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Many actions happen in Chapter 5 of Things Fall Apart.

  • Approaching of the Feast
  • Giving thanks to Ani
  • Playing a part in people's lives
  • Judging of morality and conduct
  • Communion with departed fathers of the clan
  • Feast of the New Yam
  • Eating of yams
  • Looking forward to the New Yam festival
  • Disposal of old yams
  • Beginning of new year with tasty fresh yams
  • Washing of pots, calabashes, wooden bowls, wooden mortar
  • Pounding of yam in mortar.
  • Cooking of Yam foo-foo and vegetable soup
  • Eating of yam foo-foo and vegetable soup
  • Inviting of friends and relatives from neighbouring villages
  • Telling of a story of a wealthy man
  • Setting of large mound of foo-foo
  • Sitting on one side of a mound of foo-foo
  • Arriving of in-law to a meal
  • Exchange of greetings
  • Shaking of hands
  • Inviting of large number of guest from far and wide
  • Okonkwo asking his wives' relations to a feast
  • Making a fairly big crowd
  • Other people besides Okonkwo becoming enthusiastic over the feast
  • Drinking of gourds of palm-wine
  • Getting uncomfortable while sitting and waiting
  • Scrubbing of walls of huts with red earth
  • Drawing of patterns on the huts in white, yellow, and dark green
  • Painting of selves with cam wood
  • Drawing black patterns on stomachs and backs
  • Decoration of children
  • Shaving of children's hair in beautiful patterns
  • Talking excitedly about relations who had been invited
  • Reveling in thoughts of being spoiled
  • Observing of New Yam Festival by Ikemefuna in Umuofia
  • Mbaino becoming remote and vague in Ikemefuna's imagination
  • Burst of storm (metaphorically)
  • Okonkwo walking around
  • Okonkwo finding an outlet for his suppressed anger
  • Asking of "Who killed this banana tree?"
  • Hush falling on the compound
  • Cutting of leaves from banana tree
  • Ekwefi answering Okonkwo
  • Okonkwo giving Ekwefi a sound beating
  • Ekwefi weeping
  • Ezinma weeping
  • Other wives pleading with Okonkwo
  • Okonkwo satisfied
  • Okonkwo deciding to go hunting
  • Okonkwo calling Ikemefuna to get his gun
  • Ekwefi murmuring about guns that neve shot
  • Okonkwo hearing Ekwefi
  • Okonkwo running into his room
  • Okonkwo running out of his room
  • Okonkwo aiming gun aat Ekwefi
  • Ekwefi clambering over dwarf wall of barn
  • Okonkwo shooting the gun
  • Children and wives wailing
  • Okonkwo throwing down the gun
  • Okonkwo jumping into barn
  • Ekwefi lying in barn
  • Okonkwo heaving a heavy sigh
  • Okonkwo going away with the gun
  • Celebration of New Yam Festival
  • Offering of new yam and palm-oil to ancestors
  • Asking ancestors for protection
  • Day wearing on
  • In-laws arriving
  • Bringing of pots of palm-wine
  • Eating and drinking till night
  • In-laws leaving for their homes
  • Giving of pleasure to Ekwefi

FLASHBACK

  • Winning of Ekwefi's heart
  • Okonkwo throwing Amalinze the cat
  • Ekwefi running away from her husband
  • Loving of Wrestling contests
  • Sitting near the fireplace
  • Killing of fowl
  • Water boiling
  • Lifting pot from fire
  • Pouring boiling water
  • Putting pot on pad
  • Looking at Palms
  • Surprising of Ezinma, by the lifting of the pot with bare hands.
  • Ezinma referring to her mother Ekwefi by name
  • Ezinma asking if fire does not burn people who are grown up
  • Ekwefi replying "Yes" to her daughter
  • Nwoye's mother dropping pot of hot soup
  • Ekwefi turning hen in mortar
  • Ekwefi plucking feathers
  • Ezinma plucking feathers
  • Ezinma's eye twitching
  • Ezinma working out that her mother means a wrestling match
  • Ekwefi pulling on the horny beak
  • Ekwefi turning on a stool
  • Putting a beak in a fire
  • Ekwefi pulling the horny beak off
  • Nwoye's mother calling Ekwefi
  • Ekwefi answering Nwoye's mother "Is that me?"
  • Nwoye's mother asking for fire from Ezinma.
  • Ekwefi putting coals into broken pot
  • Ezinma carrying pot to Nwoye's mother
  • Nwoye's mother thanking Ezinma for the coals
  • Ezinma offering to make a fire for Nwoye's mother
  • Nwoye's mother thanking Ezinma again calling her "Ezigbo," or "the good one."
  • Ezinma going outside
  • Ezinma bringing sticks
  • Ezinma breaking sticks with her foot
  • Ezinma building a fire
  • Ezinma blowing the fire
  • Nwoye's mother telling Ezinma to use a fan
  • Getting of the fan
  • Nannygoat eating yam peelings
  • Nannygoat stealing yam
  • Nwoye's mother swearing at nannygoat
  • Ezinma peeling yams
  • Ezinma fanning fire
  • Nwoye's mother thanking Ezinma again
  • Ezinma returning to Ekwefi's hut
  • Beating of drums
  • Clearing of Okonkwo's throat
  • Okonkwo moving his beat to the drums
  • Okonkwo filling with fire, desire to conquer and subdue
  • Okonkwo trembling
  • Okonkwo bringing out yams for afternoon
  • Nwoye's mother cooking
  • Ezinma running to barn
  • Ezinma bringing back 2 yams
  • Ekwefi peeling yams
  • Ekwefi cutting yams
  • Ekwefi preparing a pottage using chicken
  • Hearing of Obiageli weeping
  • Obiageli weeping
  • Ikemefuna coming with pot
  • Nwoye coming with pot
  • Nwoye's two younger brothers following Nwoye
  • Obiageli following rest of them
  • Obiageli's mother asking what happened
  • Obiageli saying she broke her pot
  • Obiageli's mother consoling her
  • Obiageli's mother telling Obiageli she will be bought another pot
  • Ikemefuna staring at the two younger brothers
  • Obiageli making inyanga
  • Obiageli balancing pot on head
  • Obiageli folding arms across her chest
  • Obiageli swaying waist like a grown-up lady
  • Pot falling down
  • Obiageli laughing
  • Drums throbbing
  • Ekwefi ladling pottage into a bowl
  • Covering of pottage
  • Ezinma presenting food to Okonkwo
  • Okonkwo sitting on goatskin
  • Okonkwo eating first wife's meal
  • Obiageli bringing food to Okonkwo
  • Obiageli sitting on floor
  • Ezinma placing dish to Okonkwo
  • Ezinma sitting with Obiageli
  • Okonkwo shouting at Okonkwo
  • Ezinma asking Okonkwo about wrestling
  • Okonkwo answering, asking Ezinma if she will see wrestling
  • Obiageli telling her father not to speak while eating
  • Okonkwo acknowledging Obiageli
  • Okonkwo praising Obiageli while verbally attacking Ezinma
  • Okonkwo eating Ekwefi's meal
  • Obiageli taking dish
  • Obiageli returning to her mother's hut
  • Nkechi coming in
  • Nkechi bringing in third dish
  • Drums continuing to beat.
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Okonkwo supports three wives and eight children. He despises weakness and beats his children and wives.

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The only real consistent rising action of things fall apart comes near the end when the villagers begin to act against the Christians and burn down their church.

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Arguably, this would be when Okonkwo kills the court messenger but the villagers do not back him up instead letting the other messengers escape.

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Ekeudu was buried. It is not explicit, but it is implied.

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