Things Fall Apart

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