The crime!

        The day of the crime I was helping my big brother with all of the work needed at my mothers huts, my brother was away from the village fighting in a war against another village. I was working way harder than I usually did with my work because my mother has promised me a special reward for finishing all of my jobs within a few hours, I always finish my jobs but I usually don't get done until late at night because I am a slow worker. This time my brother was back at home helping so it made me like my work more than usual because it was nice just to work with him and be able to talk with him. Later that after noon we had finished all of the jobs we had been assigned and we were on our way back to mother when there was loud screaming from all over the village. It had sounded like we were being invaded and our people were all being murdered. It turns out there was a man who was from our village who had slaughtered an innocent women from Umuofia, the man was very popular among the village and nobody thought he would do such a thing. I returned home with my big brother to find my mother weeping at our dinner table with several men comforting her. She saw us come in and my brother ran over to her asking what was wrong, the biggest man came over to me and asked me if I was Ikemefuna. When I told him that I was in fact I boy he was looking for he grabbed my hands and pulled me out the door. My big brother ran out trying to stop them and the other men pulled him back. They had forced me to black out, when I awoke I was in another mans bed with a woman sitting next to me. She was one of the wives of a man named Okonkwo and she was taking care of me until I awoke. I was devastated because I knew I would never see my mother or my big brother ever again. I refused to eat and slacked off on the work they had me do. The only good that came out of this was I made a new friend. It was another child of Okonkwo's, he was named Nwoye. After a few days I adjusted to this new lifestyle with my new family and began to eat and work again. Okonkwo soon began to favor me which made me feel a lot more comfortable with his family.