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Felton Pierre Candidate #- World Literature Assignment 2C: Formal Essay, based on Things Fall Apart Ezinma: Ogbanje Spirit, Human Heart Achebe characterizes Ezinma as an ogbanje child so as to symbolize the link between the spiritual world and the human world, and its impact on character relations within the novel. Ezinma's story allows Achebe to describe the ogbanje as a phenomenon of traditional Igbo life. Considered a "living dead," the ogbanje cycles back and forth between the worlds of humans and spirits. Alive for only a few years, the troublesome child can continue the cycle indefinitely. But Ezinma's ogbanje nature can only partly explain her prominence in the novel, since Achebe does not present her as merely a cultural "artifact." Rather she develops, as do most literary characters, by means of the relationships she has with the people around her. And appropriately, her relationships with Ekwefi, Chielo, and Okonkwo are mutually significant...

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