Fill in the gap: "The band of egwugwu moved like a furious ＿＿＿＿＿ to Enoch's compound" The narrator, Chapter 22

Answer: "The band of egwugwu moved like a furious whirlwind to Enoch's compound"

Fill in the gap: "This was a ＿＿＿＿＿ clan, he thought" The narrator, Chapter 18

Answer: "This was a womanly clan, he thought"

Fill in the gap: "He had been cast out of his clan like a ＿＿＿＿＿ onto a dry, sandy beach, panting" The narrator, Chapter 14

Answer: "He had been cast out of his clan like a fish onto a dry, sandy beach, panting"

Fill in the gap: "It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his ＿＿＿＿＿" The narrator, Chapter 2

Answer: "It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father "

Key quote: "...the strange man would break their clan and spread destruction among them" Obierika, Chapter 15

Analysis The Oracle's warning that the strangers will "break" the clan presents colonialism as the violent breaking apart of Igbo culture .

Key quote: "He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart" Obierika, Chapter 21

Analysis The metaphor of a "knife" shows how colonialism has cut the community apart. "Fallen apart" echoes the novel's title and the collapse of Igbo bonds.

Key quote: "He was a wealthy farmer and had two barns full of yams, and had just married his third wife" The narrator, Chapter 1

Analysis The list of yams, barns and wives sets out what success means in Igbo culture. It introduces Okonkwo through the markers of a patriarchal society.

Key quote: "Nwoye knew that it was right to be masculine and to be violent, but somehow he still preferred the stories that his mother used to tell" The narrator, Chapter 7

Analysis The contrast between violence and his mother's stories shows Nwoye rejecting his father's values. Okonkwo's harsh masculinity drives his son away.

Key quote: "He had a bad chi or personal god, and evil fortune followed him to the grave, or rather to his death, for he had no grave" The narrator, Chapter 3

Analysis Unoka's "bad chi" foreshadows the fate Okonkwo will share with the father he despises. It raises the theme of fate versus free will .

Key quote: "I will not have a son who cannot hold up his head in the gathering of the clan. I would sooner strangle him with my own hands" Okonkwo, Chapter 4

Analysis Okonkwo's violent hyperbole shows how his fear of weakness poisons his family bonds . It foreshadows his killing of Ikemefuna and the loss of Nwoye.

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Things Fall Apart (Edexcel IGCSE English Literature): Flashcards

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Fill in the gap: "The band of egwugwu moved like a furious ＿＿＿＿＿ to Enoch's compound"
The narrator, Chapter 22

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Fill in the gap: "The band of egwugwu moved like a furious ＿＿＿＿＿ to Enoch's compound"
The narrator, Chapter 22
Answer: "The band of egwugwu moved like a furious whirlwind to Enoch's compound"
Fill in the gap: "This was a ＿＿＿＿＿ clan, he thought"
The narrator, Chapter 18
Answer: "This was a womanly clan, he thought"
Fill in the gap: "He had been cast out of his clan like a ＿＿＿＿＿ onto a dry, sandy beach, panting"
The narrator, Chapter 14
Answer: "He had been cast out of his clan like a fish onto a dry, sandy beach, panting"
Fill in the gap: "It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his ＿＿＿＿＿"
The narrator, Chapter 2
Answer: "It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father"
Key quote: "...the strange man would break their clan and spread destruction among them"
Obierika, Chapter 15
Analysis
The Oracle's warning that the strangers will "break" the clan presents colonialism as the violent breaking apart of Igbo culture.
Key quote: "He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart"
Obierika, Chapter 21
Analysis
The metaphor of a "knife" shows how colonialism has cut the community apart. "Fallen apart" echoes the novel's title and the collapse of Igbo bonds.
Key quote: "He was a wealthy farmer and had two barns full of yams, and had just married his third wife"
The narrator, Chapter 1
Analysis
The list of yams, barns and wives sets out what success means in Igbo culture. It introduces Okonkwo through the markers of a patriarchal society.
Key quote: "Nwoye knew that it was right to be masculine and to be violent, but somehow he still preferred the stories that his mother used to tell"
The narrator, Chapter 7
Analysis
The contrast between violence and his mother's stories shows Nwoye rejecting his father's values. Okonkwo's harsh masculinity drives his son away.
Key quote: "He had a bad chi or personal god, and evil fortune followed him to the grave, or rather to his death, for he had no grave"
The narrator, Chapter 3
Analysis
Unoka's "bad chi" foreshadows the fate Okonkwo will share with the father he despises. It raises the theme of fate versus free will.
Key quote: "I will not have a son who cannot hold up his head in the gathering of the clan. I would sooner strangle him with my own hands"
Okonkwo, Chapter 4
Analysis
Okonkwo's violent hyperbole shows how his fear of weakness poisons his family bonds. It foreshadows his killing of Ikemefuna and the loss of Nwoye.

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