JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. Click the character infographic to download. Ikemefuna is a fifteen-year-old boy from a neighboring clan, Mbaino, who is given up to Umuofia as a sacrifice for killing one of the women of Umuofia.
At a ceremony for the death of Ezeudu, Okonkwo is part of the gun ceremonial shooting. As learned earlier, Okonkwo is very inexperienced with guns.
In compliance with the earth goddess, Okonkwo is banished from Umuofia for seven years. All Okonkwo once had would soon all be destroyed. Along with his house and farm, his reputation and dignity are set aflame. This sets Okonkwo into great grief and remorse, and he begins to regret his decisions.
Deep down he has remorse but has to keep his feelings to …show more content… With the arrival of the white man, was the spread of Christianity.
Okonkwo hated the new ideas. Okonkwo is a very religiously intolerant man, he feels as if his native culture is being destroyed, and wants to protect it as best he can. Okonkwo is enraged to find this out. Nwoye is starting to resemble the father he always hated. Okonkwo is buried in sorrow, and cannot balance. Show More. Read More. 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.
Respect and success are based on only manly activities and accomplishments; taking care of children and hens, on the other hand, are womanly activities.
In Okonkwo's determination to be a perfect example of manhood, he begins to reveal the consequences of his fear of weakness — his tragic flaw.
Okonkwo hates not only idleness but also gentleness; he demands that his family works as long as he does without regarding their lesser physical stamina , and he nags and beats his oldest son, Nwoye. 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.
In addition, the reader learns that Umuofian religious traditions include the worship of wooden objects representing not only one's personal god but also the ancestral spirits to whom one prays and makes sacrifices. 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 proverb, "When the moon is shining, the cripple becomes hungry for a walk," represents a belief in the protective quality of moonlight in contrast with the fear of the darkness.
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. Who did Okonkwo kill in the end? His sickly daughter Ezinma falls unexpectedly ill and it is feared she may die; during a gun salute at Ezeudu's funeral, Okonkwo's gun accidentally explodes and kills Ezeudu's son.
He and his family are sent into exile for seven years to appease the gods he has offended. Why does ikemefuna die? Ezeudu then warns Okonkwo not to take part in Ikemefuna's death. While Achebe does not directly state why the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves has decided that Ikemefuna should die, one could surmise that his death is retribution for the woman killed three years before in Mbaino.
What crime did Okonkwo commit? During the Week of Peace, Okonkwo commits the crime of beating his wife. This is his first crime against the earth. As punishment, he is told to make a ritual sacrifice, which he does.
Why is ikemefuna important? Ikemefuna serves the purpose that Oknokwo's tribe will not go to war with Mbaino: A young boy named Ikemefuna is given to Umuofia in order to avoid war.
While living with Okonkwo, Ikemefuna becomes like a son to Okonkwo. In fact, he is more of a son than Nwoye is.
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