CHAPTER 7(ONE OF THE GIRLS)
Chike’s father warned Chike several times about Aku-nna.But Chike said he would marry to her.And his father said when she became a woman he would go to her family and ask for her.Chike told this news to Aku-nna and promised to come her hut in three days’ time.
Three days later Chike was expected,Aku-nna and her friends all went out to look for firewood.While Aku-nna was trying to pull a wood it suddenly broke and she fell to the ground.She felt a pain in her back third time.But this time she couldn’t hide it and everybody learnt that she became a woman.Ogugua said her a lot of men wanted him(esp.Okoboshi-Aku-nna knows him from school and doesn’t like him-). She doesn’t want to marry but Okonkwo would make her marry quickly.Aku-nna was alone without her mother’s support because she was expecting a baby from Okonkwo. And she could never refuse anything to the father of her baby.