ize the New Yam Harvest Festival? At the other extreme, he has bad dreams about being dishonored together with his god. As the story proceeds, Ezeulu feels more and more alienated from his community. They do not support him, and they do not even admit that he was right when they get bad effects from their headstrong actions. They go against Ezeulu's advice, and things go bad, but they still insist that they were right and he was wrong. Worst of all, Nwaka does not even get a belly ache after he sends the young men to the other village to announce the war for the piece of farmland. In reaction, Ezeulu claims a special vision for himself and talks about sacrificing Oduche to the white man. At the same time, he feels a "haughty indifference" to the clan, which turns into a desire for revenge. When Nwaka speaks, the people listen to his talk of war. They are afraid to go against him. But they do not listen to Ezeulu. They are not afraid of him, and they will not stand beside him, even if they think he is right. He thinks that he knows the truth about the land dispute, but he knows only the facts. The truth is deeper, that the white men will give the land to Okperi, and the white men have guns and soldiers. Ezeulu's son Obika walks through the night, sometimes singing and sometimes speaking. His "voice rose louder and louder into the night air as he approached home. Even his whistling carried farther than some men's voices." Some day, Ezeulu hopes that his son's voice will speak for the god. But this is not going to happen. All of the old man's dreams will die, while the culture of his people dies all around him. The white man is too powerful, and they cannot stand up against the Christian missionaries and the British soldiers. They are doomed.His older son, Edogo, carves the mask. He sits in a dark hut, surrounded by "older masks and other regalia of ancestral spirits, some of them older than even his father. They pro...
