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Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

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Things Fall Apart Questions on Chapter 11

Things Fall Apart

In Things Fall Apart, superstitions include the belief that evil will fall on the clan if Okonkwo beats his wife during Peace Week, the ogbanje (wicked children reborn after dying), and digging up...

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Things Fall Apart

When the priestess Chielo takes Ezinma to the Oracle, she carries Ezinma on her back through the nine villages and into the Oracle's cave, leaving Ekwefi, Ezinma's mother, anxiously waiting outside....

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Things Fall Apart

The birds in "Things Fall Apart" don't want the tortoise to join their sky feast because they know he is untrustworthy, embodying traits despised by the Ibo people such as laziness and deceitfulness....

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