Things Fall Apart
Snemalna Knjiga Besedilo
- Chapter 1 (page 8)
- Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”
- Chapter 1 (page 6)
- Among the Ibo, the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and the proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten.
- Chapter 2 (page 9)
- Dangerous animals became even more sinister and uncanny in the dark. A snake was never called by its name at night because it would hear. It was called a string.
- This connects with the language theme because it reflects how the Igbo clan would always have a hierarchy with the elders and teach the younger people how to respect elders by telling them proverbs from their history.
- Chapter 25 (206)
- One of the most infuriating habits of these people was their love for superfluous words, he thought”
- This shows how proverbs are important to the Ibo people and help teach the children lessons and more about what they value
- Chapter 4 (page 23)
- But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly, so his chi agreed.”
- 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. That was how Okonkwo first came to know that agbala was not only another name for a woman, it could also mean a man who had taken no title. 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.
- The language used here is to reinforce the superstitions of their culture and religion.
- Chapter 6 (page 13)
- The white men don’t value proverbs unlike the Ibo people and cause them to sometimes misunderstand the Umuofians
- This connects to the language theme because it is showing another one of the Igbo people’s proverbs for why Okonkwo has been so successful.
- Language connects to this quote because the author gives an example of Okonkwo’s harsh way of him organizing his family and now his family and son want to distance themselves from him.
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