All 5 Uses of
beget
in
Things Fall Apart
- Do you know how many children I have buried--children I begot in my youth and strength?
p. 135.5begot = fathered (produced through sexual reproduction)
- How then could he have begotten a son like Nwoye, degenerate and effeminate?
p. 153.5 *
- How could he have begotten a woman for a son?
p. 153.8
- Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.
p. 153.9begets = produces
- But two years later when a son was born he called him Nwofia— "Begotten in the Wilderness."
p. 162.9begotten = fathered (produced through sexual reproduction)
Definition:
to cause something -- especially to make children