Journal Entery

Date: August 2, 2007

Entery Number: 21

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pgs. 81-85

It's kind of interesting and funny too, how Ezinma led a crowd of people, both family and friends, Okonkwo, and a medicine man around part of the village in a big circle as they were looking for her iyi-uwa. She was reluctant to give it up but she did in the end. At first she played stupid, "What is iyi-uwa?" she asks. But then she tells them she buried it in the place where they bury children. As they start walking, where she should have turned off to go to the grave yard, she turned the opposite way in the direction of the stream. Then she started leading the crowd into the bush, which is composed of littlish trees I'm guessing because it says that because she was smaller than the rest she could make her way around better than the others. Then she stops and back tracks and goes back to the road then back home. A couple of times throughout this whole thing Okonkwo gets mad and threatens to beat her but the medicine man serves as Ezinma's protection and tells him to leave her alone. Running around in circles wasn't the only thing Ezinma had in store for Okonkwo or the medicine man. She then brings them over to an orange tree and tells them it is here pointing to the ground. It's funny though, because Okonkwo gets mad again but throughout everything he can't do anything about it because he wants to find the stone and the medicine man keeps telling him to leave her alone. Well anyway. The medicine man starts working on digging and later Okonkwo joined him. While they were slaving in the sun and dirt to find this stone, Ezinma was inside happily helping her mother make food. Isn't it great. Well anyway they ended up finding it after digging so deep you couldn't even see them anymore. It's funny though, when the medicine man flung the rag that contained the stone up out of the "well" all the women ran away but came back but still at a reasonable distance to see what was happening. They destroyed the stone and Ezinma was released from the ogbanje cycle of life and death. Ezinma is one of my favorite characters because she has a very interesting character. It's funny how she led them through all that and then had them dig for a stone which was actually a pebble. It was a special important pebble but still, I get a kick out of it. She's a pretty smart girl.