English TFA quotes

• 'Whenever he could not get his words out quickly enough he would use his fists'
• 'he was afraid of being thought weak'
• 'Father they have killed me'
• Weak of peace 'he beat her heavily'
• 'Although Okonkwo was still young he was already one of the greatest men of his time'
• 'Well known throughout the nine villages and beyond'
• 'That year had been enough to break the heart of a lion'
• 'Since I survived that year, I shall survive anything'
• 'Should have been a boy'
• 'Sprang from his bed' and 'ran into Ekwefi's hut'
• 'Okonkwo gave her a sound beating'
• 'He pressed the trigger'
• 'Anger and thirst for blood'
• 'Taking five heads'
• 'Was the first in many years that a man had broken the sacred peace'
• 'One could almost write a full chapter on him'
• 'That was one of the greatest men in Umuofia. You drove him to kill himself'
• 'Umuofia has decided to kill him, the oracle of the Hills and caves has pronounced it'
• 'The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her messenger'
• 'When a man says yes, his chi says yes also'
• 'Should have been a boy'
• 'Wiser than her years'
• 'Sat by her father'
• 'Ogbanje' - 'A child who has come to the world only to die, only to return to it's mother to be born again'
• 'Crystal of beauty'
• Onoka 'he was in fact a caward and could not bear the sight of blood'
• Traditions 'He who brings kola brings life'
• Okonkwo, Violence 'He drank his palm wine from his first human head'
• Power, reputation, fear 'Umuofia was feared by all its neighbours. It was powerful in war and magic'
• Domestic violence 'Okonkwo ruled his household with a heavy hand'
• Okonkwo, expectations, masculinity, Unoko 'His whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness'
• Nwoye, expectations 'his incipient laziness'...'a sad-faced youth'
• Status, masculinity, culture 'Yam, the king of crops, was a man's crop'
• Ezinma, Okonkwo 'Okonkwo was specially fond of Ezinma'
• Masculinity, Expectations 'If he was unable to rule his wife and children ... he was not really a man'
• Nwoye, Unoka, against stereotypical man, hymns relate to Christianity 'Whenever Nwoye's mother sang this song he felt himself carried away'
• 'Okonkwo was not a man of thought but of action'
• 'just ripe for marriage'
• 'Ezinma was an only child and the centre of her mother's world'
• 'Abame had been wiped out... a white man had appeared... riding an iron horse, they were locusts.'