Things Fall Apart
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- Chapter 3
- “Unoka was an ill-fated man. 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. He died of swelling which was an abomination against the earth goddess”
- Chapter 4
- “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”
- Chapter 5
- “The Feast of the New Yam was held every year before the harvest began, to honor the earth goddess and the ancestral spirits of the clan”
- All of Unoka’s failures were the result of bad chi or personal god. It implies that he was born into this state. He died alone in the forest and his misfortune followed him.
- Chapter 7
- “He sang it in his mind, and walked to its beat. If the song ended on his right foot, his mother was alive. If it ended on his left foot, she was dead...It ended on the right...The first voice gets to Chukwu, or God’s house.”
- This proverb gives a reason as to why Okonkwo is so successful. That his personality shapes his chi. Because okonkwo said yes, his chi, or god, also agreed.
- Chapter 13
- “It was a crime against the earth goddess to kill a clansman,and a man who committed it must flee from the land. The crimewas of two kinds, male and female. Okonkwo had committedthe female, because it had been inadvertent. He could return tothe clan after seven years…”
- This implies that the clan puts a lot of trust and thanks into what the earth goddess does for them. They believe that the earth goddess blessed them with food for harvesting.
- Chapter 21
- It's an example of religious singing. This is Ikemefuna while he is being chased and he was singing a religious song from his mother for comfort.
- Okonkwo has to be exiled for his doing because it was against the gods beliefs. The clan prioritized religion and decided to send okonkwo away for 7 years.
- Okonkwo and the missionary man compared beliefs about who they believed in. Chukwu is the Igbo god. The missionaries believe in a supreme god, but chukwu is comparable.
- “We also believe in Him and call Him Chukwu. He made all the world and other gods.”
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