Consequences

No matter what you do, karma will always come. There are always consequences to be faced. 


Okonkwo, once again, is stripped to his emotions for what he is left with is his feelings. After burning the church, and leaving the Christian colonizers in some sort of humiliation, the District Commissioner returns from his trips and finds basic chaos. He demands to see the leaders of the clan to discuss these happenings. Most of the leaders weren’t in agreement with ‘church burning’ decision and most people knew that, but not Okonkwo, he was proud of the destruction of the building because it represented strength and what we can name as some kind of an ‘Igbo come back.’ Once the District Commissioner had gotten all the participants of the meeting to cooperate when putting down their machetes and discussing the matters, the DC had them all hand cuffed and sent to jail. 


In jail the beatings were hard and revenge, or at least physical revenge, on behalf of the Europeans was not easy to bear. Onkonkwo here is left with nothing but his bare soul and his internal spirit and what the Igbos call chi.