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=Things Fall Apart=

Day 1:

Progress: Finished chapter 1

Summary: Okwonkwo is a famous wrestler and is very sucessful. He defeated "The Cat." He is ashamed of his fathers failure, Unoka. There are many cultural riturals.

Predictions: Okonkwo will make some important impacts on the people around him and do something big.

Day 2:

Progress: Finished chapter 2 and 3

Summary: Chapter 2 Mbaino killed a female member of the Umuofian tribe, so Umuofia gave them the choice to go to war or hand over a virgin and a young man. They chose the second option, and a young man went to live with Okwonkwo.

Predictions: Something bad might happen to Okwonkwo.

Summary: Chapter 3 This chapter describes how Okwonkwo had a very hard time in his first year of sharecropping and had to support his mother, father, and sisters.

Predictions: Okwonko's success came with the death of his father.

Day 3:

Progress finished chapter 4 and 5

Summary: Chapter 4 It was the week of peace and Okonkwo beat his wife. He got in trouble and had to make sacrifices to the goddess ani. Ikemefuna came close to Okonkwo and son. The planting season started. It was rainy for a long time. Okonkwo is a perfectionist in planting yams, the manly crop.

Predictions: Something bad is going to happen to Okonkwo due to the week of peace mishappening.

Summary Chapter 5 Yam festival was occuring. They were also getting ready for wrestling. Okonkwo was receiving meals from his wives. The youngest daughter dropped her pot while she was dancing.

Predictions: The woman are going to take over and turn on Okonkwo.

DAY 4: Progress: chapter 6 and 7

Summary: Chapter 6 Wrestling is a big event for the village and everyone came. Maduka and obierika set the scene with the first match and the drummers stopped. Ekwefi and Chielo talked about Okonkwo shooting at Ekwefi. The wrestling went on and Okafo and Ikezue wrestled and Okafo won and the people were cheering and said, "Then send him word to fight for us."

Predictions: Okafo is going to become like Okonkwo. Okonkwo is going to want Nwoye to wrestle.

Summary: Chapter 7 Ikemefuna is finally like everyone else in the group. Okonkwo is happy Nwoye is becoming more masculine. Okonkwo forces his son's into masculinity. The Locusts come and reward the villagers. The villages believe are forshadowing something good to come. Ekwefi came to Okonkwo and said Ikemefuna is to be killed. Okonkwo walks with Ikemefuna to make him feel comforted. Inkemefuna never trusted Okonkwo. Told Okonkwo to stay out of the situation. THey kill Okonkwo. Okonkwo goes back and sees nwoye and Nwoye remembers his past. Predictions: Okonkwo and Nwoye will fight.

Day 5: Progress: chapter 8 and 9

Summary chapter 8: Okonkwo is depressed and goes to visit Obierka. Obierka asks okonkwo to stay to meet with inlaws. Okonkwo feels a little better by talking. Okonkwo says his children do not resemble himself at all and thinks his daughter would make a better son. A marriage happens and the bride-price is explained. The leper is made fun of "the whites." There are different ways the tribes work.

prediciton: Okonkwos family is going to fall apart.

Summary Chapter 9 Ekweifi runs to get Okonkwo, because Ezinma is sick, She has a fever. Okonkwo goes to get herbs and then they talk about Ekweifi and how she had an Ogbanje. This Ogbanje kept taking her children until the 10th child. When she was 9 they went to find iyi-uwa. They dug for a long time and finally found the rock. Ezinma wasnt sick for a year. Then finally she caught this fever. They covered her with a blanket and covered the pot to break the fever. She then fell asleep.

Predictions: Enzimna will be in the same posistion as ikemefuna. Okonkwo will get involved again.

Day 6 Progress: Chapter 10 and 11 and 12

Summary Chapter 10 One village gathers around the ilo to listen to the Egwugwu and Black Forest. Okonkwo is a Egwugwu. Uzowulu wants his wife or the bride price back but her family claims that he beat her and so do his neighbors. This is a great case.

Prediction: Okonkwo's place as a Egwugwu will be jeapordized.

Summary Chapter 11: They start talking about the Tortiose and the story of the birds. Then Chielo comes to Okonkwo and wants his daughter Ezinma. Okonkwo doesnt want to give her up but finally does. Chielo takes Ezinma and Ekweifi follows. They go through the darkness to Umuachi then turn around and head back to the cave, where Ekweifi waits outside and Okonkwo shows up to save the day.

Prediction: Okonkwo will save the day

Summary chapter 12: There was a big wedding lots of wine and food. There were lots of dancing and cocks and goats. Big cultural party and respected families and clans.

Prediction: Okonkwo will regain his honor in the family

Day 7 Progress: Chapter 13

Summary chapter 13: Ezeudu died and they have a big funural because he was one of the oldest in the clan and also had 3 of the 4 possible titles. They have to wait till night to bury him and they are all saying their last goodbyes and dancing when okonkwos gun goes off and kills Ezeudu's son and knows he must leave the clan because of a female crime. He must go for 7 years. Okonkwo and his family fleed to the motherland and in the morning everything was burned to please the earth goddess.

Prediction: Okonkwo will learn from his mistakes but something bad may happen to him before he gets better.

Day 8 Progress: chapter 14 and 15 16, 17

Summary chapter 14: Okonkwo arrives in Mbanta and no longer feels like working he just lays around. Uchendu his uncle describes why people come back to their motherland and says that it is alright for wanting your mother, but also wants Okonkwo to grow a pair.

Prediction: Okonkwo will change his ways.

Summary chapter 15: Obierka visits Okonkwo and shares how Abame falled and how the white man killed all the tribe after killing the silent white man. They got what they deserved. Then Obierka gave money from the yams to Okonkwo.

Prediction: White men are going to come to Umofia and mbanta or Abame.

Summary chapter 16: The white men, missionaries, came to Umofia and Obierka was puzzled because Nwoye Okonkwos son was with the white men. Obierka went to see Okonkwo to ask what happened. Obeirka gets to Okonkwo and Okonkwo doesnt want to talk about it. Then Okonkwo shared with Obierka how the white man came and talked about their only God and their clan was confused thinking there were many gods like Ani and Agbala, but that these were fake. Then Nwoye started to believe and was puzzled with all of this.

Prediction: The missionaries will spread and Okonkwo will get more angry with Nwoye and many other people.

Summary chapter 17: Mbanta clan sees the missionaries come in and they want land to build a church. They give them the land of the "Black Forrest," where all the bad things were buried. They laugh thinking they were all going to die, but none of them even get sick and so they start to believe in the white man power. Nwoye starts to listen more and after Okonkwo attacks Nwoye, he goes with the missionaries to Umofia and Okonkwo is mad that his son is going to be praying to the white mans god. Okonkwo is going to kill his family if the convert.

Prediction: Okonkwo is going to get blood thirsty.

Day 9 Summary chapter 18: White man are bringing more crisis. converts are still learning the ways. The outcast that go to the white mans church are not accepted back in the clan. Okonkwo wants the converts to not be accepted in the clan and not have all the benefits. The woman converts want to go get water for cleaning the church and the clan wont let them go to the stream. The "python" is killed and it is sacred.

Prediction: More trouble will come from the missionaries.

Summary chapter 19: Okonkwo is getting ready to leave to go home after the 7 year exile. He gets ready to throw a big feast for everyone. When the feast is happening everyone is so happy and excited for a big feast. The have the feast and the older people are scared for the younger clans and fear for them.

Day 10 summary chapter 20 Okonkwo is returning from exile to Umuofia. In the beginning pages he calls his sons together and warns them that they shall not follow in Nwoye's footsteps. He still wishes the Ezinma was a boy, she understands him so well. Okonkwo returns to Umuofia. He is sad at the way his brothers have given in to the white man. Ogbuefi Ugonna was a man of many titles who fled and joined the christians. Aneto was hanged because of a land dispute beween himself and Oduche.

Prediction: Okonkwo will not flourish the way he had the years before.

Summary Chapter 21

Mr. Brown becomes friends with a native of Umuofia, Akunna. Akunna was a great man and sent his son to the convent to learn. Akunna and Mr. Brown have many conversations about religion but neither of them are able to make the other convert. Mr. Brown was neutral and liked by the majority of the clan. Okonkwo was upset by the lack of interest in his return. He was also upset that he couldn't initiate his sons into the ozu society because it was the wrong year. Schools and hospitals are introduced to the clan. Nwoye (Isaac) went off to college to become a teacher in one of the schools. Okonkwo thinks the warlike men are now woman like.

Prediction: More changes are going to be noticeable in the village, more members will attend school and convert.

Summary Chapter 22

Enoch (accused of eating sacred python) tore one of the egwugwu's masks off. This was unthinkable. The clan in anger goes searching for Enoch but is unable to locate him. They destroy his compound and the church.

Prediction: A holy war will erupt between the clan and the missionaries.

Summary Chapter 23

Okonkwo and six men from Umuofia are summoned by the District Commissioner to discuss the happenings of the previous evening and are unknowingly arrested. They are starved and beaten while in imprisoned. The white men want 250 cowries for the prisoners realease or else they would be hung.

Prediction: Okonkwo will be killed.

Summary Chapter 24:

Okonkwo and the six men are released from the prison. They return home. Okonkwo is angry and vows revenge on the missionaries and the white man. A clan meeting is called in broad daylight. The clan declares war knowing they will have to kill some clansmen. The messenger comes and Okonkwo in anger strikes him twice with his machete and calmy walks away.

Prediction: Okonkwo will die

Summary chapter 25: Obierka takes the commisioner and finds Okonkwo Hanging in a tree. He hanged himself and the clansmen couldnt bury him because it was against their culture. THE End.

Discussion Prompts 1. Respect is a good general rule. 2. It is unethical to force religion on a group of people. 3. Detachment causes a learning experience. 4. Female status is always equal to that of a male. 5. Status hierarchy is present in all cultures. 6. Motivation does not always pay off. 7. Emotion is weakness. 8. change is not always a good thing. 9. everyone has a pre-determined fate. 10. Family should always come first.