Chapter 15

After staying a lot of days at okonkwo`s motherland, Oberikua decides to visit him with a special purpose. He brings a several bunch of cowries because  he wanted to give him all the money he gained during selling his yams. he also bring bad news, he said the village named Abame was distroyed. It seems that a white men with an iron horse came to the village, everyone didnt know what to do, so they came to ask the Oracle what should they do. The Oracle said that the white man would be followed by others, who would destruct Abame. The villagers obeyed the Oracle and killed the white man and also tied his iron horse, that ended up being a bycicle, yo their sacred tree so the could prevent it from getting away and telling the white man`s friends. A few weeks later, the white men saw the catastrophe of his friend. They decide to take revenge and destroy almost everything in the Abame village. 

After hearing this unfortunate event, Uchendu asked Oberika what did the man said before they killed him.Oberika replies that he said noting, or nothing that they understand. Uchendu said that Abame was foolish for killing a man who said nothing. Okonkwo agrees that the villagers were fools, but he believes that a better idea would have been to prepare and arm themselves d. They had heard stories about white men coming with guns and strong drinks and taking slaves away across the sea, but they never believed these stroies. Uchendu rapidly wanted to teack somethng to his sons, he told a story about the mother kite and a bird, the metaphore of this story was: "never kill a mon who says nothing" this means that if someone dos not say anything, then something is wrong. And if someone complains then it may be right to do something in response. Also "there is nothing to fear from someone who shouts", this means people who shout in protest are less likely to be men of action.  

Summary taken from the book "Things Fall Apart. "