<Li> Ogbuefi Ezeudu is one of the elders of Umuofia . He is regarded as very wise, and gives Okonkwo good advice . At Ezeudu's funeral, Okonkwo's gun misfires, accidentally killing the dead elder's son, for which Okonkwo and his family go into exile . </Li> <Ul> <Li> Mr. Brown is a white man who comes to Umuofia . Unlike many white people, he is kind and caring to all the villagers . Sadly, he got sick and died . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Mr. Brown is a white man who comes to Umuofia . Unlike many white people, he is kind and caring to all the villagers . Sadly, he got sick and died . </Li> <P> Most of the story takes place in the village of Umuofia, located west of the actual city of Onitsha, on the east bank of the Niger River in Nigeria . The events of the novel unfold in the 1890s . The culture depicted, that of the Igbo people, is similar to that of Achebe's birthplace of Ogidi, where Igbo - speaking people lived together in groups of independent villages ruled by titled elders . The customs described in the novel mirror those of the actual Onitsha people, who lived near Ogidi, and with whom Achebe was familiar . </P>

Significance of chapter one in things fall apart