![]() ![]() He was tall and huge, and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose gave him a very severe look. ![]() That was many years ago, twenty years or more, and during this time Okonkwo's fame had grown like a bush-fire in the harmattan. Every nerve and every muscle stood out in their arms, on their backs and their thighs, and one almost heard them stretching to breaking point. Amalinze was a wilsy craftsman, but Okonkwo was as slippery as a a fish in the water. The drums beat and the flutes sang and the spectators held their breath. It was this man that Okonkwo threw in a fight which the old men agreed was one of the fiercest since the founder of heir town engaged a spirit of the wild for seven days and seven nights. He was called the cat because his back would never touch the earth. Amalinze was the great wrestler who for seven years was unbeaten, from Umuofia to Mbaino. As a young man of eighteen he had brought honor to his village by throwing Amalinze the Cat. ![]() His fame rested on solid personal achievements. Yeats, "The Second Coming" Okonkwo was well known through the nine villages and even beyond. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things Fall Apart the centre cannot hold Mere anarchy loosed upon the world. ![]()
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