Ekwefi stood rooted to the spot. One mind said to her: "Woman, go home before Agbala does you harm." But she could not. She stood until Chielo had increased the distance between them and she began to follow again. She had already walked so long that she began to feel a slight numbness in the limbs and in the head.
This paragraph symbolizes a mother desperately struggling to save her daughter from the harm that she believes could happen to her, for this reason, she secretly goes after her daughter, regardless of the consequences. Ewkifi, a strong and risky woman, is filled with fear knowing that a woman is taking her daughter even though, with her consent, she decides to go above her husband OkonkwoI believe that any mother would make or give her life to protect and save her children. she did not care what the priestess said that something bad could happen if she continued and the voice that spoke to her advised her to return home, but she continued to the end and saw her daughter safe