What kind of action happened in chapter 5 of things fall apart?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Okonkwo supports three wives and eight children. He despises weakness and beats his children and wives.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

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