SUMMARYCHAPTERS 7 - 13

Ikemefuna lived with Okwonkwo´s family for 3 years, until Okwonkwo kill him. He help Nwoye to be responsible and more masculine, he was like a guide to him. The time came when Gods told Okwonko that it was time to kill Him. After that, Okwonkwo said to Ikemefuna that he needed to return back to his village. When they were on their way, a man came out and hit him with a machete; Ikemefuna was in such a deep pain and Okwonko started feeling pity for him. As Okwonko didn’t want anyone to realize that he had feelings for Ikemefuna, he finally killed him himself.

After killing Ikemefuna, Okwonkwo fell in a deep depression. He went to visit Obierika, she was looking for her future son-in-law. Okwonkwo started feeling better day by day.

Days pass Enzima started feeling very sick, she´s Ekwefi´s only child. A medicine man told them that an “ogbanje” which is like a wicked child, was the cause of her illness.  Days later the village holded the “egwugwu”; this ceremony consist, the men got masked and they emerged from a secret house where women are not allowed and it´s an spiritual ceremony were ancestral spirits came.

Meanwhile Enzima´s mother, Ekwefi started to tell her daughter a story about a tortoise and other birds.  Chielo came to inform Ekwefi and Okwonkwo that the God of the hills and caves Oracle wanted to see Enzima. The mother followed Chielo to the cave with the intention to save her daughter even against the Gods. Okwonkwo arrived with a machete and calmed her.

At dawn, Chielo took Enzima back from the cave. Okwonkwo was really worried. It was time for Okwonkwo´s family to prepare Obierika´s daughter´s Uri the Betrothat Ceremony in which all the village will help with food and the mother got a coat. But there was an interruption when a woman was running after a cow.

Finally, the dead of the elder Ezeudu was announced with a musical instrument called “ekwe”, this for the other villages to know it. At the ceremony which is a big funeral men usually beat drums and fire their guns. Okwonkwo accidentally killed one of Ezudu´s  childen with his gun. As this is a crime, Okwonkwo was exhilated with all his family and they went to Mbanta.

 

 

OKWONKWO SUMMARY

Okonkwo lives in the town of Umofia, sharing his life with three wives and eight kids. Since he was a kid he has made strong efforts to has a succsesful future.

A very bad news came to the village, a woman who married with Ogbuefi Udo, went to buy some things to Mbaino and had been killed. In exchange they sent a virgin woman and a lad of fifteen because they didn't wanted war. The boy was named Ikemefuna and stayed in Okonkwos house in company of his wives and other kids.

Okonkwo is a very cold man who related weakness with woman. He now lived with three in his house, since he had always been working hard. He gained his first yams with the help of a man called Nwakibi who knew that he wouldn't betray him. He beated his son hard when he didn't want to make things in the correct way.

Woman had to do everything Okonkwo wanted. One day he arrived to his obi and his wife Ojiugo wasn't there, although his other wives tried to help her, he was so angry that he hit his woman heavily, without caring that they were in The Week of Peace to show honor to the great godess, ani. In another ocassion he shot her wife because she had cut some leaves from a banana tree, luckily he failed and didn't kill her.

Umofia was celebrating New Yam, to thank the goddess for all the things she had done. The wrestling competition took place in the second day of the celebration. The whole town went to see the big game. Ekwefi, one of the wives of Okonkwo, loved wrestling so she attended the event happily. There she had the opportunity to talk with Chielo a woman who appreciated Ekwefi's daughter Ezinma.

Okonkwo started to feel angry in the conpetition because a young man was about to win the battle and he remember himself in the old times.