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Roderick - Why did Unoka go to visit the Oracle of Agbala? What message did he receive? Why is this important to our understanding of Okonkwo's  character? 

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Roderick - Why did Unoka go to visit the Oracle of Agbala? What message did he receive? Why is this important to our understanding of Okonkwo's  character? 

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His father, Unoka, consulted the Oracle of the Hills and Caves, asking why he had produced bad harvests each year in spite of his sacrifices and planting procedures. Agbala’s priestess interrupts as Unoka begins explaining himself. She says that he has no one but himself to blame for his bad harvests. She points out his laziness in contrast to his neighbors’ admirable work ethic and sends him away with simple advice: “go home and work like a man.” This shows you even more how he was a lazy man and everyone and the whole village knew.

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Nathaniel Reynolds-What does Obierka feel about the part that Okonkwo played in the murder? What might this suggest about his character? Use a quotation from the text as support.

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Nathaniel Reynolds-What does Obierka feel about the part that Okonkwo played in the murder? What might this suggest about his character? Use a quotation from the text as support.

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He was very disappointed in Okonkwo and made it apparent how much he disapproved of the murder. He was also disappointed and disgusted with his reaction to the murder as well.

"I cannot understand why you refused to come with us to kill that boy," he asked Obierika. "Because I did not want to," Obierika replied sharply. "I had something better to do." "You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." "But someone had to do it. If we were all afraid of blood, it would not be done. And what do you think the Oracle would do then?" "You know very well, Okonkwo, that I am not afraid of blood and if anyone tells you that I am, he is telling a lie. And let me tell you one thing, my friend. If I were you I would have stayed at home. What you have done will not please the Earth. It is the kind of action for which the goddess wipes out whole families."

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Halani-What does the story of Ezinma tell us about the customs and beliefs of the society?

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Halani-What does the story of Ezinma tell us about the customs and beliefs of the society?

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"The medicine man then ordered that there should be no mourning for the dead

child. He brought out a sharp razor from the goatskin bag slung from his left shoulder and

began to mutilate the child. Then he took it away to bury in the Evil Forest, holding it by the

ankle and dragging it on the ground behind him. After such treatment it would think twice

before coming again, unless it was one of the stubborn ones who returned, carrying the

stamp of their mutilation--a missing finger or perhaps a dark line where the medicine man's

razor had cut them."

This quote from the story is an example of what they do when a child continues to die. They look at it as the same child coming back to torture their mother. This is why they buried it in the Evil forest. They believe that if they mutilate it would be scared of what happened to them the last time and won't come back unless their stubborn.

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Madisyn Hill- Briefly explain the crisis that has occurred between Umuofia and the neighboring village of Mbaino. How is this crisis resolved? Use a quotation from the text as support.

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Madisyn Hill- Briefly explain the crisis that has occurred between Umuofia and the neighboring village of Mbaino. How is this crisis resolved? Use a quotation from the text as support.

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One of Mbaino's villagers killed the daughter of one of Umuofia's villagers. According to the text it states,“And in a clear unemotional voice he told Umuofia how their daughter had gone to market at Mbaino and had been killed.” The war between the two villages is a threat. “And so, when Okonkwo of Umuofia arrived at Mbaino as the proud and imperious emissary of war, he was treated with great honour and respect, and two days later he returned home with a lad of fifteen and a young virgin.” As a result, the Umuofia people wish to settle the crisis and have agreed to sacrifice a virgin and a young boy.

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17.	What do you learn about the customs involved in preparing for a wedding in this chapter? Use a quotation from the text as support.  (8)  Emilia

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17.	What do you learn about the customs involved in preparing for a wedding in this chapter? Use a quotation from the text as support.  (8)  Emilia

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The price for the bride is decided before the wedding by the bride and groom's families.  In chapter 8, Obierika's daughter's suitor and his family visited Obierika's obi to discuss the price of her. Broomsticks were used to determine how much she was worth. "He then added
ten sticks to the fifteen and gave the bundle to Ukegbu.
In this way, Akuke's bride-price was finally settled at twenty bags of cowries. It was already dusk when the two parties came to this agreement." This section describes the process of deciding how much the bride was worth.

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6. Gabriel Barnes- What do we learn about Okonkwo's early years as a farmer? Use a quotation form the text as support.

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6. Gabriel Barnes- What do we learn about Okonkwo's early years as a farmer? Use a quotation form the text as support.

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We learn that in Okonkwo's early years, he was forced to work with someone else's crops. This is because his father didn't own a barn. His name was Nwakibie and he was a wealthy man that lived in Okonkwo's village. He struggled in his early years due to late and short rain seasons. The story stated "The first rains were late, and, when they came, lasted only a brief moment. The blazing sun returned, more fierce than it had ever been known, and scorched all the green that had appeared with the rains. The earth burned like hot coals and roasted all the yams that had been sown." All the crops that had started growing had been killed by the blazing heat.

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Brianna Carr-                                                        2,What do you learn about his father Unoka?  How has Okonkwo been affected by his father’s character. Use a quotation from the text as support.    

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Brianna Carr-                                                        2,What do you learn about his father Unoka?  How has Okonkwo been affected by his father’s character. Use a quotation from the text as support.    

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Unoka was agbala, which in his case means man with out a title. He was lazy and heavily in debt. Okonkwo pushed himself to not and never be like his father and so he hated everything his father loved. In the book it states "And so

Okonkwo was ruled by one passion - to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved.

One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness".  He fears to even resemble him as stated in the book "it was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to

resemble his father".

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1. Nicholas - What do you lean about Okonkwo's character and achievements in Chapter 1?

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1. Nicholas - What do you lean about Okonkwo's character and achievements in Chapter 1?

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Okonkwo wants to be the opposite of his father. His father was known as a failure for how lazy he was. Okonkwo knew this and wanted to be successful. This encouraged him to become a hardworking man. According to the text, " It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father. Even as a little boy he had resented his father's failure and weakness, and even now he still remembered how he had suffered when a playmate had told him that his father was agbala."

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Olivia D.- Question 11: Describe the Feast of New Yam.

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Olivia D.- Question 11: Describe the Feast of New Yam.

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The Feast of New Yam is a celebration honoring the Earth Goddess Ani, an important deity in the Igbo Culture. According to the text, "Ani

played a greater part in the life of the people than any other deity. She was the ultimate

judge of morality and conduct." Yams were offered to the Goddess and the ancestral spirits of the clan during the festival. The Feast of New Yam also marked the start of a new year, so yams from the previous year were thrown out. During the celebration, large amounts of yam foo-foo and vegetable soup were cooked. The text states, "So much of it was cooked

that, no matter how heavily the family ate or how many friends and relatives they invited

from neighboring villages, there was always a large quantity of food left over at the end of

the day."

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7. Keelia Brasfield- What is Okonkwo's attitude toward men who are less successful than he is?

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7. Keelia Brasfield- What is Okonkwo's attitude toward men who are less successful than he is?

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Okonkwo had zero patience for men he deems as lazy or effeminate. He didn't see them as men and likely automatically considered them less hard working since, after all, he had gotten to where he was through his own efforts alone. In early chapter four it is stated that, "a man had contradicted him at a kindred meeting which they held to discuss the next ancestral feast. Without looking at the man Okonkwo had said: "This meeting is for men."" The man he said this to also happened to have no titles. This view of people being lesser than him likely had ties to how he saw his own father, lazy and disgraceful.

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Camille Hardy- Question 13: Describe the Wrestling Match. Why do you think it's such an important social event in the village?

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Camille Hardy- Question 13: Describe the Wrestling Match. Why do you think it's such an important social event in the village?

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Wrestling matches are widely celebrated in the Igbo culture. There is even a wrestling contest held on the second day of the New Yam Festival. I think wrestling is important to the Igbo people because it shows a mans strength and agility. It also brings honor to the village which the victor is from. According to the text, " The second day of the new year was the day of the great wrestling match between Okonkwo's village and their neighbours. It was difficult to say which the people enjoyed more, the feasting and fellowship of the first day or the wrestling Contest of the second. " They Igbo people in the village loved the wrestling just as much as the feasting they do on the first day of the New Yam Festivals.

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Skylar- Question 10: Explain the significance of the Week of Peace.

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Skylar- Question 10: Explain the significance of the Week of Peace.

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The week of peace is a sacred week that honors the earth goddess in order to have good crops for the season. The importance of this week is further shown in the text because during this time the people are expected to be kind and not harsh towards one another, and Okonkwo breaks this rule by beating his wife. Okonkwo was punished for actions which shows the great importance of this week because any other time he would not have been punished and his actions would have been considered reasonable because these interactions were normalized outside of the week of peace. The text emphasize the importance further by the dialogue between Okonkwo and the priest. "The evil you have done can ruin the whole clan. The earth goddess whom you have insulted may refuse to give us her increase, and we shall all perish." The priest calls his actions evil in fear of something bad coming upon the clan because of his actions.

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12. Camille Hall- What preparations are made for the wrestling match? (Ch. 5)

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12. Camille Hall- What preparations are made for the wrestling match? (Ch. 5)

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To prepare for the wrestling match, drums start to beat at noon and continue to beat until sunset. This is shown in chapter five when Ekwefi says to Ezinma, ""Yes. The drums begin at noon but the wrestling waits until the sun begins to sink. Go and see if your father has brought out yams for the afternoon."" Okankwo's wives are busy preparing yam dishes, and for the Feast of the New Yam, no matter how many people are invited, there is always food left over. It is customary to invite as many people as possible for the celebration as well. The text shows this by stating, "And every man whose arm was strong, as the Ibo people say, was expected to invite large numbers of guests from far and wide. Okonkwo always asked his wives' relations, and since he now had three wives his guests would make a fairly big crowd." The matches begin with boys who are 15-16 to set the scene for the actual wrestling matches.

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8. Abigail - Describe Ikemefuna's role within Okonkwo's family (Ch. 2-4).

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8. Abigail - Describe Ikemefuna's role within Okonkwo's family (Ch. 2-4).

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Ikemefuna acted as a role model for Okonkwo's oldest son, Nwoye. He eventually earned respect and deep regard from Okonkwo. He was like a son to Okonkwo. In chapter four when describing Okonkwo's relationship with Ikemefuna, the text states, "Sometimes when he went to big village meetings or communal ancestral feasts he allowed Ikemefuna to accompany him, like a son, carrying his stool and his goatskin bag. And, indeed, Ikemefuna called him father."

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Danielle - 9: What crime does Okonkwo commit during the Week of Peace?  What punishment does he receive for his actions?  Use a quotation from the text as support.

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Danielle - 9: What crime does Okonkwo commit during the Week of Peace?  What punishment does he receive for his actions?  Use a quotation from the text as support.

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The crime that Okonkwo committed, was the beating of his wife.  In the passage it states, " He walked back to his obi to await Ojiugo's return. And when she returned he beat her very heavily. In his anger he had forgotten that it was the Week of Peace. On the other hand, his punishment was to make a ritual sacrifice. In the passage it states, "His tone now changed from anger to command. "You will bring to the

shrine of Ani tomorrow one she-goat, one hen, a length of cloth and a hundred cowries." He rose and left the hut."

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15: Aeneas M- How does Okonkwo react to Ikemefuna's death? Use a quotation from the text as support.

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15: Aeneas M- How does Okonkwo react to Ikemefuna's death? Use a quotation from the text as support.

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Okonkwo started to feel a small internal pain after killing Ikemefuna, due to the prolonged period of time he spent shaping him into a "man." According to the text, "How can a man who has killed 5 men in battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their number? This represents Okonkwo's internal feelings as they relate to the situation by allowing the readers to realize he struggled with killing Ikemefuna and felt the after effects. Okonkwo also asks himself, "When did you become a shivering old woman?" Okonkwo says this , allowing us to infer from the quote that he is still continuing to struggle killing Ikemefuna, as he is going through a variety of feelings during this transition. Overall, Okonkwo had a minimal hard time getting over the death of Ikemefuna, but still felt something while and after the event occurred.

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Question 14: What effect does Ikemefuna death have on Nwoye

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Question 14: What effect does Ikemefuna death have on Nwoye

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The death of Ikemefuna irreversibly harms Nwoye and his relationship with his father. Since Ikemefuna was like an older brother figure to Nwoye. As stated in the text saying he "busted into tears" knowing that Ikemefuna was going to be killed.

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1. What do you learn about Okonkwo’s character and achievements in chapter 1?  Use a quotation from the text as support. (1)  Nicholas

2. What do you learn about his father Unoka?  How has Okonkwo been affected by his father’s character. Use a quotation from the text as support. (1)  Brianna

3. Briefly explain the crisis that has occurred between Umuofia and the neighboring village of Mbaino.  How is this crisis resolved? Use a quotation from the text as support.  (2)  Madisyn

4. We learn in this chapter that Okonkwo’s “whole life was dominated by fear.”  What is he afraid of? Use a quotation from the text as support. (2)  Jaedrick

5. Why did Unoka go to visit the Oracle of Agbala?  What message did he receive?  Why is this important to our understanding of Okonkwo’s character?  Use a quotation from the text as support.  (3)  Roderick

6. What do we learn about Okonkwo’s early years as a farmer? Use a quotation from the text as support.  (3)  Gabriel

7. What is Okonkwo’s attitude toward men who are less successful than he is?   Why? Use a quotation from the text as support.  (4) Keelia

8. Describe Ikemefuna’s role within Okonkwo’s family (Ch. 2-4). Use a quotation from the text as support.  Abigail

9. What crime does Okonkwo commit during the Week of Peace?  What punishment does he receive for his actions?  Use a quotation from the text as support.  (4)  Danielle

10. Explain the significance of the Week of Peace. Use a quotation from the text as support. (4)  Skylar

11. Describe the Feast of the New Yam. Use a quotation from the text as support. (5)  Olivia

12. What preparations are made for the wrestling match? Use a quotation from the text as support.  (5)  Camille Hall

13. Describe the Wrestling Match.  Why do you think it’s such an important social event in the village? Use a quotation from the text as support. (5)  Camille Hardy

14. What effect does Ikemefuna’s death have on Nwoye?  Use a quotation from the text as support.  (7)  Jin

15. How does Okonkwo react to Ikemefuna’s death?  Use a quotation from the text as support.  (8)  Aeneas

16. What does Obierka feel about the part that Okonkwo played in the murder? What might this suggest about his (Obierika’s) character? Use a quotation from the text as support.  (8) Nathaniel

17. What do you learn about the customs involved in preparing for a wedding in this chapter? Use a quotation from the text as support.  (8)  Emilia

18. Why is Ekwefi so worried when she discovers that Ezinma is suffering from a fever? Use a quotation from the text as support.  (9)  Sydney

19. What does the story of Ezinma tell us about the customs and beliefs of this society? Use a quotation from the text as support.  (9)  Halani

20. Define/explain ogbanje and iyi-uwa.  Why do Okonkwo and Ekwefi believe Ezinma is an ogbanje? Use a quotation from the text as support.  (9)  Nisa

21. What does chapter 10 show about the system of justice in the community?  Use a quotation from the text as support.

22. What does chapter 10 show about the roles of men and women?  Use a quotation from the text as support.