Things Fall Apart - Nwoye Flashcards
(8 cards)
Nwoye
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.
Nwoye
If he {Nwooye} was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
Nwoye
A chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches. I have done my best to make Nwoye grow into a man, but there is too much of his mother in him.
Nwoye
Now that [Okonkwo] had time to think of it, his son’s crime stood out in its stark enormity. To abandon the gods of one’s father and go about with a lot of effeminate men clucking like old hens was the very depth of abomination.
Nwoye
As soon as his father walked in, that night, Nwoye knew that Ikemefuna had been killed, and something seemed to give way inside him, like the snapping of a tightened bow. He did not cry. He just hung limp.
Nwoye
Nwoye had heard that twins were put in earthenware pots and thrown away in the forest, but he had never yet come across them. A vague chill had descended on him…Then something had given way inside him. It descended on him again, this feeling, when his father walked in, that night after killing Ikemefuna.
Nwoye
It was the poetry of the new religion, something felt in the marrow. The hymn about brothers who sat in darkness and in fear seemed to answer a vague and persistent question that haunted his young soul—the question of the twins crying in the bush and the question of Ikemefuna who was killed.
Nwoye
He felt a relief within as the hymn poured into his parched soul. The words of the hymn were like the drops of frozen rain melting on the dry palate of the panting earth.
