Things Fall Apart: Chapter 23

The town is now on high alert because of the church being burned. The villagers have been arming themselves with guns and machetes preparing for the worst. They are fearing that the white people may strike back with force and they did. The Commissioner requests the leaders, including Okonkwo, of the village to talk to him about the burning of the church. The leaders accept to talk but they take their machetes. Just as soon as they put them down, a group of soldiers arrests them and they are thrown in jail. Where they are beaten. The town is required to pay 250 bags of cowries for the burned church and to set free their leaders. After talking about it the tribe desicdes to pay the fine. I think that this was a very bad move for the white people. I believe that this could ignite dormant warriors in the tribesman. Even though in the end the whites would be victorious, I think they would suffer some casualties. Either that or the tribe will back down. Well it looks like I am just going to have to keep reading and find out what happens.