Things Fall Apart
Across
- 2. a very poor person
- 4. to make amends or reparation, as for an offense or a crime
- 6. a string of waist beads
- 8. a vicious or depraved person; villain
- 10. a soldier or other person set to guard an entrance
- 13. official approval or sanction
- 17. a musical instrument, a type of drum made from wood
- 18. the large living quarters of the head of the family
- 20. to cause to adopt a different religion or opinion
Down
- 1. Okonkwo's second wife, once the village beauty
- 3. The only child of Okonkwo's second wife, Ekwefi
- 5. most valuable cash crop grown in the village
- 7. A boy given to Okonkwo by a neighboring village
- 9. a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury
- 11. to express sharp, stern disapproval of
- 12. not easily depressed; cheerful
- 14. exceptional or superior ability, skill, or strength
- 15. Okonkwo's oldest son, whom Okonkwo believes is weak and lazy
- 16. a dye used by women for drawing patterns on the skin
- 19. Okonkwo's father, of who Okonkwo has been ashamed since childhood