"No," replied Ekwefi. "His shell was broken into pieces. But there was a great medicine man in the neighborhood. Tortoise's wife sent for him and he gathered all the bits of shell and stuck them together. That is why a tortoise's shell is not smooth." p.g.99
I think it is cool how different cultures have different stories or legends of how things in the world came to be . This story for instance is Okonkwo's culture's way of explaining why a tortoise's shell is not smooth. It is people's way of explaining things they do not understand like different civilizations creations stories and stuff like that.
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