things fall apart
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- changes in umofia
- it changed from a tribal warrior clan to a christian clan who were divided and conquered by the white mans colonization
- palm wine
- wine the villagers drank
- obgange
- evil child who died and then was reborn
- mr kiaga
- in charge of church in umofia after the white man left; interpreter
- chinua achebe
- author of book
- machete
- okonkwo used it to kill ikemefuna and the messenger
- government
- white men brought it with religion
- bicycle
- the iron horse
- unoka
- unsucessful debt laden father
- ezinmas iya uwa
- its what allowed her and her mother to escape from the endless cycle of ogbange.
- nwoye
- okonkwos son who converted to christianity
- okonkwo
- saw that things were falling apart
- oracle
- consulted before decisions were made by the clan
- obierika
- cautioned okonkwo not to kill ikemefuna
- okonkwo
- main character. Greatest fear was weakness; embodied by his father. Killed Ikemefuna and a messenger. Eventually kills himself by hanging.
- 7
- number of years in exile
- mr smith
- didnt compromise and accommodate
- chukwu
- major god of villagers
- ezeudus funeral
- frenzied, had men dancing and drums being beat. Okonkwos gun exploded when he fired and pierced ezeudus sons heart.
- mr brown
- discussed religion with akunna
- ezeudu
- relatives cleansed okonkwo's land
- cowries
- shells used for money
- wrestling
- sport enjoyed by visitors
- despair
- what okonkwo felt when he went into exile
- yams
- symbol of prosperity and manliness;staple crop of villagers
- chielo
- took ezinma to oracles cave
- hanged
- okonkwos method of suicide
- python
- sacred animal
- church in mbanta
- founded in evil forest, all expected to die but didnt. First pastor was mr. brown, he was tolerable but mr smith was not he changed everything. The church took in the osu; outcasts. Has okonkwos son in it, grew larger as years went on.
- ekwefi
- many of her children died in infancy
- ezinma
- okonkwos favorite child; thought she should be a boy
- okonkwos home
- umofia
- kola
- nuts offered in hospitality
- uchendu
- okonkwos mothers relative
- egwugwu
- ancestral spirit masqueraders
- father
- what ikemefuna called okonkwo
- enoch
- unmasked an egwugwu
- ikemefuna
- a boy given to okonkwo as compensation for one of their woman being killed in a neighbor city, was eventually killed by clansmen the last blow was deliverd by okonkwo; called him father.
- obi
- traditional village hut