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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" (Achebe #78)

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"Old men and children would then sit round log fires, warming their bodies. Unoka loved it all, and he loved it all, and he loved the first kites that returned with the dry season, and the children who sang songs of welcome to them" (Achebe 5).

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"Some days later, when the land had been moistened by two or three heavy rains, Okonkwo and his family went to the farm... and made single mounds of earth in straight lines all over the field and sowed the ayms in them," (Achebe 33)

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"It was a crime against the earth goddess to kill a clansman, and a man who committed it must flee from the land...He could return to the clan after seven years" (Ch-13, P, 124)

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"Many others spoke, and at the end it was decided to follow the normal course of action. An ultimatum was immediatly dispatched to Mbaino asking them to choose between war ... [or to make an] offer of a young gitl and a virign as compensation" (Achebe 11).

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"Nwoye had heard that twins were put in earthenware pots and thrown away in the forest" (Page 62).

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"Okonkwo was to flee from the clan. It was a crime against the earth goddess to kill a clansman, and a man who committed it must flee from the land. The crime had two forms male and female. Okonkwo had committed the female because it was inadvertent." (Achebe #124)

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"He brought out a sharp razor from the goatsking bag slung from his left shoulder and began to mutilate the child"(Achebe 78)

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"This meeting is for men"(Achebe # 26)

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"It [The Feast of the New Yam] was an occasion for giving thanks to an Ani, the earth goddess and the source of all fertility" (Page 36).

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Okonkwo did as the presist said. He also took with him a pot of palm wine(Achebe #31).

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"Your wife was at fault, but even if you founder he lover on top of her, you would still have commited a great evil to beat her... you will bring to the shrine one she-goat, one hen, a cloth and a hundred cowries." (Achebe 30-31)

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"we have heard both sides of the case.... our duty is not to blame the man or praise that, but to settle the dispute.... go to your in-laws with a pot of palm wine and beg your wife to return to you." (Achebe 93)

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"Okonkwo had committed a female, because it had been inadvertent" (Achebe 124)

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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... and began to mutilate the child," (Achebe 78)

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"Okonkwo's gun had exploded and a piece of iron had pierced the boy's heart. Okonkwo had committed the female [crime, and] could return to the clan after seven years" (Achebe 124).

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[The medicine man]brought out a sharp razor... and began to mutilate the child. Then he took it away... holding it by the ankle and dragging it on the ground behind him. After such treatment it would think twice before coming again” (Ch. 9 p. 78-79).

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"Without further argument Okonkwo gave her a sound beating and left her and her only daughter crying."

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"It was a crime against the earth goddess to kill a clansman, and a man who committed it must flee from the land...He could return to the clan after seven years" (Achebe 124)

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"The drums beat the unmistakable wrestling dance - quick, light and gay, and it came floating on the wind." (Achebe 42)

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"He died and rotted away above the earth, and was not given the first or the second burial" (Achebe 18)

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"She wore the anklet of her husbands titles, which the first wife alone could wear." (Achebe 20)

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""The evil you have done can ruin the whole clan...you will bring to the shrine of Ani tomorrow one she-goat, one hen, a length of cloth, and a hundred cowries"" (Achebe 31)

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"Yam, the king of crops, was a very exacting king. For two or three moons it demanded hard work and constant attention from cock-crow till the chickens went back to roost." (Achebe 33)

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"As our people say, a man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness" (Achebe 19).

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"My father they have killed me! as he ran towards him. Dazed with fear, Okonkwo drew his machete and cut him down. He was afraid of being thought weak" (Achebe 61)

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"It was a crime against the earth goddess to kill a clansman, and a man who committed it must flee from the land... Okonkwo had committed the female [crime], because it had been inadvertent." (Achebe 124)

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"He brought out a sharp razor from the goatskin bag slung from his left shoulder and began to mutilate the child" (Achebe 78).

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"Among the Igbo people the art of conversation was regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten." (Achebe 7)

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"You must bring to the shrine of Ani . . . one she-goat, one hen, a length of cloth and a hundred cowries." (Achebe 31)

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Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil of which words are eaten (Ch. 1 - pg. 7).

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"Yes, Umuofia has decided to kill him. The Oracle of the Hills and the Caves has pronounced it. THey will take him outside Umuofia as is the custom, and kill him there." (Ch. 7, p. 57)