1. Things Fall Apart
Chapters: 16, 17, 18

2. Team Member
Job
Chapter Summary 16, Caption 1, Question 1
Chapter Summary 17, Caption 2, Question 2
Chapter Summary 18 , Caption 3, Question 3
Conflict Analysis, Caption 4, Question 4
SIFT Analysis, Caption 5. Question 5
Character Development Caption 6, Question 6

3. Chapter 16 Summary
A white man comes into the community and tries to tell everyone that there is only one god and all their gods are fake and not real, the white man has converted lots of villagers into his covenant including okonkwo's son ( fall apart 144) “ The arrival of the missionaries had caused a considerable stir in the village of Mbanta. One white man and five other men”.

4. Chapter 17 Summary
The missionaries are given a land plot in evil forest as retaliation for disrespecting the gods of the locals. The locals waited 27 days, however, “At last the day came which all the missionaries should have died. But they were still alive [...]” (pg 151). After this time, Nwoye becomes a convert in secret. Okonkwo beats and then essentially disowns Nwoye, saying that “Nwoye was not worth fighting for” (pg 152).

5. Chapter 18 Summary
In the beginning of the chapter, The Mbanta remain relatively unworried about the church in the forest. They have little interaction, until the missionaries overstep their bonds. Three converts-- villagers who have converted to Christianity-- boast that the Mbanta gods are dead and that they will burn their shrines. This talk outrages the villagers, who beat the converts. Nothing happens between the church and the clan for a while afterwards. (Pg 154)
“The clan was worried, but not overmuch.” This quote shows that they notice what's going on but is not really worried over it.

6. Sift Analysis
The theme of these three chapters is struggle. The Christian's struggle when they come to Okonkwo's village to spread their new faith, and they are met with violent non-believers. We are shown the appropriately violent imagery of convert women returning from the stream near Easter time, and “Some of them had been heavily whipped,”(pg 154) by non-believers who had ostracized the Christians. Okonkwo is met with a great deal of struggle as well, as he battles the disdain he feels for his own son. Okonkwo metaphorically calls his son a woman on page 153, just as he called his father, for whom he held a fair amount of contempt towards. He thus is struggling to understand how he, such a revered man, beget a son who had come to leave his ancestors behind.

7. Conflict Analysis Chapters
Chapter 16: “The missionaries had arrived and caused considerable stir in the village of Mbanta. There were six of them and one was a white man, Every man and woman came out to see the white man” According to Page (144) there were a lot of stories that the African people have told their tribes about the white man. Because one of them had been killed in Abame and his iron horse tied to the silk- cotton tree, and that is why everyone came to see the white man when the harvest was over, the reason that this was a conflict is because everyone has been telling a whole lot of bad rumors about the white man, and when the white man shows up everyone is going to panic and freak out, and things could get violent

8. Character Development
As a little boy Okonkwo had resented his father’s failure and weakness. Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. Okonkwo’s fear was greater It was not external but lay deep within himself. It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father. Okonkwo doesn’t want to be like his father. To Okonkwo his father was a failure and was weak. When Okonkwo grew up he swore not to be a failure or weak like his father. Now that Okonkwo is older he honored in the village but he vicious. Okonkwo ruled his household with a heavy hand. His wives, especially the youngest, lived in the perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little children. Okonkwo was ruled by one passion to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved. One of those things was gentleness another was idleness. Okonkwo was a very strong man and rarely felt fatigue. But his wives and his little children was not strong so they suffered. So when the daughter of Umuofia was killed in Mbanio, Ikemefuna came into Okonkwo’s household. Okonkwo missed Ikemefuna but Okonkwo didn’t understand how he could kill any man and not feel anything or feel bad but when it came to Ikemefuna he felt sick, Okonkwo couldn’t sleep or even eat .

9. Tableaux Captions
MIssionaries (oudhom, koren, logan) sing as Nwoye (damon) feels some feeling (pg 149)
2. Missionaries (oudhom, koren, logan) ask clan (damon, kiki, isaiah) for land to build a church (Pg 148)
3.-Nwoye returns home (Damon) Pg (150)
-Okonkwo (isaiah) grabs Nwoye by the throat and lifts him off his feet yell Pg( 151)
-hits him 3 savage blows with a stick in the chest Pg( 152)
4. Missionaries (oudhom, koren, logan) clear forest as the clan (damon, kiki, isaiah) look on Pg(152 )
5. Okonkwo (isaiah) stands angrily in disagreeance with the counsel (extras), while one of us acts peaceful (kiki) Pg ( 159 )
6. The women (everyone but logan) return from the stream with empty baskets and in hysterics, while mr. Kiaga (logan) looks puzzledly Pg(160)

10. Question 1: What was oddly humorous about the interpreter’s dialect
Question 1: What was oddly humorous about the interpreter’s dialect? What effect did this have on the men who came to listen to him? (16)
The interpreter said “my buttocks” instead of “myself.” This misinterpretation kept his listeners from taking him seriously, and allowed them to make jokes at his expense. One person mocks him on page 145, saying “‘Your buttocks understand our language.’”

11. Question 2: What does the author mean when he ways Nwoye’s soul is “parched”? Explain how the events in his life have led Nwoye to feel this way. (16)
Nwoye’s soul was deficient of happiness. Pg 147 “The hymn about the brothers… fear” fear of his dad… didn’t understand the sad things like ikemefuna being killed

12. Question 3: What is Okonkwo’s greatest fear with regard to Nwoye joining the church? How is this contrary to Ibo’s belief systems? (17)
Okonkwo fears after his death, his younger sons will abandon the family ancestors because they have been attracted to the new religion. This is contrary to ibo’s belief systems because, “He saw himself and his father's crowding round their ancestral shrine waiting in vain for worship and sacrifice and finding nothing but ashes of bygone days, and his children the while praying to the white man’s god.” This shows that Nwoye is disrespecting his ancestors and this makes Okonkwo’s mad.

13. Question 4: Okonkwo uses the metaphors “fire” and “ash” to describe himself and his son. Why does he believe these metaphors are appropriate? Do you agree or disagree? Explain your thoughts. (17)
Okonkwo compares himself to fire because according to the book, “Okonknwo was a man of universally acknowledged prowess,” (pg 38) He came from the disgrace of his father with no advantage at all and grew to be famous, powerful, and gain many titles. However, “Nwoye resembled his grandfather, Unoka, who was Okonkwo’s father,” (pg 153). Okonkwo describes Nwoye as “degenerate and effeminate,” (pg 153). I agree because Okonkwo has a grand amount of renown within his village and the villages neighbouring his, because of his “manly” actions throughout his life while. His son, however, is the exact and impotent opposite of Okonkwo.

14. Question 5: What other systems has the white man brought
Question 5: What other systems has the white man brought? What is the purpose of this new system? (18)
The white man also brought a government. This government was to “protect their followers of their religion” from being murdered by non-believers (page 155).

15. Question 6: Analyze the elder’s claim that among the Ibo, “It is not our custom to fight for our gods.” Why are other instances of criminal behavior, like the killing of the “daughter of Umuofia” and the murder Okonkwo committed, not handled in the same manner?(18)
Other instances of criminal behavior, Is when Okonkwo beat his wife on peace day. Since it’s peace day you can’t beat or hurt anyone on peace day, but Okonkwo was various with his wife that he beat her and left her and her child crying.