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Summary Of Okonkwo's 'Things Fall Apart'

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“Things Fall Apart” Ch 8 tells of how Okonkwo doesn’t eat for two days following the death of Ikemefuna. He doesn’t sleep either at night. On the third day, he asked his second wife Ekwefi to roast plantains for him. When His daughter Ezinma brought the food to him, she said “You have not eaten for two days.” “So you must finish this.” As she takes care of him, Okonkwo thinks repeatedly that she should have been born a boy. Okonkwo is ashamed that he has been affected by Ikemefuna 's death.

He went to go speak with one of his good friends, Obierika. Obierika said that he is invited to be with him later while he negotiates the bride price for his daughter. Okonkwo starts to scorn Obierika for not coming to kill Ikemefuna. Obierika then said that Okonkwo shouldn’t have gone.What Okonkwo did is the type of deeds that the gods punish. It is against their traditions to kill a kinsmen. Okonkwo shows up for the negotiation of the bride price. Polite negotiation goes on for a while as the two family struggles to reach a decision between them. …show more content…

Okonkwo slept for the first time in three nights. He gets awoken by Ekwefi banging on the door with urgent news. When he asked “Who is that?”, Ekwefi said that “Ezinma is dying.” Ekwefi had ten children while married to Okonkwo. Nine of them have died. The medicine man said that she gave birth to what is called an ogbanje, a very wicked kid that is possessed by an evil spirit. They die, then returns to their mother’s womb to be reborn as another child, and then die again. Even as a child, Ezinma was always sick. She was susceptible to go through moods of happy times and then very bad times when it seems like she really is going to die. A year before, the medicine man, Okagbue, found Ezinma 's iyi-uwa. The iyi-uwa is believed to be Ezinma’s link to the world of

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