Ch. 13-15 Foreshadow

Okonkwo had a really hard time when he had to leave his clan to go to another village. The village woke up with the sound that a man was dead. This was important to all of them and so they had to gathered in order to give proper ritual to the death. Unfortunately, someone else died at the same time--the dead man's son. Okonkwo's gun exploded and it pierced the boy's heart. When someone from the village killed someone else, they were said to have seven years of bad luck if they stayed in the village, so whoever was responsible had to flee to another village. This is exactly what happened to Okonkwo. "The only course open to Okonkwo was to flee from the clan. It was a crime against the earth goddess to kill a clansman, and a man who committed it must flee from the land... Okonkwo had committed the female, because it had been inadvertent. He coul return to the clan after seven years" (124). Is no surprise that this could happened to him because killing someone is a crime.

Okonkwo went to find shelter in his motherland, where he and his family were welcomed by his old uncle named Uchendu. The next paragraph talks about how the rain finally came, "It was sudden and tremendous...And then came the clap of thunder. It was an angry, metallic and thirsty clap, unlike the deep and liquid rumbling of the rainy season "(130). I instantly took this as foreshadowing a bad event that would soon happen. This is because of the way the rain was described as "sudden and tremendous," which could mean that no one was waiting for it to be that bad. Also, the word "unlike" is very important because it could mean that whatever was going to happened, has never been seen before or experienced by any of the villagers. We then get the story of the albino that came to the villages and was killed. This story is extremely important because it is telling the readers what will happen. "They were locust...he was sent to explore the terrain" (139). People were coming to invade their village.