Chapter Eleven

Chapter eleven started off with Ekwefi telling Ezinma a story about a tortoise and birds. The birds were having a feast in the sky, and tortoise wanted to go. The birds did not want to let him because he was known for being cunning and ungrateful, hmm… whose that sound like…Okonkwo, not mentioning names or anything. But anyhow, the tortoise told them that he had change, so they let him go. Each bird gave him a feather, and they all flew up into the sky. To make a long story short, the tortoise betrayed them, so all the birds took back their feathers and left him in the sky. The last bird was asked to make a visit to tortoise’s wife and tell her to lay all the soft things out so that he could jump from the sky. The bird told him to put all the hard things out, the tortoise could not see that all the stuff was hard, and figured it was soft, so he jumped. He shattered his shell, but a medicine man fixed him up, and that is why tortoises have rough shells. Like I said earlier, who dos this kind of sound like… Okonkwo. He seems to be ungrateful, and cunning. I also feel that he is going to fall in his society and ruin his good name.
The chapter also shows that Okonwo does worry and have a good heart in him; he just doesn’t show the emotions openly. Chielo, the priestess came for Ezinma, and took her to the Oracle's cave where Agbala, the god, wanted to see her. The Okonwo and Ekwefi were told not to follow, but both, including Okonkwo, did anyhow out of worry for Ezinma. In the end she was brought home safe and sound by Chielo.