Chapter 17: The missionaries request a piece of land on which to build a church. The village leaders and others offer them a piece of the Evil Forest hoping they will not take it considering it is a big part of them, but they didn't care. The elders are tsurprised that they rejoice over the offer. They are sure that the spirits in the Evil Forest will kill the ministry within a number of days. However nothing happens. The church also wins their first three converts. So what it looks like to me is that maybe the spirits of the Evil Forest don't think that the white missionary putting the church there was such a bad thing. Overtime the church starts to win more and more converts including a pregnant woman. Other people are also starting to notice that Nwoye is hanging around with the christian people. They inform Okonkwo about Nwoye being with the christians. When he returned he choked Nwoye yelling at him. He was very disturbed that Nwoye had converted to Christianity.