierika has come back to visit two years after his first visit and learns of Nwoye's convert ways to the white man's religion. The White men in this chapter send an interpreter to try and teach and convert the villagers of Mbanta to Christianity. Most of the villagers and people think the white men are crazy for their odd beliefs but Nwoye is more taken into the new religion as they go on in there teaching. In chapter 17, The missionaries ask to own a plot of land and the clans decide that the missionaries could build a church in the Evil Forest where all the bad sins would be sure to come to get them. But after building the church they come to reason that after 28 days their punishment shall begin, but after the 28 days nothing happens and the church gains more followers and converts. When Nwoye starts going to the church sneakily one person tells Okonkwo that he is seen coming out of the church with the christians. When Nwoye gets home Okonkwo strangles him by the neck and Uchendu stops him from choking Nwoye. Okonkwo is now more disappointed than ever that he could raise a son so ungrateful. Nwoye has now taken up how to read and write in Umuofia. In chapter 18, There is segregation among the many new followers in the church of outcast and efulefu and Okonkwo demands that the christians be driven out with violence. But the rulers and elders feel it isn't necessary because the person who boasted about killing the sacred python has died from an illness proving the Mbantan belief. In chapter 19, Okonkwo's exile is most over and he host a feast for his motherland clan of Mbanta appreciating all that they have done for him even though they were un-masculine for him. He shows his worry about the new generation of christianity that doesn't abide by all the customs of his earlier times because it leaves behind tradition and family values. Chapter 20, Okonkwo is determined to build up his compound since his exile and wants to marry 2 more women and get 2 more titles for his sons. Okonkwo is no longer worried about Nwoyes' life of disappointment but now is focused on getting Ezinma married off to a Umuofian husband along with her sister. Now as Okonkwo has come back from exile he sees Umuofia has changed alot after seven years. The white men have now taken over with government and strict rules against the clan. The elders are now on the white man's side and anyone who speaks out against them will be killed. The white mans' church has consumed most Africans into conversion. Okonkwo and Oberika know that Umuofia and other villages of Africa will be affected direly.
Chapter 21-25.
The White man's influence grows stronger over Umuofia now and there is nothing to stop it. Mr. Brown, a missionary, convinces Akunna that there is only one God and that their god is just wood. They talk for awhile and see each other's perspective and Mr. Brown persuades Akunna into believing in their faith. No sooner after the understanding of faiths, Mr. Brown and the government started setting up schools and hospitals. The white men demanded that all kids go to school and the medical treatments made everyone better in the clans so it made them more attentive in lostening to the white men. Nwoye is now going to be attending teacher training school because of his knowledge to read and write. As for Okonkwo's daughters, they have suitors that are willing to marry but it isn't spiking any interest in Umuofia as Okonkwo thought it would. Chapter 22, A new leader has come in place of Mr. Brown for his outrageous policies and order of things. Reverend James smith is strict and intolerant. He wants everything done by the Bible down to the last letter. One convert wants to challenge the Egwugwu and unveal their mask but to the Umuofian people that is like killing an ancestral spirit which is a sin. The Umuofian people want to now burn the church to the ground because they need to get rid of Enorch's sin out of their village. James smith says he will stand his ground but his interpreter tells the people that he'll leave it in his own hands. By saying this the Umuofian people burn down the church anyways. In chapter 23, After burning down the church Okonkwo is seemingly happy about his clan but they have to be on guard for 2 days so they arm themselves with guns and machetes. The district commissioner returns from a tour and demands to speak with the leaders of Umuofia about the church burning as friends. As soon as the District commissioner gathers the leaders and everyone to talk they are told to drop the weapons to talk peacefully. As soon as they do, they are handcuffed and put into jail and abused for several days. Now the village must pay bail of 200 bags of cowries or the village leaders will be hanged. In chapter 24, The prisoners are released and Ezinma takes Okonkwo some food and notices whip marks on his back. Okonkwo is ready to hear the judgement amongst the 9 villages and is going to the meeting in his war/battle outfit in remembrance of his battle times and all the blood shed and honor. After the meeting of deciding whether his clan should go to war or not Okonkwo now has to put up his war outfit for they are not going into war with the white men. In chapter 25, Obierika and men are standing outside of Okonkwo's compound when the Commissioner comes and demands to speak to him but Obierika says he is not home. This makes the Comissioner threaten Obierika and as they walk in they see Okonkwo's dead body hanginig from suicide. The other men of the clan would not remove the body because it was deemed evil and the Comissioner soon realized how far African traditions ran in the Umuofia clan. He even wnated to write a paragraph about Okonkwo's stand of the injustice.