This story it’s
about the Ibo tribe, there costumes and culture. There are 9 villages but were
the most important events takes place it’s in Umuofia. Okonkwo the main
character it’s a very known person in all the villages because he is an
excellent wrestler and very wealthy man. Okonkwo´s past has change the way he
acts in every way. He is a very aggressive man, he does not express himself
emotionally and it’s a very impulsive person.
One day one
of de nine villages killed a woman of Okonkwo´s tribe. The whole village didn’t
want war, so they made an exchange the killed woman for a boy and another
woman. The kid´s name was Ikemefuna; he stayed with Okonkwo and start living
with him as a son.
After some
time the week of peace came by, this it’s a tradition of this tribe. This week it’s
very important because is to praise the earth goodness so they would have very
good crops this year. Okonkwo as a very capricious man broke the law, that you can’t
bit someone at the peace week no matter what. Because of this incident there
were consequences, he´s village punish him but not that hard because he was
very importunate and well known.
The Feats of
New Yam came along. This very special date for them, because they don’t work on
the week and they stay together to eat yams. In this week are a lot of events
one of them is wrestling. All nine villages are involved and each one of them
have a representative boy so they can fight.
-Elsie Rangel
