Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart

how would you describe the mood at the opening of chapter 2? what textual evidence is given to support that mood

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The mood at the start of the second chapter is one of alarm and worry. A meeting is signaled for morning, and the crier had a note of tragedy in his voice.

Okonkwo had just blown out the palm-oil lamp and stretched himself on his bamboo bed when he heard the ogene of the town crier piercing the still night air. Gome, gome, gome, gome, boomed the hollow metal. Then the crier gave his message, and at the end of it beat his instrument again. And this was the message. Every man of Umuofia was asked to gather at the market place tomorrow morning. Okonkwo wondered what was amiss, for he knew certainly that something was amiss. He had discerned a clear overtone of tragedy in the crier's voice, and even now he could still hear it as it grew dimmer and dimmer in the distance.

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