Chapter Seven

Okay, in chapter seven, it is three years later, after Ikemefuna had arrived at Okonkwo’s home. Okonkwo has noticed the good that Ikemefuna has done for Okonkwo’s son, Nwoye. He has change drastically from boy to man, all because of Ikemefuna. The boys now sit with Okonkwo in his obi and they listen to their father’s “masculine” tales. Also, it is the year of the locus, they come in in swarms that turn they sky black. Every one is excited because locusts are considered to be a delicacy because the only come once a life time.
Then there is a turn for the worst, the council people of the town come and tell Okonkwo that they have decided to kill Ikemefuna, and don’t want Okonkwo to have any thing to do with it. So a few days later, they tell Ikemefuna that he is going to go to his original home, and take him and Okonkwo out into the forest. Ikemefuna knows something is not right, so one of the times that he turns around looking for Okonkwo, the guy behind him takes a swing at him. Ikemefuna runs to Okonkwo, who end up killing him because of HIS PRIDE again. He has to live with that picture of Ikemefuna’s last minutes in his life forever, which would be hard the way it happened in the novel. His pride is really getting to me; it is called being a self-centered jerk, just because it normally is a reaction that takes place that is cruel towards others to keep his pride, just like everything else!