Things Fall Apart–Characters and their Traits:

Characters and their Traits:

Okonkwo- MC

Ezinma- Okonkwo’s daughter, wishes she was a boy, has the iba(fever) and ogbanje(evil spirit), finds her iyi-uwa(stone)

__Ekwef__i- Okonkwo’s 2nd wife and Ezinma's mother

Nwoye/isaac- Okonkwo’s first son, converts to christianity, is seen by Okonkwo as lazy

Obierika- Okonkwo’s friend who keeps his yam seeds while he is in exile; visits him in exile to inform him of the Europeans coming

Chielo- priestess of Agbala

Uchendu- Okonkwo’s uncle; his mother’s brother

Nwoye's mother- first wife of Okonkwo

Ikemefuna- Okonkwo’s adopted son sent to him; sent as a punishment of his father’s actions; Okonkwo ends up killing him because the oracle says so and to show his “strength”

Egwugwu- 9 masked spirits

Ojiugo: third wife of Okonkwo

Mgbafo- women who left her abusive husband; from the trial in chapter 10

Ezeudu: oldest man in village

Nwakibie: wealthy man in village, Okonkwo worked for him to earn first seed yams

Nneka- first women convert; she can now keep her twins

Reverend Smith- second leader that came and beat them

Mr. Brown-The first missionary of Umuofia, liked by the people. He became sick and had to go back to his land.

Mr. Kiaga-The missionary at Mbanta

District commissioner

Amikwu-Eldest son of Uchendu

Njide-Eldest daughter of Uchendu

Enoch- killed an ancestral spirit

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