Things Fall Apart Chapters 7-13

Ikemefuma has been for 3 years now with Oknokwo, and he has become one more member of the family. Nwoye and Ikemefuma are really good friends and Ikemefuma has influenced in Nwoye's behavior. The locusts have arrived to the village and they arrive every once in a while so they are surprised. They collect them and cook them. Ogbuefi Ezedu came to Oknokwo's obi and told him that The Oracle says that Ikemefuma must me killed. Oknokwo says Ikemefuma that he must return to his home village so they went to the forest and a man attacked him with a machete, Okonknwo didn't want to look weak so he cut him down. Nwoye was broken when he received the notice. 

Oknonkwo is in depression, he reminds Ikemefuma all the time. Oknokwo feels like he is behaving like a woman so he decides to go on with his life to distract from Ikemefuma's death. Okonwo visits Oberika who doesn't agree with Okonkwo in taking part in the murder of Ikemefuma. 

Okonkwo stays with Oberika to discuss his daughter bride-price and then discuss about neighbor villages traditions. 

Ekwefi was really scared because Enzima was really sick. Ekwefi really loved Enzima and they share a relationship of equals. Ekwefi lost 9 children after having Enzima, they thought she had a ogbanje which is a kid that dies and borns again so they killed the last children and burried it and Enzima didn’t die but every time Enzima is sick Ekwefi is really scared.

The village has a gathering where woman can’t enter. The egwugwu are clan’s ancestral spirits with masks. They have a case of a problem between a husband and a wife.

Ekwedi tells Ezinma a story about why the Tortoise’s shell is not smooth. Chielo, which is the priestess, informs that the Oracle wants to see Ezinma. Ekwefi is scared that Enzima goes alone so Oknokwo and she follow her. Okonkwo calms Ekwefi and they both remind of when she ran away from her husband to marry Okonkwo.

Chielo brings Enzima to Ekwefi’s hut. Oknokwo’s family helps prepare Oberika’s daughter engagement ceremony. The feast was a total success.

Ogbuefi Ezedu is death and his death is announced in the village with drums. Okonkwo remembers that the last time he saw Egbuefi was when he announced that Ikemefuma must die.

In the funeral, Okonkwo accidentally kills Ogbuefi Ezedu’s son so he must take his most valuable pertinences and leave with his family for 7 years. 

Achebe, C. (1994) Things Fall Apart . New York: Anchor Books , p.52-125.

Things Fall Apart. Chapter 1-6

Okonkwo is a strong, wealthy and an influential clan leader of Umuofia. He was 18 when he beat Amalinze The Cat in a wrestling match. It has been 20 years and Oknonkwo has brought honor to the village, he didn't inherit anything. At first, Nwakkibie gave him some seeds, there were very bad harvest times but he survived and made everything by his own. 

. Unoka, Okonkwo's father, was a poor man that died in debt after The Oracle told him to work. His son is ashamed of him and he is afraid to be like him.

Okonkwo was about to sleep when he received the announcement that every man in Umofobia had to go to the market place tomorrow. The next day Ogbuefi Ezeugo, the oldest man in the village), said that their neighbors killed a member of their village. The Umuofia clan wanted their neighbors to give them a virgin girl and a 14 year old children. The girl stayed with the old man while the boy named Ikemefuma, stayed in Oknonkwo's place. 

Okonkwo has no patience with unsuccessful people and he loses his temper really easy. One day he beat his wife Oijugo on the Week of Peace and he was punished by bringing some things for the goddess. He also beat and nearly killed Ewefi, her second wife, in the New Yam festival which Okonkwo didn't like, but he and Ewefi enjoyed wrestling tho because they met there and they went to the match were Okafo won.  They have a children called Nwoye after 9 sons died.