Both Uses of
torment
in
Things Fall Apart
- In that way she will elude her wicked tormentor and break its evil cycle of birth and death.†
p. 77.9 *tormentor = someone who causes great mental or physical suffering
- You buried it in the ground somewhere so that you can die and return again to torment your mother.†
p. 81.1torment = to cause or to experience great mental or physical suffering