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Summary: Chapter 12. At dawn, Chielo exits the shrine with Ezinma on her back. Without saying a word, she takes Ezinma to Ekwefi ’s hut and puts her to bed. It turns out that Okonkwo was extremely worried the night before, although he did not show it. He forced himself to wait a while before walking to the Oracle’s shrine.
- Chapters 14–16
Summary: Chapter 14. Okonkwo ’s uncle, Uchendu, and the rest...
- Chapters 14–16
Frightened, Okonkwo and Ekwefi try to persuade Chielo to wait until morning, but Chielo angrily reminds Okonkwo that he must not defy a god’s will. Chielo takes Ezinma on her back and forbids anyone to follow. Ekwefi overcomes her fear of divine punishment and follows anyway. Chielo, carrying Ezinma, makes her rounds of the nine villages.
The next morning, the neighborhood is celebrating Obierika's daughter's uri —the day on which her suitor brings palm-wine to her kinsmen. Women and children begin to gather to help the bride's mother cook for the whole village. Ekwefi is exhausted from the previous night. Chielo had crawled out of the shrine with Ezinma sleeping on her back ...
After Chielo took Ezinma away, Okonkwo was not able to sleep. He made several trips to the cave before he finally found and joined Ekwefi waiting outside the cave. When Chielo came out of Agbala's cave with Ezinma in the early morning hours, she ignored Okonkwo and Ekwefi and carried the sleeping Ezinma home to her bed, with the girl's parents following behind.
Summary: Chapter 14. Okonkwo ’s uncle, Uchendu, and the rest of his kinsmen receive him warmly. They help him build a new compound of huts and lend him yam seeds to start a farm. Soon, the rain that signals the beginning of the farming season arrives, in the unusual form of huge drops of hail.
Terrified of the priestess, Ezinma cries in fear, but she is forced to go with Chielo to Agbala's house in the sacred cave and hangs onto Chielo's back. As Ekwefi watches her only daughter leave, she decides to follow her. Following Chielo's chanting voice, Ekwefi runs through the forest in the dark. She finally catches up with them but keeps ...
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Things Fall Apart Summary and Analysis of Chapters 6-10. Chapter 6. Summary: A huge crowd gathers to watch the wrestling matches. Ekwefi finds herself next to Chielo, a widow with two children. Chielo is quite an ordinary woman in ordinary life. But she occupies a position of great power in the village: she is also the priestess of Agbala, the ...
