Chapter 6
  • Giant silk cotton tree which was sacred; spirits of good children lived in that tree waiting to be born. Pg 40
  • Ekwefi, second wife, told a women at the wrestling match about Okonkwo attempting to kill her.
  • Ezinma- Ekwefi's only child
  • Okafo, Ikezue- besy wrestlers of the villages (Okafo won the match)

Chapter 7
  • Nwoye would feign annoyance and grumble aloud about women and their troubles, Okonkwo liked this.
  • Story of Vulture- Whenever Nwoye's mother sang this song he felt carried away to the distant scene in the sky where Vulture, Earth's emissary, sang for mercy.
  • Harmattan season- cold, after the harvest was gathered.
  • Ikemefuna was killed by some men and Okonkwo after the Oracle of the Cave said so. Pg 52

Chapter 8
  • Okonkwo mourns the death of Ikemefuna pg. 54
  • Ogbuefi Ndule the oldest man in the village dies. pg 58
  • Obierka is Okonkwo's friend pg 55
  • They talk about the story of Ozoemena pg 58
  • Akueke, is Maduka's half sister pg 60
  • Jigida - Waste of beads pg 61
  • Akueke's bride-price was settled at twenty bags of cowries.
  • Amadi was a leper, and the polite name for leprosy was "the white skin"