Things Fall Apart
Author: Chinua Achebe
Nationality: Nigerian
Genre: novel
Major Characters
Okonkwo: great wrestler, quick tempered, hates laziness & weakness; strives to not be
like his father; cannot accept change
Nwoye: Okonkwo's son, becomes a Christian
Ikemefuna: young boy taken as payment for Umuofian woman's murder; the Oracle orders his death; Okonkwo's foster son
Ekwefi: one of Okonkwo's wives, Ezinma's mother
Unoka: Okonkwo's father, lazy, in debt, dies in Evil Forest
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