What Is Okonkwo's Search For Ezimna

Here, Achebe writes about Okonkwo’s desperate search for Ezimna and Ekwefi on the night the priestess took Ezimna. Earlier in the novel on page nine, Achebe explains the fear and superstition that the Umuofian people have of the dark because of evil spirits. This establishes the uninviting and chilling conditions of the night. The author further develops tensions in this passage by using a simile to describe “the Hills and the Caves” (Achebe 112) as being “as silent as death” (112) when Okonkwo did not find Ezimna and Ekwefi. Okonkwo’s courage to search for them is driven by the fear of his daughter’s death and his ongoing remorse about the death of his son, Ikemefuna. By establishing this, Achebe aims to demonstrate that Okonkwo cares so