Carefully read Things Fall Apart up till the end of Part One (Chapter 14) Answer the study questions below to help you make sense of the many cultural events described in these chapters. Remember they are included for a specific purpose. Additionally, write one other character analysis-- give yourself no more than 35 minutes to write. Bring to class Monday. Additionally, begin to review the following terms: tragedy (all the lecture notes), freytag's pyramid, literary terms: metaphor, allusion, simlie, rhetorical question, apostrophe, the conventions of fiction, personification, the plot graph. Start reviewing the stories from The Bible, Job, for your final exam.
Chapter 11
1. Why don’t the birds want Tortoise to join them at the feast in the sky?
2. How does Tortoise convince the birds to allow him to join them at the feast?
3. How is Tortoise able to fly with the birds of the sky?
4. What are some of the hard things Tortoise’s wife takes out of the house to prepare for Tortoise’s fall?
Chapter 12
5. The members of Obierika’s extended family sit in a half-moon. When his in-laws arrive, they complete thecircle. What is the significance of the seating arrangement?
6. What purpose is served by involving the reader in a traditional Nigerian wedding?
Chapter 13-14
7. What is the name of Okonkwo’s village?
8. Why does Okonkwo shudder when he learns of Ezedu's death?
9. What does the one-handed spirit mean when he asks Ezeudu to come again the way he came before?
10. What horrible accident happens at Ezedu's funeral and why is it significant to Okonkwo?
11. Why does Obierika begin to wonder about the justice of the Earth goddess?
12. What do the elders mean when they say “If one finger brought oil it soiled the others”?
