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Classify the conflicts Okonkwo faces in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart across all four types.
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In Things Fall Apart, Achebe writes of Okonkwo: "It was not external but lay deep within himself. It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father." Which conflict type does this show?
At a kindred meeting in Things Fall Apart, a man with no titles contradicts Okonkwo. Without looking at him, Okonkwo says, "This meeting is for men." Which conflict type does this moment show?
Achebe describes Okonkwo's worst farming year: "The blazing sun returned, more fierce than it had ever been known, and scorched all the green that had appeared with the rains." Which conflict type does this show?
Okonkwo beats his youngest wife during the Week of Peace. Ezeani, priest of the earth goddess, tells him, "The evil you have done can ruin the whole clan." Which conflict type does this show?
Achebe writes: "Dazed with fear, Okonkwo drew his machete and cut him down. He was afraid of being thought weak." Which conflict type does the second sentence reveal in Okonkwo?
Told that Nwoye has joined the Christians, Okonkwo grips his son by the neck, roars "Answer me, before I kill you!" and beats him with a heavy stick. Which conflict type does this scene show?
Okonkwo's gun explodes at Ezeudu's funeral and kills a boy. Achebe writes that killing a clansman was a crime against the earth goddess, and the man who did it had to flee the land. Which conflict type does this show?
After Ikemefuna's death Okonkwo asks himself, "When did you become a shivering old woman, you, who are known in all the nine villages for your valor in war?" Which conflict type does this show?
In Things Fall Apart, the District Commissioner invites six leaders of Umuofia to a meeting, then has them handcuffed and jailed under a new system of law the clan never agreed to. Which conflict type does this show?
Back in Umuofia after seven years, Okonkwo "mourned for the clan, which he saw breaking up and falling apart, and he mourned for the warlike men of Umuofia, who had so unaccountably become soft like women." Which conflict type does this show?
Okonkwo's first year of farming runs two conflicts at once: he owes Nwakibie eight hundred seed-yams, and the weather turns from drought to flood. Which conflict does the ruined harvest bring to a head?
Okonkwo kills the head messenger. He then hears the crowd break into tumult instead of action and knows that Umuofia will not go to war. Which conflict type does this moment reveal?
Achebe writes of Okonkwo's first harvest: "But the year had gone mad. Rain fell as it had never fallen before... and washed away the yam heaps." Which conflict type does this show?
In Things Fall Apart, Ogbuefi Ezeudu visits Okonkwo before Ikemefuna is killed. Which line establishes Okonkwo's conflict over the boy rather than following from it?
Achebe describes the year Okonkwo took eight hundred seed-yams from Nwakibie. Which line establishes his conflict with the natural world rather than reporting its result?
Obierika tells Okonkwo how the clan lost its unity. Which line marks where the conflict with the new religion began, rather than describing its result?
In Things Fall Apart, Nwoye first hears the missionaries in Mbanta. Which line establishes his coming break with his father rather than following from it?
Two conflicts run to the end of Things Fall Apart: Okonkwo against the colonial order, and Okonkwo against his own dread of being thought weak. After he takes his own life, which one goes on without him?
When Nwoye joins the church, two conflicts run at once: Okonkwo against his son, and Okonkwo against the new religion in Mbanta. Which one ends when Nwoye walks away for good?
Things Fall Apart opens with the young Okonkwo throwing Amalinze the Cat, a wrestler unbeaten for seven years, while the drums beat and the spectators held their breath. Which conflict type does this contest show?
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Things Fall Apart: Sociocultural Context
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