12/29/2023 0 Comments All things fall apart book“No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.” ~Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Chapter 4, Pages 33, 34 The personal dynamism required to counter the forces of these extremes of weather would be far too great for the human frame.” He could not stop the rain now, just as he would not attempt to start it in the heart of the dry season, without serious danger to his own health. “And now the rains had really come, so heavy and persistent that even the village rain-maker no longer claimed to be able to intervene. but after a while this custom was stopped because it spoiled the peace which it was meant to preserve.” “My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who broke the peace was dragged on the ground through the village until he died. “Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan. “To show affection was a sign of weakness the only thing worth demonstrating was strength.” “But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also.” Okonkwo said yes very strongly so his chi agreed. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. “At the most one could say that his chi or … personal god was good. And not only his chi but his clan too, because it judged a man by the work of his hands.” But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man say yes his chi says yes also. At the most one could say that his chi or personal god was good. At an early age he had achieved fame as the greatest wrestler in all the land. “If ever a man deserved his success, that man was Okonkwo. ~Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Chapter 4, “Looking at a king’s mouth, ‘ said an old man, ‘one would think he never sucked at his mother’s breast.” It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.” A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. ![]() “It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.” “Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he has learned to fly without perching.” “As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look.” ~Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Chapter 3, “When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.” It was not external but lay deep within himself.” It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. “Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. “When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk” ~Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Chapter 2, ![]() “A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.” “Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. “Fortunately, among these people a man was judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of his father.” ![]() ~Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Chapter 1, Pages 7, 8 “Our elders say that the sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.” “Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.” ~Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Chapter 1, ~Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Chapter 1, Pages 5, 6 Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe.” “No, it is for you, I think,” and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. But I think you ought to break it,” replied Okoye passing back the disc. “I have kola,” he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest. “Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. ![]() Things Fall Apart Quotes With Page Numbers Part One Things Fall Apart Quotes With Page Numbers Part One.
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