How Long Has Ikemefuna Been With the Family Who Decides His Fate
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Things Autumn Apart Part 1 Reading Questions
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Chapters 1 & 2 • What accomplishments have helped to make Okonkwo a dandy man of the village? • Compare and contrast Okonkwo with his male parent, Unoka. Why do you think Okonkwo feels as he does toward his father? • Okonkwo is a wealthy man and a noble. What are the signs of his wealth? • How doe the men of Umofia decide what to do about the murder of a woman from their association? What role practice the women of Umofia have in the decision? • According to Achebe, what emotion dominates Okonkwo's life? What is the source of this emotion? • Achebe tells us, "Among the Ibo . . . proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten." This statement itself is a proverb. How do you interpret it?
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Chapters 3 & 4 • Why does Unoka consult the Oracle? What does the Oracle tell him? • What is the Week of Peace? What does Okonkwo do to suspension it and what action does the clan take? • Who is Nwoye and how does Okonkwo treat him? Depict the relationship between Nwoye and Ikemefuna. • Okonkwo'southward first year as a farmer is difficult. How is the difficulty due to Okonkwo's family history and how was it due to nature? • In a sentence or two, explicate the concept of chi. What is the meaning of the proverb, "When a man says yeah his chi says yes also?" What does Okonkwo ways when he says he challenged his chi?
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Chapters 5 & 6 • When is the Festival of the New Yam held? Explain Okonkwo'southward reaction to the festival? • What causes Okonkwo to shoot at Ekwefi? What does this say about Okonkwo? • What is an ilo? How is it used during the Festival? • How exercise the Ibo treat the winner of the final wresting lucifer? Why are the winners so revered? • When Obiageli broke the pot, how did Okonkwo react and how did you expect him to react? How practice you business relationship for any discrepancies?
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Chapters 7 & 8 • How long has Ikemefuna been with the family? Who decides his fate? What does Ezeudu tell Okonkwo nigh this conclusion? • In your opinion, did Ikemefuna know what was about to happen? What do Okonkwo'due south actions reveal well-nigh him? • How does Okonkwo feel about his daughter Ezinma? Why? • Describe the scene between Okonkwo and Obierika. List ii things you learn about Ibo culture from this scene and 2 things most the characters. • Clarify Okonkwo's idea of masculinity? Do you call back Okonkwo'southward ideas of masculinity are typical of Ibo social club, or are they extreme? • At the end of the discussion among Okonkwo and his friends, what major historical upshot is foreshadowed? What peculiar conventionalities nigh white people is expressed?
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Chapters nine & ten • Why does Ekwefi take a bitter attitude about life? Describe her human relationship with Ezinma. What does Okonkwo exercise to help Ezinma? • An ogbanje is a changeling, a child who repeatedly dies and returns. How can humans defeat an obanje's wickedness? What exercise these behavior reveal about Ibo order? • Who are the judges in the legal case in Chapter 10, and how do they comport? Practise y'all feel the judges decision is fair? • In your stance, exercise the people of Umuofia know what is behind the egwugwu masks or not? Discover textual evidence to support your answer?
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Chapter 11 • Achebe devotes several pages to Ekwefi's folktale. Why do you remember he chose to include the tale? • Chielo, the priestess, interrupts the story-telling. What announcement does she make? Where does she take Ezinma? Why do you think the Oracle called for Ezinma? • How does Okonkwo react when the priestess commencement makes her announcement? What deportment does he have later and what practice they bear witness almost his grapheme?
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Capacity 12 & thirteen • What does the priestess do with Ezinma later on emerging from the cave? • What joyous ceremony takes place the 24-hour interval after the return from the cave? While preparing for ceremony, what do the men of Umuofia talk over at the market and what does this discussion show about them? • What sorrowful news does the drum announce? • What terrible accident occurs at the funeral and what happens to Okonkwo'south family equally a consequence? • In your stance, why did Achebe cull to end Part Ane the way he did? What aspects of the funeral ceremony brand information technology possible for dangerous accidents to occur? How is this accident related to the infiltration of Western applied science into a traditional culture?
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