What Did Okonkwo Do When Chelo Took Ezinma Essay

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Chapters 11-13

1. What did Chielo want with Ezinma? Chielo wants to take Ezinma to see Agbala the Oracle, because she said that Agbala the Oracle wants to see Ezinma like an emergency case.

2. What did Ekwefi do? When Chielo said that Agbala the Oracle wants to see Ezinma, Ekwefi suggested that she will go too, but Chielo cursed what she suggested saying that “how dare Ekwefi is to go before the mighty Agbala of her own accord?”. Ekwefi allowed that Chielo took Ezinma with Agbala, but when they leaved a stranger and sudden weakness descended on Ekwefi as she stood gazing in direction of the voices and then after Chielo’s voice was disappearing she decided to follow Chielo and Ezinma to the cave of Agbala.

3. What did Okonkwo do when Chielo took Ezinma? When Chielo took Ezinma, Okonkwo went back to his hut, and when Ekwefi said to him that she will follow them, the
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7. Describe Ezeudu’s funeral. As he was a great man in the clan, the entire clan attended his funeral, it was a warrior’s funeral, from the morning to the night warriors came and went in their age group. Even sometimes an ancestral spirit appeared from the underworld speaking in a tremulous, unearthly voice and completely covered in raffia. Some of them were violent and one of them sang in a terrifying voice that Ekwensu, or Evil Spirit had entered his eye. In resume it was a great ceremony, filling of a lot of shouting, drums beating, and firing of guns. It was a great funeral such as befitted a noble warrior

8. How did the author describe a man’s life? A man’s life from birth to death was a series of transitions rites which brought him closer to death and his ancestors.

9. What happened during the frenzy? During the frenzy Okonkwo accidentally shot a boy, and the boy was Ezeudu's son who was sixteen years old.

10. What was the result of Okonkwo’s

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