THINGS FALL APART

Okonkwo feels guilty about killing Ikemefuna and he doesn’t eat anything for 2-days and just drinks palm-wine.

Nwoye is now scared of his dad and tries to avoid to him

When Okonkwo ask Ekwefi to makes him a dish, she does it in his favourite way and Enzinma, his favourite daughter, brings him the food. Enzima insist him to eat the entire food since he hasn’t had food for two whole days.

While he eats, he keep wishing to himself that Enzinma had been born a boy because, “she has the right spirit”.

Okonkwo desperately wants some work to distract himself with, but he’s out of luck because it’s the down season for farmers – the time between the harvest and planting.

Okonkwo is hard for himself, mentally calling himsel a “woman” for killing Ikemefuna.

To make himself feel better, he visits his friend, Obeirika. Obierika is happy to see his friend because he wants Okonkwo to help him negotiate a bride-price with his daughter’s suiter.

Okonkwo greets Obierika’s son, Maduka and he admits that he’s worried about Nwoye. He also reiterates his wish that Enzinma were a boy.

Okonkwo added some more about Nwoye being soft, and in order to keep his mind offthe similarity between his lazy father and Nwoye.

Okonkwo calls Obierika out for not coming with them to kill Ikemefuna. Obierika says he had better things to do.

Obierika’s sharp defense is interupted by a man named Ofoedu, who clearly has some news that he’s dying to share.

Ofoedu tells the men a strange story about an old man and wife from the neighbouring village of Ire. The old man has just recently been found dead in his bed and when his first wife discovering this, she prayed for him. Hours later, the youngest wife went into the bedroom and found the first wife dead beside his husband.

Obierika comments on tne close bond between two, but Okonkwo sees their relationship as the weakness on the man’s part.

Okonkwo says he’s going to leave to tap his palm trees; he wants some work to busy his mind and keep from thinking about Ikemefuna.

Later, when Okonkwo returns to Obierika ‘s hut, a sailor and his family are there to ask for Obierika’s daughter’s (Akueke’s)nhand in marriage.

Discussion among the men turns to Obierika’s son Maduka. Everyone admires the young man.

Akueke. Obierika’s daughter, enters with refreshment and shakes hands with her suiter and would-be-in-laws.

Akueke is just sixteen and considered both beautifull aand fashionable.

After the drinking, they negotiate her bride price by passing bact and forth changing numbers of sticks, which represent bag of cowries (shell which serve as a form of monetary exchange)

The two families finally decide on twenty bags of cowries.

Next, the men criticize the bride-pricing customs of other tribes – implying other tribes are inferior because they haggle over the tribes as if they were livestock or let the woman of the family determine the price.

The scene ends with Obierika talking about white men, who apparently are colorless as chalk and have no toes.

One of the men makes a joke, saying that he’s seen a white man tons of times, his name is Amadi. So the joke is that Amadi isn’t white, he just has leprosy and euphemism for leprosy is “the white skin”

1. Okonkwo Depressed

2. Obierika Okonkwo’s friend Respected man in Umuofia Tend to fill the role of advice-giver to Okonkwo Thinking man

3. Ekwefi Okonkwo’s second wife Know how to roast plantains

4. Ofoedu A villager who comes with massage about

Ogbuefi Ndulue polite

5. Obbuefi Ndulue The oldest man in Ire

6. Ozoemena Ogbuefi first wife Walk with a stick Died after her husband death

7. Akueke Obierika’s daughter Very shy About sixteen Just ripe for marriage

8. Obidrika A brother of Obierika

9. Machi The eldest brother of Obierika

10. Dimaragana A man who would lend his knifefor cutting up

a dog11. Umezulika

A man who taps Okonkwo’s palm trees12. Ibe

A young siutor for Akueke13. Ukegbe

The father of Ibe14. Amadi

A leeper who often passes by Obierika’s…..15. Maduka

Obierika’s son Sixteen years old Good in wrestilng