Things Fall Apart characters
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Okonkwo | son of lazy Unoka, gained fame by throwing the Amalinze the Cat in a wrestling match. Views gentleness as weakness. His favorite 2 children are Ikemefuna and Ezinma |
| Unoka | Okonkwo's father lazy, mockery of the village. Loves to play his flute, was a failure to his son but a very gentle father. |
| Nwoye | Okonkwo's eldest son who is often beaten by his father for favoring feminine ways such as stories from his mother instead of being a fierce man. Tends to take after his grandfather until Ikemefuna comes along and mentors him to win faver with Okonkwo. After Ikemefuna's death he is lost and soon converts to Christianity where he finds security in himself. |
| Ezinma | Okonkwo's favorite daughter and the only child of Ekwefi. Okonkwo wishes she had been born a boy. Ezinma alone seems to win Okonkwo's full attention, affection, and, ironically, respect. She puts off marriage until her family returns from exile to help her father gain his way back into the tribe. |
| Ikemefuna | came from the tribe of Mbaino; he was given along with a virgin girl as recompense because Mbaino killed a wife of Umofia |
| Umuofia | village of Okonkwo |
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