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Each of the egwugwu represented a village of the clan. (Pg. 89)

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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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He heard Ikemefuna cry "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.
-narrator (chapter 7 pg. 61)

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"Somebody told me yesterday", said one of the younger men, "that in some clans it is an abomination for a man to die during the Week of Peace". "It is indeed true," said Ogbuefi Ezeudu. "They have that custom in Obodoani. If a man dies at this time he is not buried but cast into the Evil Forest." ( Pg. 32)

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"many young man have come to me to ask for yams but i refused because i knew they would just dump them to the earth and leave them to be choked by weeds."

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Okonkwo's neighbors heard his wife crying and sent their voices over the compound walls to ask what was the matter. Some of them came over to see for themselves. It was unheard of to beat somebody during the sacred week (Achebe 30)

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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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He brought out a sharp razor from the goatskin bag slung on 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. (page 78-79)

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¨His name was Nwakibie and he had taken the highest but one title which a man could take in the clan. It was for this man that Okonkwo worked to earn his first seed yams.¨ (pg. 18-19)

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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. (Chapter 9, Page 78)

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And so the neighbouring clans who naturally knew of these things feared Umuofia, and would not go to war against it without trying a peaceful settlement. Pg 12

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And so the neighboring clans who naturally knew of these things feared Umuofia, and would not go to war against it without first trying a peaceful settlement.

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Ezeudu's quarter stormed Okonkwo's compound, dressed in garbs of war. They set fire to his houses, demolished his red walls, killed his animals and destroyed his barn (chapter 13 pg 125)

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"We live in peace with our fellows to honor our great goddess of the earth without whose blessing our crops will not grow" (Achebe 30).

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“You will bring to the shrine of Ani tomorrow one she-goat, one hen, a length of cloth and a hundred cowries”(Ch.4 Pg.27).

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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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pg 61-62 Nwoye had heard that twins were put in earthenware pots and thrown away in the forest...

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Large crowds began to gather on the village ilo... most communal ceremonies took place at that time of the day, so that even when it was said that a ceremony would begin "after the mid-day meal" everyone understood that it would begin a long time later (Achebe 87)

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"You know as well as I do that our forefathers ordained that before we plant crops in the Earth we should observe a week in which a man does not say a harsh word to his neighbor."
(Achebe 30).

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" We live in a peace with our fellows to honor our great goddess of the earth without whose blessing our crops will not grow" (Achebe 30).

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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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An ultimatum was immediately dispatched to Mbaino asking them to choose between war on the one hand, and on the other the offer of a young man and a virgin as compensation(Achebe 11).

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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)

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As soon as Uchendu saw him (Okonkwo) with his sad and weary company he guessed what had happened, and asked no questions . . . Okonkwo was given a plot of ground, on which to build his compound, and two or three pieces of land for which to farm during planting season . . . Each of  Uchendu's five sons contributed three hundred seed-yams to enable to plant a farm (Achebe, Pages 129-130).