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All these classes of people are projected and clearly differentiated in the novel by means of language. For example, while the speeches of the native elders are laced by idioms, proverbs, speech initiators, local address forms etc, all these linguistics features are totally absent in the speeches of the white man. A work of literary arts consists of several heterogeneous stylistic features located at different linguistic levels.
By using language creatively, the literary artist brings their perception, philosophy, worldviews and sensation to bear in a literary work, with a view to accomplishing specific artistic and aesthetic purposes. A linguistic feature has an effect if its pattern of occurrence is such that it displays some striking uniqueness in its contribution to the content and form of the text. And proverbs had major effects on Things Fall Apart. His emphasis, therefore, is that proverbs are an essential ingredient of the art of conversation among Igbo people; a veritable component of their linguistic repertoire.
Just as the roasted or boiled yams taste better or sweeter when eaten with palm oil, so is conversation sweeter and more edifying when laced with proverbs. From Things Fall Apart , it is not only evident that proverbs are a component of Igbo linguistic features.
Achebe suggests proverbs are also used as a device with specific effects: they help in defining characters, clarifying issues not overtly stated and enriching the process of conversation. We shall all live. We pray for life, children, good harvest and happiness.
You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to another, let its wing break. Here, Nwakibie is praying for good things for all. In the proverb, he is saying that the sky is wide enough to accommodate all birds, both the weak and the strong, adding that anyone who says the other should not perch or rest, shall be incapacitated.
This brings to mind the popular saying that whosoever digs a pit of death for his fellow man shall die in it. Clearly Nwakibie believes in the spirit of communal living and every citizen has the freedom to aspire to any position in the society. Anybody who does not want the progress of his kinsman is regarded as evil who must not be allowed to live.
There must be something wrong with it; he said wiping the foam of wine from his moustache with the back of his hand. There must be a reason for it. A toad does not run in the day time for nothing. Describing Obiako as a strange man, Nwakibie says that at one time, Obiako had gone to consult the oracle who told him that his dead father wanted him to sacrifice a goat for him. In response, Obiako had said to the diviner:.
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. I have come to you for help; he said. Perhaps you can already guess what it is. I have cleared a farm but have no yams to sow. I know what it is to ask a man to trust another with his yams, especially these days when young men are afraid of hard work.
The lizard who jumped from the high iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no one else did. If you give me some yam seeds, I shall not fail you.
The proverb about the lizard not only coveys a message for Okonkwo, it also evinces his character and personality. Through the proverb, Okonkwosays that he would praise himself having, despite all odds, accomplished fame and fortune. Date: The researcher went through proverb and displayed all the proverbs in the novel Things Fall Apart then the researcher explains the literal meaning and the actual meaning for every proverb by its own and finally the researcher elaborate why does the author is used to use proverb in his writing so the researcher arrived at the following results first ; using proverb in the novel gives the surrounding environment so audience can imagine more about the place where the novel takes place.
Second; using proverbs serve language aspects by specific meaning. Third; using proverb has psychological matters. For what had mentioned above that is clear using proverb has significance in the African literature. We may sometimes not understand a big lecture but we understand a small proverb very easily because the truth they speak can span the globe.
They can also give a greater potency to what is being conveyed. When kids wash their hands? Basically, this one means that proverbs are an essentially words of wisdom. In the Umuofian society, if you are able to remove the footprint of your ancestors, you would be able to aspire to anyone you wished in the society. What does it mean An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb?
Works Cited: What this proverb means is that the old woman is uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in proverbs because bones dry when death occurs. This could also mean that when negative aspects or features of someone are mentioned they feel uneasy or uncomfortable. How is foreshadowing used in things fall apart? An example of foreshadowing in the novel Things fall apart would be " The ill-fated lad was called Ikemefuna" Achebe 6.
This quote suggests that in the future bad things will happen to Ikemefuna or that he is destined to fail. What is the main idea of things fall apart? Major Themes. Things Fall Apart is a book that contains a ton of ideas, but three of the big ones are manliness, tradition, and fate. Okonkwo grows up very concerned about being a man, probably because his father was such a loser. The Ibo measure a man by his yams, wives, titles, and accomplishments in war.
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