Chapter 8 - Significance
Name: _________________________ Date: _____________
Consider the issues being discussed in the following excerpts and discuss their significance.
| |Okonkwo did not taste any food for two days after the death of Ikemefuna. He drank palm | |
| |wine from morning till night, and his eyes were red and fierce like the eyes of the rat | |
| |when it was caught by the tail and dashed against the floor … He did not sleep at night…| |
| |he was so weak that his legs could hardly carry him. He felt like a drunken giant | |
| |walking with the limbs of a mosquito. Now and then a cold shiver descended on his head | |
| |and spread down his body. | |
| |“When did you become a shivering old woman,” Okonkwo asked himself, “you, who are known | |
| |in all the nine villages for your valour in war? How can a man who has killed five men | |
| |in battle fall to pieces because he has added a boy to their number? Okonkwo, you have | |
| |become a woman...