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Compare-Contrast Essay

Below is an excerpt from the text. What does this passage reveal to you about what may be some issues that will arise throughout the book?
"Is Anasi not in?" he asked them. They said she was coming. Anasi was the first wife and the others could not drink before her, and so they stood waiting.

Anasi was a middle-aged woman, tall and strongly built. There was authority in her bearing and she looked very inch the ruler of the womenfolk in a large and prosperous family. She wore the anklet of her husband's titles, which the first wife alone could wear.

She walked up to her husband and accepted the horn from him. She then went down on one knee, drank a little and handed back the horn. She rose, called him by his name and went back to her hut. The other wives drank in the same way, in their proper order, and went away.

The men then continued their drinking and talking. Ogbuefi Idigo was talking about the palm-wine tapper, Obiako, who suddenly gave up his trade.

"There must be something behind it," he said, wiping the foam of wine form his mustache with the back of his left hand. "There must be a reason for it. A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing."

"Some people say the Oracle warned him that he would fall off a palm tee and kill himself," said Akukalia.

"Obiako has always been a strange one," said Nwakibie. "I have heard that many years ago, when his father had not beed dead very long, he had gone to consult the Oracle. The Oracle said to him, 'Your dead father wants you to sacrifice a goat to him.' Do you know what he told the Oracle? He said, 'Ask my dead father if he ever had a fowl when he was alive,'" Everybody laughed heartily except Okonkwo, who laughed uneasily because, as the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb. Okonkwo remembered his own father.

- pg 20-21

====Below is an introductory "assessment" of what you do or do not know about our current novel. Copy and paste the information onto your own wiki and answer the questions individually. Once finished, consult a neighbor.====

1. This story takes place in Nigeria. Sketch the continent where it is located as well as the approximate location of that country.

2. In what year did Nigeria become an independent nation?

3. What is the country's primary source of income?

4. What are some current issues going on in Nigeria?

5. Which is not a primary food source for people in this region of the country? a) yams b) rice c) cassava d) beans

6. Which ethnic group does this story focus on? a) Hausa b) Fulani c) Yoruba d) Igbo

7. When was //Things Fall Apart// written?

8. What is the approximate time period in which //Things Fall Apart// is set?

9. Where did the author grow up?

10. List as much as you can about the author's life and why he is well known.