Things Fall Apart Plot Project

Things Fall Apart Plot Project

By Samantha Berard

Conflict

The white people showed up and they killed a whole village and that scared all the other villages. "...'they killed him and tied up his iron horse. This was before the planting season began. For a long time nothing happened. The rains had come and yams had been sown...They have a big market in Abame on every other Afo day, as you know, the whole clan gathers there. That was the day it happened. The three white men and a very large number of other men surrounded the market...And they began to shot. everybody was killed, except the old and sick....'".(Page 139) Obierika told this to Okonkwo and the whole village found out and put them in fear of the white people coming and whipping out their village.

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Falling Action 1

Falling Action 2

They burned down the Christian church because they could not take it anymore and needed them to leave. "Mr.Smith stood his ground. But he could not save his church. when the egwugwu went away the red-earth church which Mr.Brown build was a pile of earth and ashes. And for a moment the spirit of the clan was pacified."(Page 191). They burned down the church and the white people were devastated.

Rising Action 3

Exposition

When Okonkwo and his family are able to go home they had feast thanking the village and his mother's kinsmen for letting them stay there during there exile. "Okonkwo called his three wives and told them to get things together for a great feast.'I must thank my mother's kinsmen before I go,' He said." (Page 163). He throws a big feast for the whole village thanking them and saying goodbye.

Characters

• Okonkwo
• Nwoye
• White people
• Obierika

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Setting: Things Fall Apart is is located in different villages in Nigeria. On village is Umuofia.

Okonkwo and a bunch of other people where in jail for burning down their church so they told them that they had to pay a fine of 200 cowries if they want to be free. They did not agree so the white people did not give them food or water and after 3 days they started to give in and if they did not pay the fine they would get hanged."...court messengers went into Umuofia to tell the people that their leaders would not be released unless they paid a fine of two hundred and fifty bags of cowries.'Unless you pay the fine immediately said their headman,' we will take your leaders to Umuru before the big white man, and hang them.'"(Page 195-196) The white people threatend that if they did not pay the fine they would hang their leaders so they had no choice but to pay the fine.

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Summary

Rising Action 2

Falling Action 3

Okonkwo threatened his son (Nwoye) because he was with the christians then Nwoye walked out after and never came back. “Nwoye turned round to walk into the inner compound when his father, suddenly overcome with fury, sprang to his feet and griped him by the neck ‘where have you been?’ he stammered. Nwoye struggled to free himself from the choking grip ‘Answer me,’ roared Okonkwo, ‘Before i kill you!’ He seized a heavy stick that lay on the dwarf wall and hit him two or three savage blows… But he left hold of Nwoye, who walked away and never returned” (Page 151-152). Nwoye went to the white people church and his father did not like that very much so he threatened him but Nwoye still believed in that church and left his father.

Things Fall Apart is written by Chinua Achebe. It is about Okonkwos life and the challenges he faces though out his life. He raised a boy who was a treaty between two villages so they would not have to go to war. He raised him for a long time and then the Oracle told him that he had to be sacrificed. That was only one of the challenges he went though. He also got exiled from his village for seven years for accidentally killing a boy. Then white people started to take over the villages and he wanted them to leave so he could live in peace again. He killed a white person and knew that he would get arrested and he knew that the white people would never leave so he killed himself.

Okonkwo killed a white man because he was feed up with this new religion and wanted them to go and leave them alone. "In a flash Okonkwo drew his machete. The messenger crouched to avoid the blow. It was useless. Okonkwo's machete descended twice and the man's head lay beside his uniformed body"(Page 204) Okonkwo wanted to know why the white man was there and he was fed up with the white people so he had the opportunity and killed a white person.

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Rising Action 1

The white people came to their village to build a church told everyone that their was only one god and to believe in their religion. "The missionaries had come to Umuofia. They had build their church there, won a handful of converts and where already sending evangelists to the surrounding towns and villages."(Page 143). The white people build a church in one village and they are slowly getting people to believe in their religion building churches in lots of villages.

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Theme

Okonkwo had a hard time with his society and he went though a lot though his life. He faces challenges when the white people come and when he gets exiled from his home village. He also had challenges with his family and hometown.

Resolution

Climax

Okonkwo killed a white person and he knows that he will go to jail and that his tribe will never be the same so he hung himself before they arrested him. "Then they came to the tree from which Okonkwo's body was dangling, and they stopped dead."(Page 207). Obierika took the white people to Okonkwo's house to arrest him but when they got there he had already taken his life.

White people are telling them that their religion is wrong and that their is only one god. That all their traditions are wrong and they should follow their religion. " The white man had indeed brought a lunatic religion, but he had also built a trading store and for the first time palm-oil and kernel became great price, and much money flowed into Umuofia."(Page 178) The white people are slowly taking over their villages by building markets and making everything expensive so the igbo cannot afford it.

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