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Andy Wells, Aaron Malmberg, Joey Wendelberger, Emily Hennig, Sarah Stotler

=PART ONE=

Day 1: Page seven Summary: The okonkwo was telling about his father. His father was in debt and a failure. Talked some about his life. Okoye shows Unoka his debt on the wall. Unoka died and Okonkwo inherts ikemefuma. Predictions: Unoka is going to be killed because he isnt a high rank and in so much debt. Ikemefuma is going to be bad luck.

Day 2: Page 13 Summary: a war was almost started but they sacrificed Ikemefuna and now Okonkwo is his caretaker. Predictions: Ikemefuna will cause okonkow to be lazy. Nwoye will turn out to be like unoka.

Day 3: Page 25 Summary: Okonwko asked for yams from Nwakiebxie and got 800 yam-seeds. The first set of yams died from the drought and the second set died from too much water. Predictions: Nwakieie will be angry and Okonkwo and will also be understanding.

Day 4: Summary: Okonkwo broke his own palm kernels and people believed that a spirit broke them instead. Ikemefuna was in Nwoye's care. He made himself sick because he didn't eat and wanted to be with his family. Predictions: The village will find out that it was Okonkwo who broke the kernels, not his spirit.

Day 5: Summary Ch 4: First wife: Nwoye's Mother, Second Wife: Ekewfi, Third Wife: Ojiugo; Okonkwo was very fond of Ikemefuna and Ikemefuna though of Okonkwo as his father. Ojiugo was late for a meal during the Week of Peace and Okonkwo went against the gods and beat his wife. The town was stunned because they couldn't remember the last time this happened in the past. Okonkwo got very mad at Nwoye when he incorrectly broke a yam seed and he told him if he did it again he would break his jaw. We though yams symbolized power because Okonkwo though so much about them.

Summary Ch 5: Feast of the Yam was a huge deal and they invited his inlaws from the surrounding three villages. There was an abundance of food. Okonwko didn't like feasts; he just wanted everyone to go home. On the second day of the feast, there was a wrestling match which Ekwefi loved. Ekwefi was one of Okonkwo's favorites.

Summary Ch 6: The contest began with fifteen and sixteen year old boys who weren't wrestlers, they merely set the scene. They danced in a circle an dpicked who they wanted to fight. The last match is between the leaders of the teams. Ikezue and Okafo are rivals and fight similar to each other. Okafo won. Prediction: Okonkwo will have to wrestle the winner, Okafo.

Day 6: Summary Ch 7: Many men from Okonkwo's village take Ikemefuna on a "walk" to take him back to his home village. However this is not the true reason for the "walk" they take him on this walk to kill Ikemefuna. The original plan was for Okonkwo not to kill him, but in the end Okonkwo does kill him for fear of being called weak. Prediction: Okonkwo will become depressed for killing Ikemefuna, and will bad luck will fall upon the village and have a locust festival.

Summary Ch 8: Okonkwo did not eat for two days after killing Ikemefuna and did not sleep. Then he wished that Ezinma was a boy, and wished that Nwoye was more like Ikemefuna than Unoka. Ogbuefi Ndulue and his wife died and they didn't bang the gong. Akueke was sold for 20 cowers. Prediction: Okonkwo will beat Nwoye because he is to feminine.

Day 7: Summary Ch 9: Ezinma had a fever and thought she was dying. Ekwefi had ten kids and nine of them died in infancy. The medicine man mutilated the ogbanje with a razor so that it would come back. Ezinma buried her iyi-uwa by the orange tree and okonkwo and okajbue dug until they found the shiney rock. Then they tried to sweat the fever out of the her. Prediction: Ezinma will die and it will be Karma for killing Ikemefuna.

Summary Ch 10: The Evil Forest is the leader of the egwugwu and he represents the village of Umuera. The spirit always addresses humans as bodies. Uzowulu beat his wife until she misscarrages, which there was a trial about. Prediction: Uzowulu will get his wife back and will beat her. Ezinma will die, but Emily doesn't think that.

Day 8: Summary Ch 11: Ekwefi told the story of the torties, that used the birds to get into the sky and than ate all the food. Than he fell out of the sky and broke his shell. The medicine man put it back together and that is how why the tortoise has the bumby shell. Then agbala wanted to see ezinma and ekwefi followed them to the village and okonkwo was at the cave when they got there. Prediction: Ohielo is going to come out of the cafe and see ekwafi and then get mad because they followed him.

Summary Ch 12: celebrating oberikas early daughters uri- wedding. He was going to give a fat goat to the inlaws. The inlaws brought 50 pots of wine. Predictions: They are going to mess with okonkwo.

Summary Ch 13: Ezeudu is dead. He was the oldest man in his villiage. At his funeral, his done was killed by Okonkwo. Okonkowos gun exploded and a piece of iron pierced Edeudu's sons heart. Okonkwo was banned from his clan for seven years for killing a clansman. The morning that he left, Ezeudu's people killed Okonkwos animals, burned his hut, and destroyed his barn. Predictions: The guilt from killing Ezeudu's son and Ikemefuna will get to Okonkwo and he will kill himself.

=PART TWO=

Summary Ch 14: Okonwkos uncle greeted him in Mbanta. Amikwu is Uchendus youngest son. Uchendue's eldes daughter, Njide, came from Obodo. Uchendu slit the hens throat. Mother is supreme - Nneka (most common name given to children). A man belongs to his fatherland when things are good. A man belongs to his motherland when there is sorrow. Uchedu had six wives and twenty two children, all of which are dead. Predictions: His motherland's clan will finally accept them into the clan and Aaron will stop smoking.

Summary Ch 15: Two years after Okonkwo was exiled, Obierika brought coweries. The oracle said that white men were on their way. Clan killed the white man and tied his iron horse to a silk cotton tree. White men in Amabe killed almost everyone in the market. Obierika sold Okonkwos yams and gave him money for them. In return, Obierika wants Okonkwo to kill his sons or himself (joke). Predictions: Okonkwo will assemble an army and kill the white people. He is going down his father's path and is going to be in a lot of debt.

Summary Ch 16: Nwoye doesn't consider Okonkwo his father. White Man was going to give them iron horses and told them that there is only one god and that their gods were harmless. Nwoye was interested in the white man's teaching. Predictions: Nwoye will converst to Christianity

Summary Ch 17: The missionaries asked for a plot of land to build their church and they gave them the Evil Forest by Uchendu. Mr. Kiaga asked them to worship every seven days. Nneka was the first women to join the church. Nwoye left his father and joined the faith. He wanted to go back evenutally and convert his mom and siblings. Okonkwo though that Nwoye waasnt worth fighting for. Predictions: Nyowe will be a huge part in the new church

Summary Ch 18: Outcasts entered the church and were forced to cut their hair. Python is sacred animal called our father. Okonkwo hates femininity. Mr. Brown is the white missionary. When women went to gather materials for Easter, they came back beaten and banned from the village. Okoli died because of the gods. Predictions: More outcasts will join the chruch.

Summary Ch 19: Okonkwos last harvest in Mbanta; he regretted every day of exile. Last year he sent money to Obierka to build him nuts. Ekwefi provided the cassava. Obiageli called Ezinima salt becasue she didnt like water. Okonkwo threw a feast to show gratitude. Predictions: His old tribe will still be mad at him and ban him.

=PART THREE=

Summary Ch 20: Okonkwo disowned Nwoye as a son. He still wished Ezinma was a girl. She grew up to become on of the most beautiful girls in Mbanta and they didnt marry because Okonkwo wanted real men for them. The missionaries brought government and prison. They called court messengers ash buttocks. Predictions: Ezinma is going to get married.

Summary Ch 21: People are starting to be curious about the church. Enoch was difficult to restrain and his fafther was the priest of snake cult. Enoch killed the sacred python and ate it. Mr. Brown got a carved elephant tusk which is a sign of dignity and rank. Chukwu is their god. Mr. Brown built school and small hospital. Akunna is talking to Mr. Brown about religion. His school had quick results and he got sick and left. No one took special notice to Okonkwo return. Okonkwo thought the men had turned soft like women. Nwoye's new name is Isaac and he is at a training college to be a teacher in Umuru. Predictions: Mr. Brown is going to die and Okonkwo is going to freak out at everyone.

Summary Ch 22: Mr. Brown's successor was Revrend James Smith. He saw things in black and white, and black was evil. Enoch unmasked the egwugwu and killed an ancestral spirit. Sprits planned to overflow the church. Ajofia was leading egwugwu of Umofia and he was the head spokesman. okeke is the interpreter. Umofia liked Mr. Brown but not Mr. Smith. They burnt down the church.

Summary Ch 23: Every man in Umofia carried a gun or machete because they didnt want to end up like Abame. Okonkwo was one of the six leaders invited to go to the DC's office and couldnt bring guns. When the DC left, he barber shaved their heads and they weren't given food for days. Umofia was told that they needed to pay 250 bags of cowries for the leaders. The messenger added the 50 for himself. Ezinima came back from her future husbands clan when she found out that Okonkwo was taken. Predictions: The white men will kill all of the leaders.

Summary Ch 24: Okonkwo and the other prisinors were released as soon as the fine was payed. They returned to umuofia where they decided to have a meeting in the market the next morning. Everyone was in attendence and okonkwo wants there to be a war and disliked Egonwanne. A messenger came and okonkwo chopped off his head which made the people upset and wondering way he did that. Predictions: Okonkwo will be exiled or the people of umoufia will kill him.

Summary Ch 25: The DC arrived at Okonkwo's obi searching for Okonkwo but he was not there. They found Okonkwo's body dangling from a tree. They asked the DC to bring him down because it was against their culture.

Prompts:
 * 1) People are afraid of changes
 * 2) the strongest people can also be the weakest
 * 3) One person can ruin it for everyone
 * 4) Acting on impulse will only make things worse
 * 5) Wisdom comes with age
 * 6) Women care more about family then men do
 * 7) Mentake women for granted
 * 8) Changing tradition will cause conflict
 * 9) Marrying the right person is important
 * 10) Women are expected to be proper.