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Things Fall Apart
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 | Uploaded | Okonkwo is a strong, powerful, respected warrior and leader of the Umuofia clan in Nigeria. |
 | Uploaded | Okonkwo adopts a boy named Ikemefuna after he was given to the clan in a peace treaty. |
 | Uploaded | Okonkwo becomes fond of Ikemefuna and the boy looks up to him and calls him “father.” |
 | Uploaded | One day the village Oracle comes to Okonkwo and says that Ikemefuna must be killed. |
 | Uploaded | He warns Okonkwo not to take part in Ikemefuna’s death since the boy looks to him as a father. |
 | Uploaded | Okonkwo and his clansmen take Ikemefuna on a long walk. |
 | Uploaded | Okonkwo’s clansmen begin to attack the boy with machetes. |
 | Uploaded | Ikemefuna runs to Okonkwo for help from his “father”…. |
 | Uploaded | But Okonkwo deals the final fatal blow as to not look weak to his clansmen. |
 | Uploaded | Things begin to fall apart for poor Okonkwo. |
 | Uploaded | At the funeral service for a village elder, Okonkwo’s gun accidentally explodes and kills the dead man’s son. |
 | Uploaded | Okonkwo and his family are forced to leave for 7 years for his crime. |
 | Uploaded | White missionaries begin to come to the Nigerian villages preaching the gospel. |
 | Uploaded | Many of Okonkwo’s clansmen in Umuofia are forced to convert for fear that they will be harmed. |
 | Uploaded | One of the christian converts from Okonkwo’s clan interrupts a very special tribal ceremony. |
 | Uploaded | Okonkwo returns to his clan and joins other tribal leaders when they burn down a Christian Church. |
 | Uploaded | The white men arrest Okonkwo and the other leaders. |
 | Uploaded | Okonkwo urges his clan to go to war and when a white messenger tries to stop his meeting, Okonkwo kills him. |
 | Uploaded | Unfortunately, Okonkwo’s clan has changed since he left, and they do not support him. |
 | Uploaded | When the local white leader comes to arrest him, he finds that Okonkwo has hanged himself. |