SUMMARYCHAPTERS 7 - 13

Ikemefuna lived with Okwonkwo´s family for 3 years, until Okwonkwo kill him. He help Nwoye to be responsible and more masculine, he was like a guide to him. The time came when Gods told Okwonko that it was time to kill Him. After that, Okwonkwo said to Ikemefuna that he needed to return back to his village. When they were on their way, a man came out and hit him with a machete; Ikemefuna was in such a deep pain and Okwonko started feeling pity for him. As Okwonko didn’t want anyone to realize that he had feelings for Ikemefuna, he finally killed him himself.

After killing Ikemefuna, Okwonkwo fell in a deep depression. He went to visit Obierika, she was looking for her future son-in-law. Okwonkwo started feeling better day by day.

Days pass Enzima started feeling very sick, she´s Ekwefi´s only child. A medicine man told them that an “ogbanje” which is like a wicked child, was the cause of her illness.  Days later the village holded the “egwugwu”; this ceremony consist, the men got masked and they emerged from a secret house where women are not allowed and it´s an spiritual ceremony were ancestral spirits came.

Meanwhile Enzima´s mother, Ekwefi started to tell her daughter a story about a tortoise and other birds.  Chielo came to inform Ekwefi and Okwonkwo that the God of the hills and caves Oracle wanted to see Enzima. The mother followed Chielo to the cave with the intention to save her daughter even against the Gods. Okwonkwo arrived with a machete and calmed her.

At dawn, Chielo took Enzima back from the cave. Okwonkwo was really worried. It was time for Okwonkwo´s family to prepare Obierika´s daughter´s Uri the Betrothat Ceremony in which all the village will help with food and the mother got a coat. But there was an interruption when a woman was running after a cow.

Finally, the dead of the elder Ezeudu was announced with a musical instrument called “ekwe”, this for the other villages to know it. At the ceremony which is a big funeral men usually beat drums and fire their guns. Okwonkwo accidentally killed one of Ezudu´s  childen with his gun. As this is a crime, Okwonkwo was exhilated with all his family and they went to Mbanta.