https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786 Made By Us en-us 2017-03-29 21:56:03 UTC 2026-03-07 03:10:50 UTC hello@padlet.com moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163561878 *well known (pg.3)
*fame (pg.3)
*personal achievements (pg.3)
*At 18 through a 7 year undefeated wrestler  (pg.3)
* tall & huge (pg.3)
CHARACTERIZATION
*Bushy eyebrows (pg.3)
*Wide nose (Pg.4)
*Severe looking (pg.4)
*Breathed heavily (pg.4)
*Seemed to walk on springs (pg.4)
*Had a slight stammer when angered (pg.4)
*No patience with unsuccessful men (in relation to his father.) pg.4
*ashamed of his father
*first to bring home a human head the 5th one(pg.12
*Ruled his household with a heavy hand. (pg. 13)
*fiery temper (pg. 13)
*whole life dominated by fear (the fear of failure)
*Rose suddenly from great poverty and misfortune
*GREATEST wrestler in all the land

]]> 2017-03-29 21:58:48 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163561878 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163561905 *Father of Okonkwo (pg.4)
*Deceased (pg.4)
YOUTH
* () Lazy &  () improvident(pg.4): not having or showing foresight; spendthrift or thoughtless.
IMPORTANT QUOTE
*"If any money came his way, and it seldom did, he immediately bought gourds of palm-wine, called called round his neighbors and made merry. "  (pg.4)
*" ....his happiest moments were the two or three moons after the harvest when the village musicians brought down their instruments, hung above the fireplace."   (pg.4)
*" He always said that whenever he he saw a dead man's mouth he saw the folly (lack of good sense; foolishness.) of not eating what one had in one's lifetime."  (pg.4)
*A debtor  (pg.4)
VOCAB & DEFINITIONS
*cowries- usually brightly marked shells
*haggard- looking exhausted and unwell, especially from fatigue, worry, or suffering.
*tall & very thin  (pg.4)
* ? slight stoop ?  (pg.4)
*() haggard and mournful look  (pg.4)
       -except for when drinking or           playing his flute.  (pg.4)
* GOOD on his flute  (pg.4)
* Played his flute with the village musicians (pg.4)
     ()   -beaming with blessedness        and peace  (pg.4)
* Loved good fare and good fellowship (pg.5)
*Loves when spring is over and summer is present. (pg.5)
*FIRST KITES (pg.5)
OLD AGE
* () Failure (pg.5)
* () Poor (pg.5)
*Married (pg.5)
* () Had barely enough to feed his family (pg.5)
* () Laughed at (pg.5)
* () A loafer (a person who idles time away.) (pg.5)
*Never happy about war (pg.6)
*() Coward (pg.6)
*Could not bear the sight of blood (pg.6)
SPECIAL LANGUAGE
* "He could hear in his mind's ear....." (pg.6)
*dramatic
* () No title




]]> 2017-03-29 21:59:11 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163561905 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163561929 *not too hot
      -because the cold and dry   harmattan wind was blowing down from the north
*Heavy rain had been drowning the yams



]]> 2017-03-29 21:59:32 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163561929 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163561943 * prayed to their ancestors for life, health, and protection from enemies.
*Ancestral feast
*The oracle of the hills and the cave 
- If the oracle was disobeyed the clan would lose the war .]]> 2017-03-29 21:59:41 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163561943 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163562008 "Looking at a king's mouth," said an old man, "one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast."

"Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man." 

“If ever a man deserved his success, that man was Okonkwo.”


]]> 2017-03-29 22:00:24 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163562008 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163562982 * " The drums beat and the flutes sang and the spectators held their breath." (pg. 3)
* Colorful and plaintive tune (pg.6)

]]> 2017-03-29 22:10:52 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163562982 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163563090 *Amalinze was the GREAT wresterler
*town crier
* Ogbuefi Ezeugo was a POWERFUL orator]]> 2017-03-29 22:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163563090 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163566872 ()        CONNECTION
[]        READING NOTES]]> 2017-03-29 22:51:29 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163566872 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163567028 Described in length of markets  (pg.4)]]> 2017-03-29 22:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163567028 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163567409 #1 : Okonkwo's fear is described as being greater than the fears that have been common in their village for generations (SEE SUPERSTITION), greater than all natural forces and all that comes with them ]]> 2017-03-29 22:57:28 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163567409 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163568620 *Neighbor to Unoka (pg.5)
*Carried goatskin under his arm (pg.5)
*A musician who played the ogene ( large metal bell)
*Not a failure
*Had a large barn full of yams
*3 wives
*Idemili : The third highest in the land
*GREAT talker
*]]> 2017-03-29 23:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163568620 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163569406 *"He who brings kola brings life."
* "Among the Ibo  the art of conversation is regarded very highly..."
*".... Among these people a man was judged according to his worth and not according to the worth of his father." (pg.8)
*on a moonlight night children play in open fields
*Judged a man by the work of his hands]]> 2017-03-29 23:15:05 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163569406 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163570137 -There is to be war with the village of Mbaino
- The elders are called ndichie
-The virgin was given to Ogbuefi Udo to replace his murdered wife

]]> 2017-03-29 23:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163570137 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163688943 *"Children were warned not to whistle at night for fear of evil spirits."
*"A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear."
*When a man says yes his chi says yes also]]> 2017-03-30 13:07:43 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163688943 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163689785 * Gome, gome, gome, gome
*trill of a million million forest insects]]> 2017-03-30 13:10:23 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163689785 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163730360 *White head
*White beard

]]> 2017-03-30 14:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163730360 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163730623 *murdered  a daughter of Umuofia
           - gone to the market at Mbaino 
            - wife of Ogbuefi Udo 
*sinister smile 

]]> 2017-03-30 14:57:21 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163730623 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163733009 *feared by all neighbors 
*powerful in war and magic
*Priests and medicine men were feared by surrounding countries. 
* agadi-nwayi shrine in the center of Umuofia ]]> 2017-03-30 15:03:47 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163733009 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163810086 * 15 years old
*given to Umuofia
*belonged to the clan as a whole
*lived in Okonkwo's household for three years
*Tried to run away
* Had a mom and 3 year old sister
*Would not eat any food
IMPORTANT QUOTES]]> 2017-03-30 19:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163810086 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163811627 *Interim :in or for the intervening period; provisional or temporary.
* Perpetual : never ending or changing.
* Capricious :  given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior.
* Malevolent : having or showing a wish to do evil to others.
* Brusequeness : blunt in manner or speech often to the point of ungracious harshness was brusque with the customers.]]> 2017-03-30 19:13:31 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163811627 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163834273 *lived in perpetual fear of his firy temper
*]]> 2017-03-30 21:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163834273 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163835375 *lived in perpetual fear

Names]]> 2017-03-30 21:23:15 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163835375 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163836363 () Fear (pg 13) QUOTE: "But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of  failure and  of weakness.
      - "It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic..."
       - "...the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw."
[] forces of nature: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Fires, Gravity, Tsunamis, etc.
- "Okonkwo's fear was greater than these."
          *Not external
          *Lay deep within himself
FEAR OF WHAT ? ?
          *Fear of himself
          *Fear of resembling his father
            (SEE ANALYSIS #1)


]]> 2017-03-30 21:30:07 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163836363 moorem81 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163959583 _]]> 2017-03-31 13:20:32 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163959583 abramss1 https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163969577 Belief that there is one creator, God, also called Chineke or Chukwu.

The creator can be approached through numerous other deities and spirits in the form of natural objects, most commonly through the God of thunder. (Amadioha]]> 2017-03-31 13:50:50 UTC https://padlet.com/moorem81/svvs4ryg4786/wish/163969577