Things Fall Apart

Achebe builds up to Ikemefuna's death from pages fifty-four to fifty-eight by various key word and sentences, foreshadowing something to do with death is going to happen therefore we are in a“strange” way prepared for what is going to happen.
Achebe tells us “Umofia has decided to kill him” he directly tells us that they want to murder Ikemefuna. He also asks Okonkwo not to get involved withmurder of Ikemefuna; he is scared Okonkwo can stop the murder because Ikemefuna calls him father and he also teats him as a son, also it could be to protect Okonkwo from killing his favourite son againsthis will. We know this because Ogbuefi Ezeudu mentions twice that “That boy calls you father.” And that he is one of Okokwo’s friends.
The next day they tell Ikemefuna they are going to take himback home, but Nwoye hears this and “bursts into tears” this can suggest two things of both one is that it could be that Nwoye realises that they are going to kill Ikemefuna or that he is far too closeto Ikemefuna and does not want him to go home and not come back, but either way he would not come back. Ikemefuna is also suspicious and “somehow he knew he was not going back to see them (his mom andsister)” so he feels he is not coming back home and Ikemefuna also associates this situation with when he was in his real home in Mbaino and some men started talking to his father and the brought himto Umuofia. Another of the details that builds up a deathly environment is when Nwoye tells his mom what he heard and she says “Poor child” she most probably figured out what was going to happen andtherefore know he is not going back to his village or back home and has no escape.
The day they come to pick up Ikemefuna and when he is gone in Okonkwo’s compound “a deathly silence descended” theadverb deathly creates a vague impact on the reader because it emphasis in the death and makes the reader lose hope on the life of Ikemefuna.)
“The men of Umofia talked and laughed… about some...