Chapter 22

Well it looks like I was completely wrong in predicting that the two communities can live together. I was WAY off. Of course a strict mean man replaced Mr. Brown and of course tensions grew and were unbearable when a zealous convert, Enoch, dared to unveil an egwugwu. Everyone in the village was made at him for this and the egwugwu burn his compound down the day after. As a result of the actions of Enoch, the egwugwus confront Reverand James Smith in front of the church and wish to burn the church down to rid the village of Enoch's sin. Reverand Smith says that he will stand his ground, but his words were changed by the interpreter to make them not sound so offensive and save him from possible punishment. Turns out it didn't really matter what he said because the egwugwus burnt down the church anyway. Gee it looks like things are going just GREAT. I really think now that this will be the end of one of the communities because this is just a little out of hand and I have the feeling a holy war is going to break out and some people are gonna get slaughtered. At least the tribe isn't wimpy anymore which is good news for Okonkwo but maybe a war will break out and Okonkwo will die or something like that.