Things Fall Apart A Beginner’s Guide to Yam Farming Chapters: 13, 14, 15,

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Team MemberJob SIFT Analysis, Caption 1, Question 1 Chapter Summary 13, Caption 2, Question 2 Chapter Summary 14, Caption 3, Question 3 Conflict Analysis, Caption 4, Question 4 Chapter Summary 15, Caption 5. Question 5 Character Development Caption 6, Question 6

Chapter 13 Summary There was a death in one of the clans. To start they named the clan which the man came from, “ the land of the brave.” Then it named the village, “Iguedo of the yellow grinding-stone.” Finally they named the man who died, “ Ezeudu is dead.” It was a warrior's funeral and everyone was there. Sometimes ancestral spirits appeared from the underworld. They were called egwugwu, some were very violent, others were harmless. Right before the burial was about to happen the crowd found the dead man’s 16 year old son dead, laying in a pool of blood. Okonkwo’s gun exploded and a piece of iron hit his heart. Okonkwo was forced to flee for killing a clansmen is a crime against the earth goddess. He could return after 7 years. Soon after a large group of men stormed Okonkwo’s compound and set fire to his houses.

Chapter 14 Summary Okonkwo was well received by his dead mother and his mother’s younger brother Uchendu

Chapter 15 Summary In Okonkwo’s second year of exile his friend Obierika brings him money from the yams at his old farm and they are talking about the white people that killed off one of the villages near them. At the end, Okonkwo offers to repay Obierka and asks how he can do so. Obierka replies by saying Okonkwo should kill his son. Okonkwo declines, and Obierka tells Okonkwo he should kill himself. Finally, Okonkwo states that he is no longer considering repaying his friend.

Conflict Analysis Chapters Inside chapter 15 the tribe started fighting with white people

SIFT Analysis S: Wooden Instrument( Ekwe talkin to the clan, one things every man learned, the language of this instrument). I: At a elders funeral F: T: The authors want to be like Okonkwo in his positive ways, strong, brave, takes care of his family, great a farming,and athletic. Verses his negative ways, Beats wives and children, kills for no reason and disrespects elders by disobeying their authority.

Character Development Okonkwo doesn’t seem to develop much when you analyze his character at face value. Upon further inspection, though, his cognition and thoughts seem to be conflicting with his actions. Okonkwo is questioned by a man from his mother’s home-village about why he beats his sons and claims his children only belong to him. Okonkwo doesn’t respond and remains speechless. In summary, it appears that Okonkwo (at heart) knows what he does isn’t right. But he rejects it and continues to refuse to change.

Tableaux Captions 1.A great warrior in Okonkwo’s villages dies (121) 2.Okonkwo is forced to flee after accidently killing a clansmen (124) 3.Okonkwo mother well received him and his mothers brother Uchendu (129) 4. Uchendu gather everybody to have a talk about suffering (133) 5. Okonkwo and Obierika talk about the fall of Abame (138) 6. Okonkwo and Obierka argue and Okonkwo gets roasted. (142)

Question 1: What does the author mean when he writes “A man’s life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors? (13) Throughout a man’s life there are titles you have to achieve throughout your life and if you achieve those title that shows you are worthy to have a proper burial and to be with your ancestors. The way you can achieve these title are by hunting, wrestling, killing (heads), amount of wives you have, farming skills and the amount of respect you give your elders. The pattern of it is that your past life determines who you are in your current life and your current life determines your burial/ after life.

Question 2: How does the funeral demonstrate the greatness of the man who has died? (13) Ancient drums of death beat and guns and cannons were fired. The one handed spirit walked through and called to Ezeuda, “If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before.” (123) Ezeuda took three titles while he was living. Since Ezeuda had these three titles, he was to be buried after dark with only a glowing brand to light the sacred ceremony.

Question 3: How is Okonkwo greeted by his mother’s kinsmen? Why do you think they do not judge him negatively for his crime? (14) Okonkwo was well received by his mother kinsmen in Mbanta. A old man received him to and it was his mother’s younger brother Uchendu. I think they didnt judge him because everybody suffer in life, like he thinks “he is the greatest sufferer in the world Pg 135” but he isn’t. A lot of poeple suffer like they been vanished from there clan for life. Like Uchendu has suffer he had six wives and now he has that young girl that isnt smart. One of his phrase is, “For whom is it well,for whom is it well, There is no one for whom it is well” Pg 135

Question 4: What is chi? Why does Okonkwo now believe “a man could not rise above the destiny of his chi?” (14) I think he says that because chi is something that happens to okonkwo a lot in the novel and you can’t really rise up without it. Also he says “a man could not rise above the destiny of his chi” there is also another understanding of chi on chapter 4 quoting “when a man says yes his chi says yes also, and okonkwo seems sometimes either responsible or less responsible with his own tragic death he did.

Question 5: Why did Uchendu say that men of Abame were fools? Why did Okonkwo say the same? Is each of their logic sound? (15) They said that because they forgot a story of the daughter that went to get a duck to cook and how you don’t kill something that doesn't speak. They said that the white man that came to the village never spoke at least not in a language they understood so when they killed him they were fools and in the end they got what they asked for when they were killed by the white men or albino men.

Question 6: Why do you think the white men killed the people of Abame? Were they justified in doing so? Why or why not?(15) I believe the white men killed the people of Abame because they did not comply. They tried converting the people of Abame to the religion of the white men, and they were likely not taken seriously. I also concluded that the Abame village might have tried to rebel or fight the white men and lost, resulting in the destruction of their own people. My conclusion is mostly based on the way the people reacted to the whites at the village Okonkwo was visiting.

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