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Compare and contrast
Okonkwo to his father, Unoka.
How are they similar? How are they different?
1.”Unlike his father he could stand the look of blood”
2. ”With a father like Unoka,
Okonkwo did not have the start in life which many young men had
3.”Unoka was an ill fated man”.
1 .Okonkwo could stand violence and blood but his father could not.
2. Okonkwo had a hard start to life like his father but other young men had a somewhat good start to life.
3. Unoka owed a lot of debts and was in poverty but
Okonkwo became wealthy from a wrestling match.
What is the role of religion in 1.”The Feast of the New Yam 1. There was a feast in

Igbo culture?
was approaching and Umuofia was in a festival mood. It was an occasion for giving thanks to
Ani, the earth goddess and the source of all fertility.
2.’Their clan is full of the evil spirits of these unburied dead, hungry to do harm to the living.
3.”No work was done during the
Week of Peace.
Umuofia that gave thanks to
Ani which is their earth goddess for giving them fertility.
2.If dead people get cast to the Evil Forest without burial, they will haunt the clan and try to do harm to the living.
3. During the Week of Peace, there was no work done and it was a violation to harm a person during this Week of
Peace.
How are arguments dealt with in Umuofia?
1. Talking it out and eating kola nut
2.”An ultimatum was immediately dispatched to
Mbiano 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”.
3.”Umofia it should be recorded that it never went to war unless its case was clear and just and was accepted as such by its
Oracle”
1. Okoye came to Unoka with kola nut to talk to him about the debts he owes him.
2.The village can either choose to go to war over an argument or to offer a young man and a virgin as compensation.
3.When the people of Umofia had a dispute, they went to the
Oracle of the Hills and Caves and the Oracle decided their fate.
Pick a character from chapters 1-8. What type of character is he/ she?
1.”Okonkwo ruled his household with a heavy hand.
2.”Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and beyond.
3.”Okonkwo drew his machete and cut him down. He was afraid of being thought weak.
1. Okonkwo was strict in his household and some of his wives and children lived in fear.
2.Okonkwo was well known for his wrestling match and was considered a sort of celebrity.
3.Okonkwo was afraid of being humiliated or considered weak and he was so afraid of

What is Okonkwo's relationship with his son,
Nwoye, like?
this that he killed Ikemefuna.
1.”He called his son, Nwoye, to sit with him in his obi. But the boy was afraid of him and slipped out of the hut as soon as he noticed him dozing.”
2.Nwoye, was then twelve years old but was already causing his father great anxiety for his incipient laziness.
3.”Nwoye knew that it was right to be masculine and to be violent, but somehow he still preferred the stories that his mother used to tell”.
1.Nwoye was afraid of his father after he killed
Ikemefuna and he tried to stay away from him at all times.
2.Nyoye caused his father anxiety even though he was still young and the reason of why his father had anxiety is because Nwoye was lazy.
3.Nwoye knew that his father wanted him to be masculine because of the stories he told but he still liked his mother’s stories better.