Who is Ojiugo in Things Fall Apart?
Ojiugo is Okonkwo 's third wife and also the youngest. As it is in a patriarchal society, the wives have to respect their husbands and follow their instructions. It is also customary that the youngest (or last) wife stands at the bottom of the hierarchy. She is supposed to be dutiful...
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and respectful towards the elder (or first) wives and has to honour their authority - there is, of course, mutual respect between the wives, although disagreements might occur from time to time. In such instances, the intervention of the elder wife is needed to settle a dispute, before the husband is consulted, if at all.
Ojiugo, being the most junior spouse, therefore has a lower rank than the elder wives. Because of her youth, she will be more inclined to neglect her duties since she is 'still learning the ropes', as it were, although she must have received guidance from her own mother, as well as the elder wives, about the duties of a good wife. It is this which leads her to have her hair braided during The Week of Peace instead of performing her wifely tasks, such as cooking. During this week, calm descends on the village and men relax, leaving their wives to complete their domestic chores.
It is forbidden for anyone in the village to indulge in any violent acts during this period, but Okonkwo, enraged by Ojiugo's actions, strikes her. This act is extremely disrespectful within the context of their culture, specifically at this time, and is one of the reasons that Okonkwo is later banished to his mother's village, Mbanta.
Who is Ojungo in Things Fall Apart?
I think you might mean Ojiugo instead of Ojungo; as far as I know, there is no character named Ojungo in the book. The main character in the narrative, Okonkwo, has three wives, and Ojiugo is the youngest.
Ojiugo appears in Chapter 4 of Things Fall Apart. It is the Week of Peace, and Ojiugo, by her thoughtlessness, provokes Okonkwo to anger, thereby causing him to transgress upon the sacredness of the Week, which requires that no harsh words be spoken between individuals. Ojiugo goes to a friend's house to plait her hair, and does not return in time to fulfill her duty to prepare the afternoon meal for Okonkwo. When Ojiugo returns, Okonkwo beats her "very heavily," forgetting that by doing so, he is desecrating the holiness of the Week of Peace, and may bring down upon his whole clan the ire of the earth goddess. Okonkwo must be punished to appease the goddess, lest she cause the crops to be poor and ruins them all. In reparation for his act, Okonkwo is required to bring to the shrine of Ani an offering of "one she-goat, one hen, a length of cloth and a hundred cowries."
Okonkwo brings the offerings as ordered, but although he is inwardly repentant, he does not allow himself to show humility before the tribe, because he fears being looked upon as weak. The elders of the tribe comment that the punishment for breaking the Week of Peace has become very lenient; in the past, a man who broke the peace was dragged through the village until he died, but that practice was stopped because it violated the very peace it was meant to preserve (Chapter 4).