THINGS FALL APART
Across
- 2. Okonkwo's mother's youngest brother, takes in Okonkwo and his family after the incident
- 3. Okonkwo's father
- 6. ____ wine
- 9. Okonkwo's eldest daughter, Okonkwo believes she should have been a boy
- 11. Igbo word for home used within the novel
- 12. form of tobacco that Okonkwo and other men frequently enjoy
- 13. member of Okonkwo's family who joins the Christian church
- 15. a common name for children, means "mother is supreme"
- 17. the ______forest is where the clan allows the white men to set up their church
- 18. this vegetable is grown by the men in the clan
- 22. Okonkwo compares himself to this element of nature
- 23. Okonkwo may return to his village after this many years have passed
- 25. Okonkwo's best friend
- 27. the village translator seems to say this word instead of my "self"
- 28. lends Okonkwo seeds to start his farm in the beginning of the novel
- 31. Okonkwo's oldest son
- 32. one of the first converts to the Christian church is a woman who has given birth to many:
Down
- 1. Igbo word for murder used within the novel
- 4. Igbo word for a changeling, child who repeatedly dies and "returns" to its mother
- 5. a clan that has been completely wiped out by the "white man"
- 7. village in which the novel is set
- 8. Okonkwo's motherland
- 10. the first white men to visit Okonkwo's clan are:
- 14. Okonkwo's punishment
- 16. a widow and the priestess in Umofia
- 17. the oldest man in the village, has a grand funeral
- 19. Okonkwo believes that if he is fire, it makes since that his son would be:
- 20. the center of the clan's economy
- 21. fanatical convert to the Christian church, causes trouble
- 24. masked gods of the clan, show up to important matters
- 26. Okonkwo is not punished more severely for his crime because it was an:
- 29. comes to live with Okonkwo and his family as a sacrifice
- 30. hardworking, aggressive, fears anything related to weakness