Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Part 3:Chapter 23-25


Part 3: Chapter 23-25
            Chapter 23: The District Commissioner had send their messengers to invite the leaders of Umuofia to meet him in his headquarters. The six leaders of Umuofia was hand cuffed and led into the guardroom. Everything had happened so quickly that the six men did not see it coming. They have bought the six men here because they joined together to molest others, to burn people's houses, and their place of worship. As soon as the six men were locked up, the court messengers went into Umuofia to tell the people that their leaders would not be released unless they paid a fine of two hundred and fifty bags of cowries.
            Chapter 24: Okonkwo and his fellow prisoners were set free as the fine was paid. There was another meeting that was going to be held in the morning by the villagers. As the meeting went on the five court messengers had approach and everyone attention was towards them.  They had order that the meeting should stop. In a flash Okonkwo drew his machete. The messenger crouched to avoid the blow. It was useless. Okonkwo's machete descended twice and the man's head lay beside his uniformed body.
            Chapter 25: The District Commissioner arrived at Okonkwo's compound looking for him at the head of an armed band of soldiers and court messengers he found a small crowd of men sitting wearily in the obi. The commissioner had demanded that they tell where Okonkwo was or they'll lock them up. Obierika spoke with these words " We can take you where he is, and perhaps your men will help us." The commissioner did not know what he meant by "Perhaps your men will help us." They came to a tree where Okonkwo was there left hanging. They had ask them can they take him down because it was against their custom to.

Part 3:Chapter 20-22


Part 3: Chapter 20-22
            Chapter 20: As soon as Okonkwo had left the clan someone else had replaced him by taking over his spot. Okonkwo had lost his place among the nine masked spirits who administered justice. In the clan he lost the chance to lead warlike clan against the new religion, and lost the years in which he might have taken the highest titles in the  clan. Ezinma grew up as one of the most beautiful girls in Mbanta. Many young men and prosperous middle-aged men of Mbanta came to marry her. She had refused every last one of them, because her father choose that she should marry in Umuofia. Umuofia had changed a lot when Okonkwo was in exile. The church had taken come and led many astray. Ogbuefi Ugonna had taken two titles but he left all that behind just to join the Christians.
            Chapter 21: One of the great man, Akunna, had given his sons to be taught the white man's knowledge in Mr. Brown 's school. Whenever Mr. Brown went to that village he spent long hours with Akunna in his obi talking through an interpreter about religion. Mr. Brown built a school and a little hospital in Umuofia because he came to the conclusion that a frontal attack on it would not succeed. He went from family begging people to send their children to his school. What had really convince them to come was the speaking Mr. Brown told them. He had told them that " the leaders of the land in the future would be men and woman who had learned to read and write. If the people in strangers would come from other places to rule them."
            Chapter 22: Enoch had tore off one of the spirits mask. The other egwugwu had to immediately surround around him to shield him from the profane gaze of women and children while leading him away. Enoch had killed an ancestral spirit by his actions and because of that Umuofia was thrown in confusion. 

Part 2:Chapter 18-19


Part 2: Chapter 18-19
            Chapter 18: The young church in Mbanta had a very few crises early in life. At first it all started with the clan thought that the church wasn't going to survive because the building was located or built on the land of Evil Forest. The clan had started to worry but not so much. In order to be part of the church you must shave off the mark of your heathen belief.
            Chapter 19: As soon as Okonkwo entered his last year in exile he had sent money to Obierika to build him two huts in his old compound. He could not ask another man to build his own obi for him, nor the walls of his compound. These was the things man had to build for themselves or inherited from his father. Okonkwo had plan to throw a feast before he left to go back to his homeland, Umuofia. During the feast Uchendu was honored for being the oldest man and had prayed for health and the children. 

Part 2:Chapter 16-17


Chapter 16-17
            Chapter 16: When nearly two years past by Obierika paid another visit back to his friend. The missionaries had come to Umuofia and mark their landing of where the church was going to be built at. What had moved Obierika to visit Okonkwo was the sudden appearance of the latter's son, Nwoye, among the missionaries in Umuofia. Later on, there was the arrival of the missionaries in the village of Mbanta. They had came to tell about their belief.
            Chapter 17: The rulers of Mbanta had gave the missionaries the land to build their shrine. The land they have given up was the land of the Evil Forest. The missionaries had accepted the land which no one in his right senses would accept. Nwoye had been attracted to the new faith from the very first day, but he had kept that a secret. The villagers were so certain about the doom that awaited these man that one or two converts thought it wise to suspend their allegiance to the new faith.  

Part 2:Chapter 14-15


Part 2: Chapter 14-15
            Chapter 14: Okonkwo was well accepted by his mother's kinsmen in Mbanta. His uncle was the one who received him. He was now known as the eldest surviving member of that family. His uncle name was Uchendu. He was the one who had received Okonkwo's mother twenty and ten years she had been bought home from Umuofia to be buried with her people. When the woman dies she is taken home to be buried with her own kinsmen because when a father beats his child, it seeks sympathy in its mother's hut. A man belongs to his fatherland when things are good and life is sweet. When there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland.
            Chapter 15: Okonkwo best friend came to visit him on his second year of exile. He has brought with him two young man. Obierika soon told Okonkwo and Uchendu about how Abame has been wiped out. 

Part 1:Chapter 12-13


Part 1: Chapter 12-13
            Chapter 12: Obierika was celebrating his daughter's uri. It was the day on which her suitor would bring palm-wine not only to her parents and immediate relatives but to the wide and extensive group of kinsman called Umunna. Obierika's compound was as busy as an anthill. All this anthill activity was going smoothly when a sudden interruption came. There was a cry on the distance.
            Chapter 13: The cannon had sound the alarm in the middle of the night. This had represent that someone had died. It was someone from Okonkwo's village. It was Ezeudu who had died. As guns fired the last salute and cannon rent the sky. All of a sudden there was a cry of agony and shouts of horror. It was Ezeudu son that Okonkwo had killed. His gun had exploded and a piece of iron had pierced the boy's heart. Okonkwo was now force to flee from the clan. It was a crime against the earth goddess to kill a clansman, and a man who committed it must flee from the land. 

Part 1:Chapter 10-11


Part 1: Chapter 10-11
            Chapter 10: Most communal ceremonies took place at the time of the day. The ceremony would begin after the midday. Everyone there had understood the way the crowd stood or sat that the ceremony was for men. Each of the nine egwugwa  had represented village of the clan. Their leader was called the Evil Forest. The nine villages of Umuofia had grown out of the nine sons of the first father of the clan. Evil Forest represented  the village of Umueru, or the children of Eru, who was the oldest of the nine sons. Uzowulu had presented his case of how his three in laws came into his house beat him up and took his wife from him, but he had own them nothing. Odukwe then pleaded his case. Soon enough Odukwe was told to let his sister go back to him if Uzowulu brings wine.
            Chapter 11: Ezinma and Ekwefi sat on the floor and told stories to one another. When Ezinma started her story telling they heard a loud and high pitched voice that broke the outer silence of the night. It was the priestess and she was saying again and again that Agbala wanted to see Ezinma. She took Ezinma to another village then to the cave, while Ekwefi was creeping behind then during their whole journey.