Ezinma Gets Sick

Ekwefi woke up Okonkwo early in the morning becauase she said Ezinma was dying. Since Okonkwo love Ezinma he runs to their hut and sees what is wrong with her. Ezinma was laying down shivering on a mat beside the fire. Ezinma was the center of her mother's world since she had lost all her other children a couple months after birth. The medicine man was trying to get them to leave Ezinma alone but they wouldn't because Okonkwo wanted to know were did she bury her iyi-uwa, which is a special kind of stone which forms the link between an obanje and the spirit world. Only if the iyi-uwa were discovered and destroyed would the child not die. So Okonkwo went out to the bush and came back with grasses, leaves and roots and barks of medicinal trees and shrubs. They cooked the medicine and let the steam overpower her face so she would not be sick anymore.