Obierika tells him it is too late for that, since many of their people have joined the Christians. Okonkwo does not understand how his people lost the power to fight. The prisoners are beaten and made into slaves.
THINGS FALL APART CHAPTER SUMMARY FULL
They guard the prison full of men who have broken the white man’s law for instance, throwing away twins. The messengers are hated and called kotma, or, wearing khaki shorts. The whites use native court messengers to bring in people to trial. The worst is that the white men brought a government with a District Commissioner who judged cases. Even men of title like Oguefi Ugonna were cutting their anklets and joining the church. Okonkwo wants the prestige of having two beautiful marriageable daughters when he returns. He asks her to explain to Obiageli why, and she does. He is more fortunate in his daughters, and Ezinma has grown up to be beautiful and sought after, but she bends to her father’s wishes to wait till the return to Umuofia to marry. He announced to them the disowning of Nwoye. But he had five more sons whom he called together.
These plans became embittered with the loss of his first son to the Christians. He was determined to make up lost time by building a bigger compound, taking new wives, and initiating his sons into the ozo society. He had lost the time to gain the highest titles. He knows he has lost his place among the masked spirits of justice, and his chance to lead a war against the new religion. Part Three opens with Okonkwo’s return to Umuofia. It gives us the last glimpse of Igbo unity before the deluge to come. They thank Okonkwo for this moment of unity in the face of the divisive new religion. The elders speak of the strength of the clan and how it is more important than anything else. Here is another of the great feasts in the old style that call the clan together. The elders lament that the young no longer know what it is to speak with one voice. The elders say, “We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so” (Ch. He has a feast to thank his mother’s people, and it is lavish as befits a great man. There is a rainbow in the sky, and the people call it the python in the sky. Okonkwo sends Obierika the money to rebuild his huts in his old compound, and as soon as the rains stop, he prepares to return. He called his first daughter born in exile Nneka (Mother is Supreme), but he called his first son in exile Nwofia (Begotten in the Wilderness) He has prospered in his motherland but feels he would have prospered more in Umuofia, and he has regretted every day of exile. It is nearing the end of Okonkwo’s exile.
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