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Things Fall Apart. Chapter 15 Notes. 1. Visit from a Friend. The next season, Okonkwo’s friend Obierika comes to visit Okonkwo in exile. He brings the money from the sale of Okonkwo’s property and yams. 2. Bad News. Obierika brings news:
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Things Fall Apart Chapter 15 Notes
1. Visit from a Friend The next season, Okonkwo’s friend Obierika comes to visit Okonkwo in exile. He brings the money from the sale of Okonkwo’s property and yams.
2. Bad News Obierika brings news: The village of Abame has been wiped out, massacred by a group of white in retaliation for the villagers’ killing of a white man.
3. Locusts Like the locusts in Chapter Seven, the white men first arrived in a small party that seemed harmless, even beneficial. Then a large horde of them arrived bringing mass destruction.
4. Out of the Past The men recall the stories of slavers who came and captured Africans to be sold into slavery in Europe and the Americas.
5. Odd Request Okonkwo asks Obierka how he can repay his friend’s stewardship. Obierka replies that Okonkwo can kill either one of his sons or himself.
6. Foreshadowing This is significant because, while Obieraka is not serious, it calls to mind Okonkwo’s role in Ikemefuna’s death and foreshadows future events.