Part III- Things Fall Apart

Okonkwo has everything planed when he returns to Umuofia, He have two more wives and two beautiful unmarried daughters.

He thought that he will caused an impact to the village, however this will not be possible because Umuofia change. The church had develop and grow in strength and the white men develop a juridical system to the village.

Okonkwo was very  mad because he couldn't believe that a strong people as Umuofia wouldn't exile the white men, but the event of Abame cause sadness and fear among the people. 

However, Akuna ( one of the clans leader) and Mr. Brown, the white missionary spend hours talking about religion, but the white missionary was a clever man because he began to learn about religion and who to manipulate the people of Umuofia. So he began to built schools and hospitals but Mr. Brown began to get ill so he was force to go away, and Mr Smith took his place.

Mr. Smith wasn't a clever man as Mr. Brown, he was very close minded and intolerant person, so he only knew one thing: black is bad and white is good. As time passed, more and more people began to convert, one of them was Enoch, he was an intolerant and selfish man who unmask an egwugwu during the annual ceremony to honor Mother Earth. The next day, egwugwu burn up the church.

Time passed and Mr. Smith talk to the District Commissioner; they

 talk to the clans leaders and Okonkwo was among them, the news 

was that they could allowed another violent crime as the egwugwu

 do, so they say that they had to pay two hundred fifty bags of cowries, if they didn't pay them, the leaders will be death.

The people of Umuofia decided to pay the fine.

After their release, the village began to get mad towards the white men, so they set up a meeting. The next morning, Okonkwo was enthusiastic and exited because he thought that his people finally will fight against the white men. He took out his war clothes and his machete, the began to remember his years of glory.

At the meeting, they were gather all the clan´s nine years; the first speaker began to lament about the damage caused by the church and the white men. He reminded the clan that is worth to fight against this injustice. In the middle of the speech, five court messengers were among the crowd so Okonkwo took his machete and kills one of them. The reaction of the crowd wasn't Okonkwo expectations, they allowed the messengers escaped and they began to question Okonkwo, why he killed a messenger? .

In that moment, Okonkwo understand that the people will never going to fight.

The District Commissioner began to search for Okonkwo, and the ones that didn't cooperate they will go to prision. Obierka and a group of men began to search for him and they found Okonkwo in a tree, he hanged himself.

Things Fall Apart

Achebe, C. (1958) Things Fall Apart. New York: Reed Consumer Books.