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=1-27-11= progress- halfway through chapter one

summary- okonkwo is a good wrestler who defeated the "cat". talks about traits of his father and how he likes music, has a lot of debt that keeps building up, and that his relationship with okonkwo isnt good. his father also met with okoie. okoye asked okonkwos father to pay his debt to him but he just laughed and said that he needed to pay his big debts first. a man was sacrificed to save a village from war.

predictions- civil war might happen soon. a fight between okonkwo and his father. something happenin with the "kites". his father trying to repay his debts.

chapter two
 * 1-31-11**

summary- at the beginning, a woman from umofia was killed in mbaino. mbaino was offered the choice of war or trading a virgin and a man as a sacrifice to the clan. umofia was one of the greatest battling countries in the region and had a medicine lady that was thought to make them strong. a declaration of war had to be granted by the oracle of hills and caves. the murdered wife was replaced by the virgin while the man was given to the clan. okonkwo had to be his gaurdian until the decision was made of what to do with him. further naration of okonkwo's hatred for his father was displayed by his fear of becoming his father.

predictions- trying to sacrifice ikemefuna, but okonkwo "falls in love" with him and tries to save him. or okonkwos head wife falls in love with ikemefuna and okonkwo gets mad and kills him and his wife. or kills himself.

chapter 3

progress- we got into chapter three a little bit

summary- unoka goes to visit the oracle to see why his crops doesnt grow and the priestess says that he's lazy and needs to work harder. he dies later in the evil forest discracefully and brings his flute. okonkwo starts his life wife nothing and is possessed by the fear of becoming his father. oracles name is agabala which means woman or untitled man. okonkwo goes to a party and asks for seeds from the host to start his farm. gets more then he expected. is like his father by building up debt. igbuelo, nwakibie's son, is hated by idigo and there is tension between the two. igbuelo has recently been married to his first wife. oracle tells okonkwo to sacrifice goat but he questions his authroity. bad crop season for his first growing season. man hung himself because of bad season.

predictions- idigo might try to get rid of igbuelo so that he is next in line for inheritance. bad crop season is because of his feelings toward his father and not sacrificing the goat. okonkwo might not try to pay back his debt. okonkwo will never have success growing crops. man who hung himself was amalinsey the cat who okonkwo defeated. may attempt to repay his debts so he's not like his father.

chapter 4

summary- okonkwo calls osugo a woman at the clan meeting because of something he said. okonkwo is adopting ikemefuna as his son. treats him better then his other sons. brings him to town meetings. nwoye is okonkwos oldest son born by his first wife. ojiugo is his third wife who he beats during the week of piece when he is told that he has to give a large sacrifice because of beating his wife during this time. yams are manly crops and only men can grow them. his sons are to young to know what this means.

predicitons- something bad with the crops will happen and the town will blame him. three toothed woman will return, okonkwo might get kicked out of the clan because of what he's done and will start his own clan. the second the week of piece is over the town will punish him for what he'd done to his wife. okonkwo will make ikemefuna his heir and will receive everything once okonkwo dies.

progress- starting chapter five next class

Ch. 5

summary- talk about how they are going to have the feast of the yams which is like their end of the year. okonkwo would much rather work on his farm then have the feast at his home. okonkwo shot at his wife ikewfi because she cut leaves off of a banana tree to wrap food in but missed and then moved on. ikewfi ran away from her original wife to come live with okonkwo. one of his daughters, obiagali broke her pot because she was showing off. drums started anouncing the wrestling match that is to come later on that night.

predictions- the daughter that had the twitchy eye has a tumor and will die. ikemefuna and obiageli might be married. okonkwo might have relations with with his one daughter that looks like his wife. okonkwo will go to the wrestling match and will end up being the one wrestling.

ch 6.

summary- they arrived at the wrestling match. the match began with the younger boys wrestling first and maduka son of obierka won his match and was carried away on the shoulders of others. high priestess calls one of okonkwos daughters her daughter. then the men wrestle and okafu wins his match and is carried off triumphantly as the town hero.

predictions- okonkwo will wrestle okafu for title of best wrestler. his daughter will become the new high priestess. izema will get sick.

ch. 7

summary- okonkwo is prowed of his sons hatred towards women and how he is becoming like his father. talked about how the locusts come every couple of years. this time they went out at night and gathered them to eat them. ikemefuna was killed outside of the village. they told him he was going home and ended up killing him on the way there. okonkwo helped kill ikemefuna in fear of being thought that he is weak.

predictions- okonkwos oldest son will try to kill him because of how he helped to kill ikemefuna. ikemefunas spirit will come back to haunt okonkwo and the village. okonkwo will die somehow.

ch 8.

summary- okonkwo was feeling guilty about killing ikemefuna and was not eating or sleeping well. he started to question himself and call himself a woman for feeling guilty. goes to visit his friend obierka to talk things out. obierka invites him to the bride price negotiations. they go through the whole celebration and decide on a price.O.N dies and his wife dies soon after but no drums. they talked about how white men had no toes and comparaed amadi a white man when he was a leper.

predictions. okonkwo will have to settle on a bride price for his daughter that he wants to be his son. the guilt of killing ikemefuna will end up killing okonkwo.

ch 9

okonkwo is finally getting over the guilt of killing ikemefuna. talk about the mosquito in his ear. his wife comes and says that ezinma is dying and he goes to them. they retell the story of ezinmas iyi-uwa and how they were trying to find it. she didnt want to give it up at first but then eventually the medicine man got her to tell them where it was and they found it. she hadnt been ill since. they all thought that ekewfi was over reacting and okonkwo makes the medicine pot. talk about how ekewfi had ten children born but all died.

predictions- ezinma will die. this is karma for killin ikemefuna and beating his wife during the week of peace. okonkwo will go crazy with rage at his daughters death and end up doing something worse.

ch 10

summary- the egwugwu come out of the hut to start the first court case that we have seen. all of the women step back in fear. two sides of the story are presented to the egwugwu. okonkwo plays the second egwugwu. case is about a man beating his wife to much and wifes family takes her away. threaten to de-man him for what he's done. egwugwu go back to discuss and make their decision like a jury. say that they want him to beg for her back with gifts. second court case comes up.

predictions- the man will beat his wife again and okonkwo will have to carry out the task of de-manning him. okonkwo might be put on trial for beating his wives.

ch 11

summary- idigo makes good snuff and is currently ill. ekwefi told the story about how the tortoise has a cracked shell because he wanted to feast with the birds but tricked them and he payed for it in the end. chielo comes and takes ezinma to the hills and caves. ekwefi follows to defend her daughter from the gods. they arrive at the cave and okonkwo is already there waiting for them. ekwefi thinks about when she ran away from her first husband and thinks about okonkwo

predictions- nothing really happens to ezinma. okonkwo will rush into the cave to stop chielo from hurting his prized daughter. might talk about how ekwefi and okonkwo were married and what all happened with that.

progress- someones cow got out of the pen and ate someones crops. the person responsible needed to be punished and okonkwos daughter was returned to the compound by chielo

ch.12 summary- obierka's daughters uri happened. talk about how the cow got lose and that the man responsible had to be punished. ogbuefi ezigma gave a speech at the wedding. started to go home but stopped at villages along the way like a procession.

predictions- the newly weds will have problems. the man with the cow will be punished.

ch 13

summary- zeudu is dead because of age. he had achieved three out of the four clan titles. he was to be branded. okonkwos gun exploded and killed ezuedus 16 year old son. he was to be banished from the clan for seven years for committing a womans crime. he travled to his home land mbanta with his family.

predictions- hometown wont welcome him back. ezuedu's family will try to kill okonkwo.

ch14.

summary- okonkwo arrives at motherland. he has to completely start over and has no passion for his work anymore. they hold a ceremony to re-unite two people into marriage. they take to okonkwo about how he doesnt know anything and how he isnt suffuring as much as other people.

prediction- okonkwo will get kicked out of this clan to.

ch 15.

summary- obierka and two others came to mbanta. they told of the white man arriving in ambene. three more white men shot up the market and killed ambene. unchendu says killing a man who says nothing is immoral. obierka sold okonkwos land and gave him the money for it. foreshadowing of okonkwo killing himself.

predicition- okonkwo will end up killing himself. his farmland in umofia will be stolen or taken over by obierka.more white men will come to the land.

progress- pg 121. talk about how there will be more whiteman. nwoye ends up joining the white men and deny's his tie to his father. they start to talk about how this happened where he left the family to join the missionaries. talk about the iron horses. the white mans interpreture messes up what the white man is saying.

ch. 16

summary- the white man shows up and try's to convert them into christians. talk about how their gods arent real and that they are just wood and stone. nwoye starts to listen and ends up joining with missionaries. goes around denouncing his ties to his father. they also suggest that more white men are coming.

predictions- more white men will come. nwoye and okonkwo will fight and one will die.

ch. 17

summary- gave the missionaries a plot in the evil forest to build their church. they thought they would die after four days but they didnt. white men started to build up their plot and the people kept saying they were going to die. someone tells okonkwo about nwoye and he goes after him threatening to kill him if he doesnt change. nwoye leaves and never comes back. nwoye wants to convert his entire family to christianity.

predicitons. some of onkonkwos family will convert over. okonkwo will try to kill the people that converted.

ch 18

summary- someone kills a python. they blame it on a christian convert. okoli is the supposed killer of the snake. okonkwo says that this is a woman village and that this wouldnt be happening in his homeland. they exile the converts from the clan and wont let them get water or clay anymore. fight is starting to brew.

predictions- huge fight will break out between the clan and the christians with okonkwo leading the way. will end up burning down the church.,

ch. 19

summary- have a huge feast in order to "say goodbye" before okonkwo and his family return home after the exile. they have to return home during the dry season which will make it harder to grow crops. they talk about how the younger people in the clan are week becaise they dont share that similar bond with one another and that is why the new religion has set in and people are converting.

Ch 20

summary- when okonkwo had returned home his possesions had been "filled in" okonkwos crops started to grow faster and better and had more of them. okonkwo wants enzinma to marry in umofia. more people joined the white missionaries. white mans government is beginning to be set up with a court. aneto was hanged and his land was taken over by the white men.

predictions- okonkwo gets in a fight about his land and gets thrown in prison. ezinma might marry a white missionary and be kicked out of the family.

ch 21

summary- talked about how the white men were making umofia richer with the trading stores and schools. enoch was the rebel who was accused of eating the sacred python. mr. brown argued with someone about who's religion is better and they both kinda sounded the same just different names. Mr. brown started a school and made a hospital. nwoye going to college to become a teacher. okonkwo says that the village has become soft.

predictions- nwoye might return to try and teach the village.

ch. 22

summary- Mr brown is gown and now mr. smith has come to take his place. thought the evil was black so the people were evil. enoch takes off the mask of one of the egwugwu and kills the ancestral spirit. this starts a religious war. the egwugwu burn down his compound and then go after the church. Mr. smith tries to stop them but fails.

prediction- mr. smith was killed inside the church. the white men will come and destroy the clan like they did to abame.

ch 23

summary- district commisioner calls the six leaders to a meeting to discuss what happened. tricked them and locked them up. said they had to pay 200 bags of cowries in order to be released. messengers shaved their heads and beat them. they secretly raised it so that they could get 50 bags for themselves. the village agreed to pay them.

predictions- when okonkwo gets out he will go after the white men and will get others to join him.

ch. 24

summary- the prisoners were set free. the next day they called a meeting to decide what they were going to do. they were talking about how they would have to kill some of their brothers, the ones who had converted. in the end the white man had tried to stop the meeting and okonkwo killed a messenger.

predicitons. okonkwo will be killed by the other messengers. okonkwo will hang himself from the pressure

ch. 25

summary- the white men came to get okonkwo. the clan lead them to okonkwo's hanged body and asked them to take him down for them because they cant touch him. (custom). the white men will take him down and burry him for them.

predictions- sequal.

writing prompts.

1) faith is more important then family

2) always stand up for what you believe in

3) stand up for your family

4) dont impose your beliefs on others

5) dont abandon your family.

6) respect thy father

7) dont try to control other peoples beliefs

8) fear is the greatest motivator

9) killing a man that says nothing is immoral

10) emotion is weakness