Transcript Essay Tips from The Bean Trees

Review for TFA
Names from TFA
• Ani: earth goddess
• Ekwefi: beaten by Okonkwo for saying the
banana tree was not dead. Also shot at by
Okonkwo for saying what a bad shot he was.
• Ezinma: Ekwefi’s only daughter
• “IS that me?”
• Ilo: village square
• Wrestling match: drums begin at noon, but wrestling
at sunset
– Real match was last
– Two teams of 12 wrestlers
– Last match between the two leaders
• Cheilo: priestess of Oracle of The Hills
how is she different in ordinary life?
• Ezedu: Oldest man in Umuofia. Warns Okonkwo not to help in the
killing of Ikemefuna.
•Twins: considered evil. Placed in forest to die.
Why does Okonkwo kill Ikemefuna?
• How has he gone against his people and
their traditions?
• How has he gone against himself?
• How is he juxtaposed with Nwoye in this
incident?
Role of women?
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THey decorate the huts
Tell stories
Help each other
Bride price (does it show value or devaluation
of women?)
• Ekwefi ran away from first husband. What
does this tell us about women and their
rights?
Chapter 7
• Gender roles: 53
• Man expected to rule his women and childen
• What were the different stories men and women
told?
• Which do Nwoye prefer? Who is he like?
• Who builds the walls and repairs them?
• Women collect firewood.
For Monday
• Read Chapters 10-11
• Choose two quotes from chapter 8 and
explain their significance
• Answer questions about egwugwu ceremony
• Look up vocab words for quiz next Friday
Foreshadowing of Locusts
• Snapping
Vocabulary
• 1. Amiss: something is amiss. Some thing is
incorrect or wrong.
• 2. esoteric: mysterious, understanding
belongs only to a select few.
• 3. Submission: complience; yielding to
another
• 4. resignation: acceptance
• 5. notorious: known for unflattering reasons
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6. profound: thoughtful, deept
7. delectable: delicious
8. vigor: vitality; great strength
9. tumult: noisy commotion
10. inadvertent: unintended, careless
White Man
• Why no toes?
• Have they seen white men before?
Terms:
• Foil: character used as contrast to another.
• Iyi-uwa a special kind of stone that links
ogbanje and the spirit world. Only if the iyi
is found and destroyed will will child live.
• Ogbanji: Changling. Spirit child who
repeatedly dies and returns to its mother to
be reborn.
• Obierika: friend and foil to Okonkwo
p. 83 Story of Snake
• What is the moral?
• Justice-don’t be so quick to accuse others.
Trial:Uzowulo vs. Mgbafo
• The nine eggwugwu represent one of the nine
villages in the clan
• Ancestral Spirits
• Evil Forest: I Kill a man on the day that his life
is sweetest.”
– Why is it sweetest?
Act out pa.89-94
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Class plays egwugwu
Evil Forest
Uzowulo
Odukwe ( Mgbafo’s brother)
Mgbafo: (No lines)
Is the verdict Just?
• What do we learn about their system of
justice?
– Community is involved
– Children belong to man
– For the good of the children the woman was
returned
– Why do the elders think this is case is a trifle?
Story of tortoise
• How might it foreshadow the arrival of the
white man?
What do we learn from Okonwo’s
behavior in chapter 11?
• How is it different from his public face?
Bethrothal (Uri) of Obierika’s daughter
• Dowry?
• Action of community when goat gets loose?
• Singers compliment Okonkwo so does elder.
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Chapter 13
Ezeudu’s death
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3 titles
Explosion of gun: why both male and female?
Why was he exiled?
Why is compound destroyed?
What does Obierika think about at the end of
chapter? (P. 125)
Know for test: Check your glossary
handout or the back of your book
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Ani
Ibo
Chi
Obi
Iyi-uwa
Egwugwu
Ogbanji
Uri
Fadenya
Badenya
Agbala
Characters to know
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A. Ezinma
B Okonkwo
C. Evil Forest
D. Unoka
E. Ikemefuna
F. Nwoye
G. Tortoise
H. Obierika
I. Ezeudu
J. Ekwefi