Things Fall Apart Quotes/F.L. by Hannah Dentz on Prezi
Hannah Dentz and Josue Alba-Lopez
Chapter 17
"Let us give them a portion of the evil forest. They boast about victory over death. Let us give them a real battlefield in which to show their victory."
-Page 90 4th Paragaph
"Living fire begets cold, impotent ash."
-Page 93 Last Paragraph
Chapter 21
"Okonkwo was deeply grieved. And it was not just a personal grief. He mourned for the clan, which he saw breaking up and falling apart, and he mourned or the warlike men of Umuofia, who had so unaccountably become soft like women."
-Page 112, Last Paragraph
Chapter 13
"The faint and distant wailing of women settled like a sediment of sorrow on the earth."
-Page 72, 2nd Paragraph
"As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled the others."
-Page 75, 1st Paragraph
Chapter 14
"All the grass had long been scorched brown, and the sands felt like live coals to the feet."
-Page 79, 4th Paragraph
"A man belongs to his fatherland when things are good and life is sweet. But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland."
-Page 82, 4th Paragraph
Chapter 18
"He had called his first child born to him in exile Nneka- "Mother is Supreme" -out of politeness to his mother's kinsmen. But two years later when a son was born to him he called him Nwofia- "Begotten in the Wilderness."
-Page 99 Paragraph 2
"The rainbow began to appear, and sometimes two rainbows, like a mother and her daughter, the one young and beautiful, and the other an old and faint shadow."
-Page 99 Last Paragraph
Chapter 20
"The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act ike one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart."
Page 108 Paragraph 4
Chapter 16
"Evil men and all the heathens who in their blindness bowed to wood and stone were thrown into a fire that burned like palm-oil."
-Page 88 Top Paragraph
"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."
-Page 89 Last Paragraph
Chapter 22
"The band of egwugwu moved like a furious whirlwind to Enoch's compound and with machete and fire reduced it to a desolate heap. And from there they made for the church, intoxicated with destruction."
-Page 115 Paragraph 7
Chapter 24
"There was immediate silence as though cold water had been poured onto a roaring flame."
-Page 124 Last Paragraph
"Okonkwo stood looking at the dead man. He knew that Umuofia would not go to war. He knew because they had let the other messengers escape. They had broken into tumult instead of action."
-Page 126 Paragraph 4
Chapter 25
"He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought:
The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.
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Page 128 Last Paragraph
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