Aminata's Life: A Personal Experience Of Dwelling
Our experiences and the way we react to them shape who we become. Dwelling on a particular event will not help us succeed in life; whether the event be positive or negative. “Turn your mind from the ship, child. It is nothing but a rotting carcass in the grass. The carcass has shocked you with its stink and its flies. But you have walked past it, already, and now you must keep walking” (122). There are events in our lives that will shock us and leave us unsure of what to do, or whether we should keep moving on. These thoughts should not hold us back, as the answer is always to keep moving on; the hardest parts do not last.
“Turn your mind from the ship, child. It is nothing but a rotting carcass in the grass. The carcass has shocked you with …show more content…
She endured many things that no child should endure. She suffered awful abuse and torture from her captors from the time she was taken and throughout her journey. She nearly died from upon her arrival on the island, as she had suffered so much that she was very weak. After she recovered she was raped by her master, Appleby, for seeing Chekura in private. Eventually, she had a baby with Chekura, but Appleby stole him from her and sold him into slavery. All of these experiences would have taken a toll on Aminata and had she dwelled on them, she never would have survived. Instead, she continued to fight her way through and move past all the negative things that happened to …show more content…
These experiences were things that no human, let alone a child, should have to experience. Many would have just given up during any one of these events, but Aminata was a fighter. Biton’s wise words taught her not to dwell and she kept walking for many, many years despite the horrors she experienced. This is not to say that she forgets her past, as to forget would mean not to have learned from her experiences. Throughout Book One and Book Two, Aminata often things about her home village, as well as her parents and Chekura. There was only more to come for her in her future, but her knowledge and her courage kept her going. She would not let her past drag her down, despite how awful parts of it may have
“Turn your mind from the ship, child. It is nothing but a rotting carcass in the grass. The carcass has shocked you with …show more content…
She endured many things that no child should endure. She suffered awful abuse and torture from her captors from the time she was taken and throughout her journey. She nearly died from upon her arrival on the island, as she had suffered so much that she was very weak. After she recovered she was raped by her master, Appleby, for seeing Chekura in private. Eventually, she had a baby with Chekura, but Appleby stole him from her and sold him into slavery. All of these experiences would have taken a toll on Aminata and had she dwelled on them, she never would have survived. Instead, she continued to fight her way through and move past all the negative things that happened to …show more content…
These experiences were things that no human, let alone a child, should have to experience. Many would have just given up during any one of these events, but Aminata was a fighter. Biton’s wise words taught her not to dwell and she kept walking for many, many years despite the horrors she experienced. This is not to say that she forgets her past, as to forget would mean not to have learned from her experiences. Throughout Book One and Book Two, Aminata often things about her home village, as well as her parents and Chekura. There was only more to come for her in her future, but her knowledge and her courage kept her going. She would not let her past drag her down, despite how awful parts of it may have