Lightning - “Vengeful Creditor”
The cashier at the supermarket archives Mrs. Emenike’s acquisitions in the computer system expeditiously: “She punched the prices as fast as lightning and announced the verdict.” She is adroit at her trade for the express typing suggests that the queuing interval at the supermarket is fleeting.
Lizard - “Vengeful Creditor”
The minster expounds a case to counter the institution of new taxes to sponsor the “free primary education”: “Mr. Emenike who has an unrestrainable admiration for the Finance Minister and had been nodding like a lizard through the speech.” People would not readily contribute taxes in the same ways as they emolument school fees. Mr. Emenike’s Lizard-like nodding supposes that he intensely acquiesces with the finance minister’s claims.
“Drum and mirror”- “Vengeful Creditor”
Mary and her siblings are undernourished as their principal meals do not typify a stable diet: “ But even after the food and the kernels and grasshoppers and bowl of water Mary was rarely satisfied, even though her belly would be big and tight like a drum and shine like a mirror.” The tautness and bigness of the belly does not signify satisfaction. Mary’s anomalous hunger hints at Prader Willi Syndrome. However, the family’s financial position would not assure her the fitting medical care.
Shadow - “Vengeful Creditor”
Mrs. Emenike terrifies and intimidates Veronica when he discovers that she has smeared her lip and nails red with her husband’s ink: “Throughout the rest of that afternoon she walked about like a shadow.” Mrs. Emenike articulates that the ink is lethal ; thus, it would terminate her existence. Veronica’s fright prompts her shadow-like movement because she has never been startled like that ever since she started working at the Emenike’s household.
Queen - “Dead Men’s Path”
Michael Obi predicts that she will be looked upon as the Queen at Ndume Central School. Achebe elucidates," She began to see herself already as the admired wife of the young headmaster, the queen of the school.” The wife holds that being the head teacher’s spouse will bequeath her supremacy akin to a monarchy's. Her reasoning implies that she will have a preferential spot in the pecking order of the school because of her relations to the head teacher.
