Part II Things Fall Apart

Okonkwo was exiled from Umuofia and in 7 years he can’t come back to the land. He and his family went to Mbanta, Okonkwo´s motherland and they were well received. Uchendu is Okonkwos uncle; he is the oldest and wisest man in Mbanta. Unchendu´s sons, the cousin of Okonkwo gave to him seed-yams so he and his family start again their life. One day Unchendu talked to all the young people about Nneka and how important the woman and mothers are in this clan. After a while Obierika, the best friend of Okonkwo came to Mbanta to visit him. He stayed to meet Uchendu. Obierika told them what happened with Abame people that they disappeared because of the white men. What happened to them was that one white man came to the tribe of Abame and the Oracle said to them that the white men will bring destruction in them so they killed the white man; time later 3 white men came and kill the abame people. So Uchendu told them a story so they can understand the message "Never kill a man who says nothing".

Two years later Obierika came back with Okonkwo to give him some money he had in Umuofia, they started to talk and Obierika told him about Nwoye, and that the missionaries have arrived to Umuofia and that they will to Mbanta. In Mbanta people did not care much about the white men but one of the ones that did and also believe in them was Nwoye. The missionaries asked for land so they can build a church, and they give them some land in the Evil forest, and the Mbanta people thought that they will go to die there, but they didn’t. The missionaries did build the church and start making them to believe in their religion. The people of Mbnata started to become Christian and believed in Jesus Crist. After a time a outcast killed a python that was the sacred animal, and the punishment for this was to make a sacrifices in a ceremony but this time was an exception. Okonkwo and other men in the clan wanted to punish the man that did it but because they were very peaceful they thought that it was a better idea to stop talking and take away all their privileges to the women and men that became Christians.

Mother Kite and Daughter Kite Chp 15 Things Fall apart

In chapter 15 we learn more about Uchendu´s personality, as and elder we can see his perspective toward life and his great wisdom. After Obierika informs them about Abame`s tragedy by the white missionaries it’s Obierika start telling them a story about a Mother kite and its daughter kite. The Mother sends its daughter to hunt food and first it brings a duckling, the mother asks her daughter, how the mother of the duckling react when she took the little duckling and she said that mother duckling didn’t do or say something, so Mother Kite said to her daughter to return the duckling because “There is something ominous behind the silence” she said. After this the daughter returns the duckling, it took a chick instead, when she came back with her mother she asked the same question and the daughter replied “It cried and raved and cursed me”, so Mother kite said “There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts”.  

In my opinion this is a message we all need to remember and know for life, sometimes everything it’s not what it seems and we need to be intelligent to see and observe how others react to the circumstances and base us in them. People react depending in what they live, if they are scared the are impulsive put if they are angry they are more vindictive. 

Things Fall Apart Chapter 7-13

Ikemefuna, the son Okonkwo always wanted, the boy that helped him with everything, was killed by the men of Umuofia and also and most painfully by Okonkwo because it was time to sacrifice him. After this Okonkwo was very sad and missed very much Ikemefuna, but because of his reputation of strong and very tough he showed the opposite to everyone, except with his friend Obierika, he got of his chest with him and told him everything about how he was feeling and Obierika said to Okonkwo that it wasn´t good to be involved in Ikemefuna´s sacrifice. After this Obierika asked Okonkwo to be the bride price business of his daughter wedding and he said yes of course. Ezinmna the daughter of Ekwefi and Okonkwo was sick of fever, and everyone was afraid that she died like all the other nine babies of Ekwefi. The community justice was based on the spirits and the judgment they did about everything, they see the problems and make the solutions. Time after, Ezeudu died, a great man and very respected by everyone on the village and because of this he had to have a big funeral, this means that they killed animals in his memory and men took guns and shoot to the sky. Okonkwo was one of the men that shoot at the sky but by mistake he shoots the son of Ezeudu, which was the biggest mistake of all. The people of Umuofia starts burning his farm, all his crops and he and his family were expelled from Umuofia for seven years, they went to Okonkwos motherland, Mbanta. Things fall apart for he and his family, and because of this they have to start from cero there life.