Things Fall Apart
Across
- 4. novel Things Fall Apart is written as a response to
- 5. type of society that the Ibo culture is based on
- 6. this is the area where the villagers gave the missionaries a piece of its land
- 7. how long Okonkwo was exiled for
- 11. outcasts
- 12. religion followed by the Ibo culture which identifies with the world of spirit, nature, and gods in terms of natural forces and phenomena
- 15. village where the novel takes place
- 16. author of Things Fall Apart
- 18. the missionaries built this to recruit converts to Christianity
- 21. the Oracle (diety)
- 22. evil spirit that repeatedly comes back after death to haunt the same family (and inhabitants the same womb)
Down
- 1. wrestler who Okonkwo defeated to be the reigning champion
- 2. the country where the novel takes place
- 3. protagonist
- 8. audience that Achebe intended to read Things Fall Apart
- 9. Okonkwo's favorite child, often wishes she were a son
- 10. what the locals call the bicycle
- 13. Okonkwo's mother's village
- 14. Okonkwo's adopted son, traded from another village
- 17. Okonkwo's father
- 19. most important crop for the village's livelihood
- 20. culture that Things Fall Apart is set in