The "normal course of action" when a member of a neighboring clan murders one of the Ibo is to ask them to choose between war or offer a young man and a virgin as compensation. How does the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves prevent the powerful Umuofia from going to war with their neighbors?
The normal course of action when a member of a neighboring clan murders one of the Ibo was to set an ultimatum and make the neighboring clan, which in this case, it was Mbaino, which asked them to choose between war or offering a young man and a virgin to the clan that had one of their people killed as compensation.
In Chapter 2, the reader begins to see beliefs and practices of the Igbo tradition that are particularly significant in the story — for example, the wide division between masculine and feminine actions and responsibilities.
It's explained that marriage should be more of a play rather than a fight, so they kept lowering to amount of sticks because they didn't want to make the whole thing turn into a fight. What do the Ibo people think about white men in general?
Summary: Chapter 2 At the gathering, Ogbuefi Ezeugo, a noted orator, announces that someone from the village of Mbaino murdered the wife of an Umuofia tribesman while she was in their market.
When a daughter of Umuofia is killed in Mbaino, they send out an ultimatum immediately—either engage in war or compensate with a young man and a virgin girl. The girl is handed over to the man whose wife was killed and the young man awaits his fate, living in Okonkwo's compound.
One of the outcasts, however, brings the church into conflict with the clan when he kills the royal python, the most revered animal in Mbanta. The clan decides to ostracize the Christians, preventing them from using the stream. When Mr.
The Ibo people become the victims of the colonial politics and many people die as a result of colonialism. The same things happen to him. When conflicts came up between villages, the white government would intervene instead of allowing villagers to settle them themselves.
Lesson Summary In Chapter 2 of Things Fall Apart, the village of Mbaino sends a young virgin woman and a young man, Ikemefuna, to Umuofia as payment to avoid a war.
The outraged crowd finally agrees that Umuofia should follow its usual course of action: Give Mbaino a choice of either going to war with Umuofia or offering Umuofia a young man and a young virgin as compensation for the death of the Umuofian woman.
Chapter 18- How does the church handle the issue of the outcasts? They invite in the outcast. Some of the church members left the church when the outcasts arrived/joined.
What does District Commissioner do three days after the destruction of the church? he sent a messenger to leaders of Umuofia to meet him at his headquarters. What happens to the six leaders of Umuofia during their meeting with the District Commissioner?
The villagers await the arrival of the egwugwu, as this group of men stands in judgment for clan disputes and settles them accordingly.
Tragedy. Things Fall Apart fits the definition of tragedy because it documents both the personal downfall of Okonkwo and the broader erosion of the Igbo cultural world that Okonkwo wishes to defend.
The appearance of Christianity on the Nigerian tribal land led to the disintegration of belief in the Igbo society, and made way for British colonization. Were the British the only cause of the destruction of the Igbo culture? The appearance of a new religion was not the sole reason for the loss of a tradition.
"Things Fall Apart" is not a literally true story; it may be considered allegorical or perhaps closer to historical fiction.
In Chapter 2, the reader begins to see beliefs and practices of the Igbo tradition that are particularly significant in the story — for example, the wide division between masculine and feminine actions and responsibilities.
Summary and Analysis Part 1: Chapter 2. Summary and Analysis. Part 1: Chapter 2. One night, as Okonkwo is settling on his bed, he hears the beat of a drum and the voice of the town crier. The messenger summons every man in Umuofia to gather at the marketplace the next morning.
The legend of the old woman with one leg explains, in part, why the other clans fear Umuofia. Ogbuefi a person with a high title, as in Ogbuefi Ezeugo (the orator) and Ogbuefi Udo (the man whose wife was killed in Mbaino). Ezeugo the name for a person of high religious significance, such as an Igbo priest. Udo peace.
Achebe continues to use the art of traditional storytelling and references to legends and sayings of the time to illustrate what people believe and respect. For example: Okonkwo remembers from childhood when his father was called a woman.
The prosperous compound also includes an enclosure with stacks of yams, sheds for goats and hens, and a medicine house, where Okonkwo keeps the symbols of his personal god and ancestral spirits and where he offers prayers for himself and his family. He works long hours on his farms and expects others to do the same.
Because Okonkwo is continually afraid that someone may consider him weak, he rules his household with a stern hand and a fierce voice, causing everyone to fear his explosive temper. When he was a child, a playmate called his father agbala, which means woman and also a man who has taken no title.
Achebe continues weaving traditional elements of Igbo society into Chapter 2. The marketplace gathering illustrates the Igbo society's reverence for what is "manly" — for example, the male villagers' loyalty to each other when they refer to the woman murdered by another village as "a daughter of Umuofia.".