Discuss the type of language that Achbe uses to describe the fight and how this might add to the importance of this scene.

In this chapter Achebe points out another aspect of Igbo culture that colonialist Europe tended to ignore: the existence of subcultures within a given African population. Each clan has its own stories, and Ikemefuna is an exciting addition to Umuofia because he brings with him new and unfamiliar folk tales.