All 15 Uses of
exile
in
Things Fall Apart
- He is an exile, condemned for seven years to live in a strange land.
p. 133.5exile = one forced to live outside one's homeland
- But if you allow sorrow to weigh you down and kill you they will all die in exile.
p. 134.9exile = a state of being forced to live outside one's homeland
- It was in the second year of Okonkwo's exile that his friend, Obierika, came to visit him.
p. 136.1exile = state of being forced to live outside of one's homeland
- When nearly two years later Obierika paid another visit to his friend in exile the circumstances were less happy.
p. 143.1exile = a state of being forced to live outside of one's homeland
- For how else could he explain his great misfortune and exile and now his despicable son's behaviour?
p. 152.9exile = being forced to live outside of one's homeland
- And so he regretted every day of his exile.
p. 162.7exile = state of being forced to live outside one's homeland
- He had called the first child born to him in exile Nneka— "Mother is Supreme"—out of politeness to his mother's kinsmen.
p. 162.8exile = a state of being forced to live outside of one's homeland
- As soon as he entered his last year in exile Okonkwo sent money to Obierika to build him two huts in his old compound where he and his family would live until he built more huts and the outside wall of his compound.
p. 162.9
- Even in his first year in exile he had begun to plan for his return.
p. 171.7exile = a state of being forced to live outside of one's home country
- As the years of exile passed one by one it seemed to him that his chi might now be making amends for the past disaster.
p. 172.1exile = being forced to live outside of one's home country
- Ezinma grew up in her father's exile and became one of the most beautiful girls in Mbanta.
p. 172.9exile = time of being forced to live outside of one's homeland
- Umuofia had indeed changed during the seven years Okonkwo had been in exile.
p. 174.0exile = a state of being forced to live outside of one's homeland
- The clan had undergone such profound change during his exile that it was barely recognizable.
p. 182.9 *exile = state of being forced to live outside one's homeland
- The times which had altered so unaccountably during his exile seemed to be coming round again.
p. 192.1
- The bitterness in his heart was now mixed with a kind of childlike excitement, before he had gone to bed he had brought down his war dress, which he had not touched since his return from exile.
p. 199.7exile = being forced to live outside one's homeland
Definition:
to force someone to live outside of their homeland; or living in such a condition
or more rarely: voluntary absence from a place someone would rather be
or more rarely: voluntary absence from a place someone would rather be