[Music] foreign Things Fall Apart by chinua akibi Okonkwo the main character is a wealthy and respected Warrior among the umuofia clan although Okonkwo has risen the ranks in his lower Nigerian tribe he is haunted by the Deeds of his father who was cowardly and irresponsible and left many debts in the village in his wake this was a great motivator for Okonkwo who in response has become a klansman warrior farmer and family provider however the laziness of his 12 year old son nuoye concerns him and he fears he may end up like his father one day the tribe receives a 15 year old boy it came a funa who Okonkwo begins training Okonkwo is drawn to the young boy who he sees as an ideal son and Ike mifuna is grateful for his tutelage ikimifuna begins to call Okonkwo father but Okonkwo maintains a professional relationship without affection during the week of Peace Okonkwo severely beats his youngest wife ojugo for negligence breaking the sacred peace tradition he makes sacrifices as repentance but the damage to his reputation is irreparable akima funa stays with okonkwo's family for three years and nuoye begins to look up to him as an older brother developing a more masculine attitude that pleases Okonkwo one day the Locust flowers come to umuofia something that only happens every other generation and the village excitedly collects and eats them [Music] agbo EFI as you do a respected Village Elder telso conquo that the Oracle said ikimifuna must be killed but Okonkwo should not be involved because of their close relationship Okonkwo returns home and tells akimifuna that he will return him to his home Village as he begins walking through the village several men attack and it came ifuna runs to Okonkwo for help Okonkwo not wanting to look weak in front of his tribe kills ikimifuna as he runs towards him Okonkwo returns home and woye realizes his friend is dead and begins to cry Okonkwo himself enters a depression as he begins to come out of his depression his daughter Falls ill but she recovers after Okonkwo gathers leaves for medicine Okonkwo hears about his death by the sound of equity a musical instrument played in the village Okonkwo feels guilty because agboefie told him not to partake in Nikki mifuna's death at agboefie's funeral okonkwo's gun mistakenly fires and kills on botha's 16 year old son okonkwo's family is sentenced to seven years of exile for committing a crime against the Earth goddess Okonkwo gathers his most valuable items and heads to his mother's natal Village Banta he and his family are received warmly by his uncle and other family they help him build new huts and start a yam Farm okonkwo's friend obierica selzo conquo's yams in the village and brings the calories used as currency back to him obierica also tells him that another Village has been destroyed by the white man not too long later six missionaries traveled to umbanta the leader Mr Brown tells them through a translator that their gods are false and there is only one true God but the villages struggle to accept the idea of the Holy Trinity as one God Mr Brown grows ill and Reverend James Smith takes his place Reverend Smith does not restrict his followers the way Mr Brown had in response Enoch unmasks an iGoogle during an annual ceremony an act akin to killing a spirit the next day Enoch's house is burnt and the reverend's church is burnt to the ground District committee is upset by the burning of the church and orders the leaders of umuofia to meet with him once they are gathered he handcuffs them and throws them in jail eventually the prisoners are released and the five Court Messengers meet with the klansmen expecting to start an uprising Okonkwo kills their leader with a machete however everyone lets the other five Messengers get away and Okonkwo realizes they aren't willing to go to war Okonkwo hangs himself the next day and when the commissioner finds his body he tells them suicide is a grave sin and orders nobody to touch his body he then States okonkwo's story will make for a great book titled the pacification of the Primitive tribes and that's it please like And subscribe to support the channel