English Literature - Paper 2 Quotes: Things Fall Apart and Beloved

Things Fall Apart - Tradition vs Change: On Ibo Culture

"Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten" ().

Things Fall Apart - Tradition vs Change and Masculinity: On repentance

"Inwardly, [Okonkwo] was repentant. But he was not the man to go about telling his neighbors that he was in error”

Things Fall Apart - Tradition vs Change: On Ibo Culture

"Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten" ().

Things Fall Apart - Tradition vs Change and Masculinity: On repentance

"Inwardly, [Okonkwo] was repentant. But he was not the man to go about telling his neighbors that he was in error”

Things Fall Apart - Tradition vs Change: On Achievement

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings".

Things Fall Apart - Tradition vs Change: On colonisation

"We were amused at [the white man’s] foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers."

Things Fall Apart - Masculinity: On War

“[Okonkwo] was not afraid of war. He was a man of action, a man of war”

Things Fall Apart - Masculinity: On controlling his family

"No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children... he was not really a man."

Beloved - Change: On escaping the past

"No more running—from nothing. I will never run from another thing on this earth." (Ch. 23)

Beloved - Change: On self love

"Suddenly she saw her hands and thought with a clarity as simple as it was dazzling that she had never seen them before." (Ch. 26)

Beloved - Change: On memory

"They forgot her like a bad dream."

Beloved - Masculinity: On being together

"He wants to put his story next to hers."

Beloved - Masculinity: On freedom

"He would rub his feet together, the one that had been chained with the one that hadn't to remind himself that way."

Beloved - Masculinity: On loving too hard

"Your love is too thick.