Things Fall Apart: Chapter 8 Flashcards

Okonkwo sinks into a depression. He feels weak, and he cannot sleep or eat.

When Ezinma brings him his evening meal three days later, she tells him that he must finish everything.

He repeatedly wishes that she were a boy, and he berates himself for acting like a 'shivering old woman.'

<p>Obierika</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He congratulates Maduka on his successful wrestling.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He requests that Okonkwo stay when his daughter's suitor arrives to determine a bride-price.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Okonkwo complains to Obierika that his sons are not manly enough and says that he would be happier if Ezinma were a boy because she has 'the right spirit.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He and Obierika argue over whether it was right of Okonkwo to partake in Ikemefuna's death.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He decides that his unhappiness was a product of his idleness.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Someone arrives to report the death of the oldest man in a neighboring village.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Strangely, the old man's wife died shortly thereafter.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Okonkwo questions the man's reputed strength once he learns how attached he had been to his wife.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Afterward, Obierika and his future son-in-law's relatives talk about the differing customs in other villages.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Obierika speaks of a particularly ridiculous story he heard: far away, tribes have been visited with white skin.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>Those who know Amadi, a leper, laugh—the polite term for leprosy is 'the white skin.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He complains that their tribe dictates that men who take the ozo title are no longer able to climb palm trees.</p> Signup and view all the answers