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Achebs the first to learn about new releases! Follow Author. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place. 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 like read more. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what A Dead Mans Path By Chinua Achebe need - is something I have to find out myself. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own Deda. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: "He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down. But when a father beats his child, it seeks sympathy in its mother's hut. 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.

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Your mother is there to protect you. She is buried there. And that is why we say that mother is supreme. Is it right that you, Okonkwo, should bring your mother a heavy face and refuse to be comforted? Be careful or you may displease the dead. Manns duty is to comfort your wives and children and take them back to your fatherland after seven years.

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But if you allow sorrow to weigh you down and kill you, they will all die in exile. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.

But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, Ahebe in tooth and claw.

It was not external but lay deep within himself. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone. All Quotes Add A Quote. Books by Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apartratings.

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