TFA: 2

At the beggining of the second chapter a gong is rung to signal a meeting. The meeting is to discuss a woman who was murdered by another village in the market. Okonkwo has to go to the other tribe to tell them that they owe the man whose wife was killed. He was chosen to do so because he is the fiercest warrior of the village. They owe him a virgin woman to be his wife, and they owe him a young boy. If they do not provide this man with these then the two villages will go into war with each other, but that doesn't happen.
Also because Okonkwo is so wealthy, he can support a big family of three wives and eight children. He is extremely harsh on his one son, who he thinks is lazy. He not only yells at him a lot, he also beats him.

TFA: 1

In the first chapter I thought it was a little hard to keep the characters straight, because they are so different from the names we have here. Now that Okonkwo beat the Cat in the wrestling contest I think that everyone will look at him different. The Cat has been unbeaten for seven years, so obviously this was an amazing accomplishment. Before, I think that everyone thought less of him because his father was completely different. His father, Unoka, got queasy at the sight of blood. He also wasn't good with money, he has a lot of debts to pay of. I also thought it was weird how Okonkwo was not upset at all about his fathers death.