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 * THINGS FALL APART WIKI**

group members: Sam Kirchoff Max Stierwalt Patrick Troy Kevin V Caitlyn R McKenzie Wolff

DAY 1: Progress: Finished the elephant story, and read 3 pages into the story

Summary: The story explains his names and how he got it from the wrestler. He then tells about his father and how he didnt like his father who played a flute.

Predictions: we will eventually get to something more plot related, and/or learn about the village.

DAY 2: Progress: Almost finished with chapter 2, on page 12.

Summary: Got introduced to Unoka - Okonkwos father (coward, opposite of Okonkwo) A town meeting was called and it was announced that a woman (Ogbuefi Udo's wife) was killed in Mbaino In return, they got a young man that lived with Okonkwo and a virgin to replace the wife

Predictions:

DAY 3: Progress: started chapter 4, on page 24

Summary: Unoka goes to the orical to talk about yam crops, said he doesnt work hard enough. Okonkwo went to nwakibie's hut to drink and told stories. Okwonko asked for seeds to start his crops. it was a bad year- dry and than soon very rainy. There was a meeting and Okwonko called osugo a woman and the rest of the village went against him. Nwoye's mom takes care of Ikemefuna and he gets sick due to eating yams.

Predictions: There will be more talk about how Ikemefuna is treated and how he is affected by it.

Day 4: Progress: chapter 6

Summary: There was a week of peace before the harvest where no one in Umuofia is allowed to say mean things or hurt one another. Okonkwo broke the peace by beating Ojiugo, his youngest wife. He then got punished by Ezeani. His punishment is that he needs to bring a goat, a hen, cloth and cowries to the shrine. Okonkwo, Ikemefuna, and Nwoye start to harvest the yams and Okonkwo tells them they don't know how to do it. Ikemefuna starts to become part of the family and is getting over his old life. In chapter 5, the Feast of the New Yam is taking place. Okonkwo beat Ekwefi for cutting a few leaves off a banana tree. He shot at her. We got introduced to Ezinma, Ekwefi's only daughter. They are planning on going to the wrestling match. Obialgeli, Nwoye's sister, breaks a pot while trying to balance it on her head and acting like a woman. She laughs when it breaks but cries when she returns to the others.

Predictions: Okonkwo will do something that will cause him to go to the oracle and sacrfice more items.

Day 5: Progress: to page 58

Summary: The wrestling matches go on. The final match is between the leaders of the matches, Okafo and Ikzue who both fight in the same style and have a history of great fights. Okafo won. In chapter 7, Nwoye is starting to become a man and is having stories told to him by Okonkwo now rather than his mother. Ikemefuna is finally part of the family and is like a big brother to Nwoye. The locusts come and eat the wild grass. Everyone is joyful because it is a rare treat -- they get to eat them. Ezeudu comes to talk to Okonkwo and tells him that the Oracle ordered Ikemefuna to be killed. Ikemefuna thinks he is going back home and is being taken out of Umuofia to be killed. The first person to try and kill him fails and Ikemefuna runs to Okonkwo who kills him because he doesn't want to look weak. He feels very guilty about it. He goes to his good friend's house Obierika and Obierika says that Okonkwo shouldn't have been the one to kill him. They find out that Ogbuefi Ndulue (the oldest man in Ire) died, and his wife killed herself when she found out the news.

Predictions: Okonkwo is going to do something about his guilt towards killing Ikemefuna.

Day 6: Progress: to page 78

Summary: Okonkwo starts to return to his normal self; he starts to eat and sleep again. He goes back to Obierkas and they determine the bride price of Akueke, Obierkas child. They determine the bride price to be 20 bags of cowries. Ezinma gets sick, she is shivering and sweating laying next to the fire. We learn about Ekwefi's past and how 9 out of 10 of her children died before the age of 3. Ezinma is a ogbanje which is a wicked child who returns to the mother after it dies. To kill the evil spirit, they have to dig up her iyi-wua, a small pebble that forms a link between the ogbnaje and the spirit world. They destroy it and it is a year later that she gets sick. They make her drink iba, a medicine and she falls asleep shortly after. In chapter 10, they are at a ceremony with egwugwus, which are impersonators of evil spirits of the ancestors of the village.

Predictions: We will find out why the ceremony is taking place.

Day 7: Progress: to page 105

Summary: The ceremony of the egwugwus was similar to a court case, where Uzowulu and Odukwe were fighting about Uzowulu's wife and her misscarried baby. They decided that if Uzowulu brought wine to the in laws that she would take him back. In chapter 11, they are having story telling time and in the middle of Ezinmas story, she is interrupted by Chielo, the priestess of Agbala. She takes Ezinma away to the farthest village in the clan, and then back to the caves of the oracle. Okonkwo and Ekwefi are both following Chielo. They are celebrating Obierka's uri, which is basically a bridal shower. 50 pots of palm wine were brought. In the beginning of chapter 12, the instrument ekwe was played throughout the villages to tell that Ezeudu died.

Predictions: We will learn how Ezeudu died. Something might go wrong at Obeirka's funeral.

Day 8: Progress: to page 115

Summary: They were at the funeral of Ezeudu and everything went silent and a 16-year-old boy (Ezeudu's son) was dead in a pool of blood. Okonkwo accidentally shot him and was banned from the clan for 7 years. He fled to the "motherland" (Mbanta) and stayed with his uncle Uchendu. Okonkwo took his wives and children with him and made them new huts and started a new life. They go to an isa-ifi ceremony where they ask Uchendu's son's new wife questions as she sits in the middle of a circle with a chicken. Uchendu asks Okonkwo questions and he doesn't know the answers and Uchendu calls him out and tells Okonkwo that his life isn't that bad. Obierika visits with two people and is talking about white people getting killed in Abame.

Predictions: We think that white men will come to their village.

Day 9: Progress: chapter 18, p 129

Summary: The missionaries (white men) come to Umuofia and Obierika sees that Nwoye is with them. He asks why he is there and Nwoye says that Okonkwo is no longer his father and he is one of the missionaries. Obierika goes to Mbanta to find out what happened and realizes that the missionaries were already there and they came and built a church and tried to convert people to Christianity. Nwoye joined them and Okonkwo disowned him.

Predictions: There will be more conflict between Nwoye and Okonkwo.

Day 10 Progress chapter 23 159

Summary Ok goes back to umofia and figures out that he lost his titles and is not wanted. Ok and Ezimna grow closer becuase she understands his feelings. missionaries built a gov system, store for trade, hospital, and school. it spreads to other villages. mr brown gets sick and has to leave the flock. Nowoye name gets changed to issac, hes sent to a collage for training. no one payed attention to OK when he returned. Enoch killed a spirt and Eguwu come after him but he is hiding in a parsonage, they burn down the church since they think it was missionaries fault.

Day 11 summay: Meeting called to punish 6 people. the mens heads were shaved and put in prison, they were neglected. the village crier called another meeting to stand up for themselves. OK cut off a messages head for trying to stop the meeting. the others ran away. next day ok killed himself and obierika needed help getting the body down so he asked the district commisionar to help.

Prompts Friends are always loyal women in society are lesser than men it is hard to break old traditions it is hard to gain a status be fairly easy to lose it traditions will not last forever one doesnt always have to follow in their fathers footsteps you dont always have to accept things but they will happen anyways the minority may not always be the weaker sometimes it is better to follow your own instincts violence is never the answer