Well, it is all over now. Okonkwo killed the head messenger who came to break up the meeting and nobody backed him up. that really surprised me because the meeting was about going to war anyway. these guys are cowards and weaklings. turn the other cheek my foot, an eye for an eye. Bring the old testament into play here. Make the book more interesting anyway.
Whatever, the chapter was about Okonkwo regretting that his tribe had no worthy men left. He remembered old battles and old heros. I think he expected everyone to rise up with him against the english. Boy was he surprised and let down.
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I like your opening line:
"Well, it is all over now. Okonkwo killed the head messenger who came to break up the meeting and nobody backed him up."
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That pretty much sums it up for Okonkwo. His fate is sealed! Nobody will go to bat for him, and he is left as the odd man out. Thought some talked the talk of war, Okonkwo is a man of action.
You mention how he remembers the old ways, and how there are no worthy warriors left anymore...
I think that is the crux of the novel. Their tribe has truly "fallen apart."
He is doomed,
Mr. Farrell
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