Characters
This is the name of Okonkwo's second wife.
Who is Ekwefi?
Okonkwo kills this character despite advice not to participate.
Who is Ikemefuna?
Okonkwo acting as a judge in the trial about domestic abuse is an example of this literary device.
What is irony?
This is a popular sport among the Igbo.
What is wrestling?
"Do what you are told, woman."
Who is Okonkwo?
This is the name of Okonkwo's father.
Who is Unoka?
Okonkwo treats Nwoye poorly for this reason.
What is seeing him as weak / unmanly?
When Okonkwo tries to shoot his wife. ("He had an old rusty gun...But although Okonkwo was a great man whose prowess was universally acknowledged, he was not a hunter.")
What is foreshadowing?
These are the animals in the story that Ekwefi tells her children.
What are tortoises and birds?
"Can you tell me why it is that one of the commonest names we give our children is Nkeka, or 'Mother is Supreme'? . . . when there is sorrow and bitterness [a man] finds refuge in his motherland."
Who is Uchendu (Okonkwo's uncle)?
This is the name of the priestess, who takes Ezinma to the cave.
Who is Chielo?
Okonkwo does this to the messenger at the end of the book.
"Yam, the king of crops, was a man's crop."
What is personification?
This is the name of the ceremonial nut that people break apart to eat at gatherings.
What is a kola nut?
"He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger."
Who is the District Commissioner?
This is the name of the original missionary who comes to Umuofia and converts Nwoye.
Who is Mr. Kiaga?
After Nwoye converts to Christianity, Okonkwo does this to him.
What is chokes him / beats him?
The locusts that appear in Part 1 are an example of this literary device.
What is symbolism?
This is the word for one's "personal god" - or the luck/fortune that rules their life.
What is chi?
"He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”
Who is Obierika?
Who is Enoch?
Okonkwo breaks the rules during this Week by beating his youngest wife.
What is The Week of Peace?
"[Okonkwo] was a flaming fire. How then could have have begotten a son like Nwoye, degenerate and effeminate? . . . Living fire begts cold, impotent ash."
What is a metaphor?
This is the name of the Igbo's Supreme god.
Who is Chukwu?
"The boy calls you father. Do not bear a hand in his death."
Who is Ezeudu?