Part 2 is about Okonkwo's exile to the land of his mother. In Ch. 15, we finally hear of a white man's appearance in the Abame tribe, their reaction to him, and other white men's subsequent destruction of the Abame tribe. Please write about what you think of this. What happened here? Why did the Abame tribe react so violently against the white man? Was their destruction a fair price to pay for this? Why or why not?
What happened is that a white man stopped by the village on a bicycle and spooked the villagers. I think that the Abame tribe's violent reaction to the white man was done out of fear, seeing that it was a poor and seemingly rash decision (and also because the man said nothing to them). The oracle in the village had also said that more men would follow that one, so the villagers probably just wanted to rid themselves of the possible danger without time for discussing the consequences. A while later, more white men came and wiped out almost the whole village. This action is justified because the villagers were showing hostility towards the men, whether they were afraid or not. Just because they were scared by the outsider doesn't mean they had to kill him, and there were many other ways that the villagers could've dealt with that situation. I think that the retaliation of the white men was a fair price to pay for the unkindness that the Abame people showed them.
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