Deep down Okonkwo really cares for the persons around him; however, caring was an attribute  of his father and he wants to be the complete opposite of him( he sees caring and showing feelings as womanly things)  thus  shows a lot of anger towards his family. • Okonkwo is a good father, although he beats his children and does not treat…

Much of the traditional Igbo life presented in this novel revolves around structured gender roles.   Essentially all of Igbo life is gendered, from the crops that men and women grow, to characterization of crimes. In Igbo culture, women are the weaker sex, but are also endowed with qualities that make them worthy of worship, like the ability to bear…

ust before the harvest, the village holds the Feast of the New Yam to give thanks to the earth goddess, Ani. Okonkwo doesn’t really care for feasts because he considers them times of idleness. The women thoroughly scrub and decorate their huts, throw away all of their unused yams from the previous year, and use cam wood to paint their…

Political Context • Approval of the entire clan is necessary before any major decision is made. • Egwugwu, the representative of the ancestral spirits, are integral in administering tribal justice. • Ndichie, the elders of the village, have a place of honour in the clan and their advice is respected. • The priests get their power from the Oracle, and…

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions set on it.   In the following extract, the narrator and her sister have come from New York to visit their grandmother, Da-duh, in the Caribbean. One morning toward the end of our stay, Da-duh led me into a part of the gully that we had never visited before, an area…