Characters TFA 1
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kdziura on October 6, 2009
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Characters in Things Fall Apart 1-6
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APLITCOMPF12, Mrs. Cummin's English Class, phu ib 2015!, ENGLISH12DZ
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ekwefi | Okonkwo's second wife |
| Ojiugo | Okonkwo's third wife |
| Nwakibie | Loans yams for sharecropping |
| Nwoye | Okonkwo's eldest son |
| Okonkwo | Protagonist with anger problems |
| Obiageli | Daughter who breaks pot |
| Agbala | Name for Oracle of Hills and Caves |
| Chika | Priestess when Unoka asks why crops fail |
| Chielo | Current priestess |
| Okoye | Asks Unoka for money & is laughed at |
| Unoka | Okonkwo's lazy father whom he tries not to be like |
| Ogbuefi Ezeudu | Orator, Elder and friend of Okonkwo |
| Ikemefuna | Adopted into Okonkwo's household from Mbaino |
| Mbaino | Village of Ikemefuna's origin |
| Umuofia | Okonkwo's home village |
| A man can more easily accept a general failure than a personal failure | Unoka's response to Okonkwo's bad first year of sharecropping |
| yams | King of crops |
| Amalinze the Cat | Wrestler Okonkwo defeats |
| Violation of Week of Peace | Beating Ojiugo |
| Ezinma | favorite daughter |
| Oracle of the Hills and Caves | powerful, important oracle |
| ogbanje | child dies young, returns again |
| Mbanta | Okonkwo's mother's village |
| egwugwu | village elders |
| iyi-uwa | A stone which links ogbanje and the spirit world |
| Uchendu | Okonkwo's Uncle |
| Obierika | Okonkwo's close friend and foil |
| Mr. Kiaga | First missionary |
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