things fall apart quotes part 2

Okonkwo - gun

‘Okonkwo’s gun had exploded and a piece of iron had pierced the boy’s heart.’

Okonkwo - kill messenger

‘The bitterness in his heart was now mixed with a kind of child-like excitement.’

Okonkwo - other men

‘Okonkwo knew how to kill a man’s spirit.’

Okonkwo - less successful men

‘Okonkwo’s brusqueness in dealing with less successful men.’

Okonkwo - week of peace

‘In his anger he had forgotten it was the week of peace.’

Ikemefuna - folk tales

'[they] were told with a new freshness and the local flavour of another clan.’

Ikemefuna - broken water pot

‘Ikemefuna looked at them sternly and they held their peace.’

Ikemefuna - going home to mother

‘Ikemefuna felt like a child once more. It must be the thought of going home to his mother.’

Okonkwo - sleep after Ikemefuna

‘He did not sleep at night. He tried not to think about Ikemefuna, but the more he tried the more he thought about him.’

Nwoye - tears

‘Nwoye overheard it and burst into tears, whereupon his father beat him heavily.’ (when Ikemefuna was going home)

Nwoye - father

‘I don’t know. He is not my father.’

Ezinma - moods

‘As long as they lasted, she could bear no other person than her father.’

Christians - exclusion

‘The adherents of the new faith were thenceforth excluded from the life and privileges of the clan.’

Ani

‘Ani played a greater part in the life of the people than any other deity.’

Nneka

‘The name ‘Nneka’ meaning ‘Mother is supreme’

Death - swelling

‘When a man was afflicted with swelling in the stomach and the limbs he was not allowed to die in the house.’

Chielo - different

‘It was a different woman - the priestess of Agbala, the Oracle of the HIils and Caves’

Chielo - humanity

'Chielo's voice rose again in her possessed chanting, and Ekwefi recoiled, because there was no humanity there.'

Chielo - not a woman

‘Chielo was not a woman that night’

Motherhood - beating

‘But when a father beats his child, it seeks sympathy in it’s mothers hut’

Motherland - refuge

‘But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland’

Nwoye - converts others

‘He would return later to his mother and his brothers and sisters and convert them to the new faith.’