A Summary Of Okonkwo's Things Fall Apart

o Chapter 1- Okonkwo, 18 years old, first becomes famous at a wrestling match. From then on his fame grows. Okonkwo is unlike his father, Unoka, who is very lazy and “a failure”. Unoka couldn’t afford to feed his family or pay anyone back so he was always in debt and always piling on more and more. He ended up dying in debt. Okonkwo ends up with an ill-fated kid whose name was Ikemefuna. o Chapter 2- Normally on a moonlit night there are children playing and others walking around, but this particular night was quiet. The people in the nine villages fear the night any other time. That night a “daughter of Umuofia” was killed in a neighboring clan and Okonkwo wanted revenge. No one else agreed with him, instead they gave him Ikemefuna. Okonkwo

a barn or title). His father later went to consult Agbala about his bad harvest, but finds out that he can only blame himself for this. He later develops a disease that makes his stomach swell which he later dies from. Okonkwo wanted a better life for himself and went to a wealthy man named Nwakibie. Nwakibie gives Okonkwo a generous amount of seeds because he is a hard worker. With those seeds he had to support his family instead of his future. The rest of the year ends up being terrible (heavy rain, trees uprooted, no sunlight, yams didn’t turn out). o Chapter 4- Okonkwo quickly went from being in poverty to one of the lords of the clan. Okonkwo soon becomes attached to Ikemefuna, but doesn’t openly share his feelings. Ikemefuna arrives during the Week of Peace. Okonkwo broke the peace by beating his third wife for not making him his afternoon meal. He was then punished by Ezeani, the priest of the Earth goddess. o Chapter 5- It is days before the Yam feast, but Okonkwo can only focus on work. Ekwefi is Okonkwo’s second wife who had a daughter named Ezinma. At first Ekwefi wouldn’t marry him because he was too poor and couldn’t afford her bridal-price. Ezinma and her mother treat each other as equals and both call each other by their first names. Okonkwo loves his daughter dearly, but doesn’t show

Later that morning he finds out that his daughter, Ezinma, is dying. Since Ezinma is his favorite child he immediately got out of bed and rushed to her. Okonkwo went to the medicine man and was told that the child was ogbanje. This when the child dies just to re-enter the mother’s womb to be reborn again. To prevent this they mutilated the infants’ dead body to scare it and make it not want to re-enter the womb. To try to save his daughter, he had a steaming pot over her. He had it there for a while and then sat her up on a