Ezinma is the main bridge that connects the reader to Okonkwos compassion throughout the story and by doing so she becomes a symbol of hope. The concept of chi is that it is the basic component of all things that exists. Chi provides energy or power similar to a fresh breath of air which is considered as life in all living things.
Qi or chi is the main reason of existence of human life and a proponent that dictates the quality of health of the human body. Okonkwo is a wealthy man and a noble. Unoka was, however, a skilled flute player and had a gift for, and love of, language. One night, the town crier rings the ogene, or gong, and requests that all of the clansmen gather in the market in the morning. 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.
The crowd expresses anger and indignation, and Okonkwo travels to Mbaino to deliver the message that they must hand over to Umuofia a virgin and a young man. Should Mbaino refuse to do so, the two villages must go to war, and Umuofia has a fierce reputation for its skill in war and magic. Okonkwo is chosen to represent his clan because he is its fiercest warrior. Earlier in the chapter, as he remembers his past victories, we learn about the five human heads that he has taken in battle.
On important occasions, he drinks palm-wine from the first head that he captured. The elders give the virgin to Ogbuefi Udo as his wife but are not sure what to do with the fifteen-year-old boy, Ikemefuna.
The elders decide to turn him over to Okonkwo for safekeeping and instruction. Okonkwo, in turn, instructs his first wife to care for Ikemefuna. In addition to being a skilled warrior, Okonkwo is quite wealthy. He supports three wives and eight children, and each wife has her own hut. Okonkwo also has a barn full of yams, a shrine for his ancestors, and his own hut, called an obi. Okonkwo is not commonly used as a baby boy name.
What is Ogbanje spirit? An Ogbanje is a reincarnating spirit that would deliberately plague a family with misfortune if provoked. Ogbanje upon being born by the mother, under a certain amount of time usually before puberty would deliberately die and then come back and repeat the cycle, causing the family grief. How did Unoka die? What is the main idea of the Second Coming? A summary of the main idea of this poem is that the "Second Coming," as well as any other hope that people look forward to in the future, is not what people will expect.
Where people think there will be light, there is only darkness. Why did Okonkwo kill ikemefuna? In achieving success, fame, and power, Okonkwo habitually resorts to and comes to rely on thoughtless violence.
Without regard for consequences, Okonkwo acts - beats his son, repudiates his father, kills Ikemefuna, butchers the messenger. He becomes the epitome of violent action and as such ultimately destroys himself. What happened to Okonkwo at the end of the story?
Okonkwo's suicide is an unspeakable act that strips him of all honor and denies him the right to an honorable burial. Okonkwo dies an outcast, banished from the very society he fought to protect. In the chapters ahead, the reader should note the qualities and actions that begin to reveal the tragic flaw in Okonkwo's otherwise admirable actions, words, ideas, and relationships with others. At the end of Chapter 1, Achebe foreshadows the presence of Ikemefuna in Okonkwo's household and also the teenage boy's ultimate fate by referring to him as a "doomed" and "ill-fated lad.
One of the most significant social markers of Igbo society is introduced in this chapter — its unique system of honorific titles. Throughout the book, titles are reference points by which members of Igbo society frequently compare themselves with one another especially Okonkwo. These titles are not conferred by higher authorities, but they are acquired by the individual who can afford to pay for them.
As a man accumulates wealth, he may gain additional recognition and prestige by "taking a title. In the process of taking a title, the man pays significant initiation fees to the men who already hold the title. A Umuofian man can take as many as four titles, each apparently more expensive than its predecessor. A man with sufficient money to pay the fee begins with the first level — the most common title — but many men cannot go beyond the first title.
Each title taken may be shown by physical signs, such as an anklet or marks on the feet or face, so others can determine who qualifies for certain titles. The initiation fees are so large that some writers have referred to the system as a means for "redistributing wealth.
The word appears in the book's opening quotation from a W. Yeats poem, "The Second Coming. Umuofia The community name, which means children of the forest and a land undisturbed by European influences. Unoka Okonkwo's father's name; its translation, home is supreme , implies a tendency to stay home and loaf instead of achieve fame and heroism.
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