ThingsFallApart

Things Fall Apart By: Chinua Achebe

Chapter: 1 We learn that Okonkwo is a great wrestler. He beat Amalinze the Cat who was unbeaten for seven years. Unoka is his dad and he is lazy and he owes people a lot of money. Okonkwo has three wives and ten children.

Chapter: 2 Okonkwo was about to go to sleep when he heard the ogene of the town. It was a message to tell all the men of Umuofia was asked to gather at the market place tomorrow morning. When they met in the morning they were told Ogbuefi Udo's wife was killed at the market in Mbaino. An ultimatum was immediately dispatched to Mbaino asking them to chose between war on the one hand and on the other the offer of a young man and a virgin as compensation.

Chapter:3 Okonkwo didn't have the start in life which many young men usually had. He didn't inherit a barn from his dad because there was no barn to inherit. His father Unoka had gone to the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves to find out why he always had a miserable harvest. It told him because he is lazy. Okonkwo went to visit a wealthy man in his village who had three huge barns nine wives and thirty children. He asked him for yam seeds which he agreed to give him but in return he got to give him some yams in return.

Chapter 4 Ikemefuna is starting to fit in with Okonkwo's family. Okonkwo beat his wife during the week of peace and had to pay a fine. Okonkwo's enemies criticize him because they say he had no respect to the gods of the clan.

Chapter 5 It starts with the Feast of the New Yams. It gave thanks to Ani the earth goddess. We learn that the villagers do not answer yes when called because they fear it might be a evil spirit. Okonkwo shoots at his second wife.

They go to the wrestling matches. The people love these matches because they are exciting and they are always looking forward to whats going to happen next. We learn that Okonkwo's daughter has been sick a lot but his second wife believes she is going to live.

Chapter 7 Ikemefuna is like an older brother to Nwoye now. Okonkwo tells Nwoye and Ikemefuna stories about his past but he likes his mothers stories better. Locusts come to the town of Umofia they use the locusts for food and other things. Ogbuefi tells Okonkwo Ikemefuna is going to be killed.

Chapter 8 He is depressed about the death of Ikemefuna. Okonkwo couldn't sleep or eat for days. Obierika feels Okonkwo's part in his death is wrong and he said it will not make the earth god happy.

Chapter 9 We learn Ezinma is Ekwefi's only child because all of the others died. Ezinma calls her parents their first name because she shows she is an adult. Ezinma keeps a stone and villagers believes it keeps the bad away.

Chapter 10 The women are treated like they are outsiders. We learn the egwugwu are ancestrial spirits that the Igo tribe believes in. They represent the nine villages.

Chapter 11 They start out by telling stories. A story about a tortoise is told by Nwoye's mother. Then priestess Chielo takes Ezinma to Agbala's cave. Ekwefi follows because she wants to see what is going to happen to her only child.

Chapter 12 Ezinma is taken back to her family by the president. When Okonkwo tried to protect Ezinma his character shows he is changing. Okonkwo talks to Obierika which is his friend.

Chapter 13 Villagers become nervous when they hear the message of the ekwe because their scared their going to loose their homes. Okonkwo must leave his clan so that danger doesn't put the rest of the people in risk of danger. Okonkwo now has to move.

Chapter 14 Okonkwo goes to Mbanta because he was exiled. Uchendu encourages Okonkwos to combat despair by telling he did not hang himself when something bad happened to him.

Chapter 15 Obierika brings news that the Abame clan was wiped out. Obierika sells Okonkwo's farm and his yams and brings him his profit.

Chapter 16 Obierika brings more news to Okonkwo that the missionaries had come to Umuofia. It caused a considerable stir in the village of Mbanta. When Obierika brings up the topic Okonkwo doesn't want to talk about it. Nwoye is attracted to the missionaries because of poems.

Chapter 17 The elders of Mbanta give the missionaries land in the Evil Forest to build a church. When the church is built in the Evil Forest people started to convort. Okonkwo flips out on Nwoye over this conversation they have. We learn that the villagers call Okonkwo the "Roaring Flame" because of his power and fury.

Chapter 18 We learn that the efulefu are titless men. The osu are the outcasts of the town and are treated very poorly. The clan does not bring injury to Okali. Chapter 19 Okonkwo sent money to Obierika to build him two hunts in his old compound where he and his family will live. He is returning from his exile. Christians have come to Mbanta because of the church that was built. Chapter 20 Okonkwo has rejoined the clan and he feels like he is at the bottom with no power. Ezinma has changed into a beautiful young girl. Okonkwo plans to rebuild his prestige when he returns by letting a man of the clan marry one of his beautiful daughters. There are many changes in Umuofia like the white man is in charge.

Chapter 21 The white man has built a trading store now palm wine and other things are starting to have value and money is flowing into Umuofia. Okonkwo thinks things are going to be the same when he returns from his exile. Okonkwo is wrong the white man has changed everything in the town.

Chapter 22 We learn Mr. Brown's successor was the Reverend James Smith. Enoch commits an offense against the Ibo religious customs. The eqwugwu respond to the crime by going to the marketplace the next day with machetes and attack each other.

Chapter 23 In the beginning of the chapter Okonkwo is happy Umuofia is returning to the way it was before his exile.The District Commissioner asked the leaders of Umuofia to meet with him. He tricks them and he arrests them. They are put in jail and if they want to get out they have to pay a fine of two hundred and fifty cowries.

Chapter 24 When the leaders of Umuofia return the townspeople are scared to say hello to them. Okonkwo sees the white man as the biggest threat to Umuofia. They hold a meeting about him in the morning. Okika proposes that they should kill the white man. The white man rides up to their meeting and Okonkwo confronts him. Then Okonkwo cuts his head off with a machete and the white man has died.

Chapter 25 Okonkwo has killed himself by hanging himself. The District Commissioner has come to speak to Okonkwo. Obierika has lead them to the place where Okonkwo is dangling and asked them to remove his body because it is against their clan to touch him because it is against their clan to kill yourself.