Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Chapter Eleven
What can i say. the oracle is posessed by something to have the strength to carry a girl completely around the village at a run. Chanting the whole time and never running out of breath, there is no way the woman is that strong. she seems like a berserker from a viking legend, except she isnt fighting anything. i wonder if she really believes what she says in her curses and threats and blessings. i suppose she must, otherwise she wouldnt act like she does. I wonder could she be trying to hewlp Ezinma? maybe ezinma is going to be trained to be the next oracle. Whatever the case, I doubt the oracle is going to be happy that okonkwo and Ekwefi are waiting outside the cave in the morning.
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It wasn't the Oracle that fetched the girl. It was a messenger. It seems the Oracle is super special in this culture, just by the fact she can summon people in the dead of night.
We never do learn of this visit. What does the Oracle want with Ezinma? Does she tell her something? Achebe leaves us in the dark.
The next morning she is returned. I really thought she was to be sacrificed, but I was wrong.
Mr. Farrell
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