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by BlastRoom
Review the full novel through plot, character, custom, quotation, and theme.
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Four moments: Ikemefuna is killed, Okonkwo's gun kills Ezeudu's son, Enoch unmasks an egwugwu, Okonkwo kills a court messenger. Which comes second?
Why does Mbaino send a young man and a virgin to Umuofia at the start of the novel's main action?
What event first makes Okonkwo famous throughout the nine villages?
Why does young Okonkwo ask Nwakibie for seed yams?
After the accidental shooting at Ezeudu's funeral, what happens to Okonkwo's compound in Umuofia?
In Mbanta, the clan gives the missionaries land in the Evil Forest. What happens next?
What directly provokes the egwugwu to burn the church in Umuofia?
After the six leaders are released from the District Commissioner's prison, what do they attend in Umuofia?
What shows Okonkwo that Umuofia will not rise with him after he kills the court messenger?
Which chain best traces Nwoye's break from his father?
Which event belongs in Part Two of the novel?
Unoka takes no titles and leaves debts; Okonkwo works fiercely, hates idleness, and seeks honor. What does this pairing explain?
Why is Obierika an important foil to Okonkwo?
How does Ikemefuna affect Nwoye before Ikemefuna's death?
Okonkwo often thinks Ezinma should have been a boy. What does that reveal?
Ekwefi follows Chielo through the night when the priestess carries Ezinma away. What does this action show most clearly?
What does Uchendu do for Okonkwo in Mbanta?
Why does Okonkwo reject Nwoye after Nwoye converts?
What makes Ikemefuna's relationship with Okonkwo tragic?
What offense does Okonkwo commit during the Week of Peace?
What is the Feast of the New Yam mainly connected to in Umuofia?
The egwugwu hear Uzowulu and Mgbafo's marriage dispute while everyone knows the masks are village men. What does this arrangement show?
In Umuofia, what do yam farming and titles most strongly signal about a man?
What does the bride-price negotiation with sticks and palm wine show about marriage custom?
What role does the Oracle of the Hills and the Caves play in Ikemefuna's fate?
Why do visits in the novel so often include kola nut and proverbs?
The search for Ezinma's iyi-uwa belongs to which belief system in the novel?
Okonkwo fires a gun at Ekwefi during the New Yam festival. What theme does this moment sharpen?
Okonkwo joins in killing Ikemefuna even after Ezeudu warns him not to. What motive drives him?
Nwoye is drawn to the missionaries' hymn and message after being troubled by abandoned twins and Ikemefuna's death. What theme does this develop?
Uchendu's lesson that the motherland shelters a person in sorrow challenges which part of Okonkwo's worldview?
When Okonkwo returns from exile, why does Umuofia disappoint him?
Obierika wonders why a man should suffer for an accidental killing and later sees the clan divided. What does his questioning suggest?
Why is Okonkwo's death a tragic ending rather than a victory over the colonizers?
Okonkwo imagines himself as fire and Nwoye as ash. What irony does that image create?
What happens to Abame after its people kill the first white man who arrives on an iron horse?
Why do Mbanta's elders give the missionaries land in the Evil Forest?
Mr. Kiaga accepts osu converts into the church. What colonial-era effect does this have?
Which description best fits Mr. Brown's approach in Umuofia?
What is important about the debate between Akunna and Mr. Brown?
How does Reverend Smith differ from Mr. Brown?
What do the court messengers and the District Commissioner's court represent in the novel?
At the end, the District Commissioner imagines reducing Okonkwo's story to a paragraph in his book. What is Achebe criticizing?
The narrator says, 'Proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.' What does the metaphor mean?
The novel opens, 'Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond.' What does this first sentence establish?
The title Things Fall Apart echoes an allusion to a center that cannot hold. Which part of the novel most directly fits that idea?
Obierika says the white man 'has put a knife on the things that held us together.' What does this image explain?
The proverb 'When a man says yes, his chi says yes also' is used to explain what idea about Okonkwo's rise?
What does the lizard proverb about praising itself after jumping from the iroko tree reveal about Okonkwo?
The narrator says Okonkwo 'had no patience with unsuccessful men.' Which character does that judgment most clearly point back to?
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Chinua Achebe and the Colonial Encounter
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