PART TWO: SUMMARY

PART TWO: SUMMARY

After Okonkwo´s crime, he was exiled within his family, so he went to Mbanta to stay with his mother, when he arrived he received the help from his uncle Uchendu and his mother´s kinsmen to built his obi and three huts for Okonkwo´s wives, also he received three pieces of land for farming.

It seems that the life of Okonkwo was raising again, but in his mind was falling apart, Okonkwo felt depressed and his joy and enthusiasm was lost. He had this goal of being a chief of the clan, in which he will never achieve.

The second year of exile arrived, Obierka came to visit Okonkwo. He brought with him two young men to carry bags full of cowries. Uchendu received the guests and begin to drink wine. While they were drinking, Obierka told them an event that will change the life of Umuofia forever.

"The Abame has been wiped out" this unbelievable and terrible story was about the arrival of a white man ridding an iron horse in Abame, but it wasn't an albino, it was different. The clan went to ask the Oracle for advice and the message was " The strange man would break the clan and spread destruction among them". In that moment, the clan went to kill the white man, but the problem was that the white man didn't say anything. 

The last thing is what worries Uchendu, because after killing the white men, the land of Abame was cursed. It occurred a big market in Abame and three white men and a large number of men surrounding the market, and they began to shoot and everyone of the clan was killed except the old and the sick that were in their homes.

Two years later, Obierka pay another visit to Okonkwo, but this time the event was that missionaries had come to Umuofia, they built a church and convents and they send evangelists to the surrounding villages or clans. It was a chaos. The thing that motivated Obierka to visit his friend is seeing Nwoye among the missionaries in Umuofia and when Obierka tried to speak with the son of his friend and ask him about Okonkwo he just answer " He is not my father".

The arrival of the missionaries in Mbanta has caused a chaos among the people, because all the stories about the white man and terrible.The White men began to talk about the new religion; God and Hell within the purpose of convince the clan that their religion was wrong. When they  mentioned Jesu Kristi, Okonkwo began to make fun of him, also he cannot believed that his son was captivated.

Three moons has passed, and the missionaries were in the need of a piece of land to built a church so the clan gave them what they wanted but in the Evil Forest with the hope that the white man were death within four days. The time passed and the clan thought that the white men presented like a rare magic or an unbelievable power. Thanks of this, the clan began to think that the new religion was true. Since that day Okonwkwo fear the future for the children and his son.

The time passed and more members of the clan become Christians, the outcasts found a place were they belong in the new religion, and the clan was divided more and more. New statements were declared to take off the rights of the new Christians.

Seven days of exile were finally over, so Okonkwo prepare a big feast to gave thanks and he was ready to go back to Umuofia.

BY: SANDRA CASTAÑEDA MOTA

Story: "Mother Kite"

STORY: " MOTHER KITE"

CHAPTER 15: " THINGS FALL APART" BY CHINUA ACHEBE

Obierka came to visit Okonkwo and bring to him some cowries with the help of two young men. Uchendu has been told that three strangers had come to Okonkwo´s house, so he went to know them.

While they were drinking wine, Obierka told them an event of the arrival of a white man riding an iron horse to the village of Abame, and the Oracle´s advice was that" the strange man would break their clan and spread distraction among them", so the clan  killed the man.
Obierka told them that the white man don't say a word before they killed him, and after that the clan was now completely empty, the lake turn red as blood and a great evil has come upon their land.

" Never kill a man who says nothing. Those men of Abame were fools. What did they know about the man." said Uchendu.

At that moment, Uchendu told them a story to illustrate his point, " Story of Mother Kite"

This story begins when Mother Kite sent his daughter kite to search for food, she went out and come back with a duckling. Mother Kite asked her child what did the mother of the duckling say when you took its child away, the daughter answer that she said nothing. Mother Kite quickly told her to return the duckling. Daughter Kite do what her mother told her and come back with a chick, Mother Kite asked her the same question, and her daughter answer that the Mother of the chick cried and began to cursed her, and that moment Mother Kite told her that it was fine to eat the chick.

The story´s message of  is that the person who didn't say a thing when someone else do something terrible towards him or her, is a person to be aware of. It´s a sign that something terrible is going to happened.

In conclusion, Uchendu told that story because he was explaining who fool the village of Abame had looked when they killed the white man that didn't say nothing, and that´s the reason that the Abame is suffering from a great evil upon their land.

BY: SANDRA CASTAÑEDA MOTA







REFERENCE:
Chebe,C.(1994).THINGS FALL APART. New York, Anchor-Books