Chapter 19

Finally Okonkwo's exile is over. He holds a feast of thanks for all of his family. He acts like he is deeply thankful but he really is unhappy that he wasted the chance to gain status and influence in his own clan and wasted time with a womanly clan. This just deepens my dislike for him because he is so ungrateful to his family for basically accepting him when no one else was going to for 7 whole years. Everyone at the feast seems to be so happy to have met Okonkwo and two men praise him greatly. One problem is in Umuofia's near future. THat is the loss of some of its youth to Christianity. Many young people are leaving tradition and most importantly their families in order to pursue worshiping God. This chapter did two things for me. It made me hate Okonkwo just that much more and it validated even more my theory that Umuofia is going to be in pretty deep trouble in the future as a result of them giving the Christians land. Even though it was in the Evil Forest.