Body: The story starts out with Toundi and he is carrying a dying man, he feels a certain sadness. Toundi doesn’t understand why he is feeling sad for a man he doesn’t know or care about. The dying man says to Toundi “Brother, what are we? What are we blackmen who are French?” pg. 4 Toundi seems to not know the answer to this question, unfortunately he will never know the answer to this question. He fails to understand what is happening around him, until it is too late. His character refuses to see the changes and twisted lies people are telling him, or the scheme that is being run. How the European’s make fun of the little African children by watching them fight over sugar cubes. He does not recognize that the European’s think that the little African children fighting over sugar cubes is funny, it’s purely a game for them. “Still I am glad I’m dying well away from where they are. My mother always used to say what my greediness would bring me in the end… If I had known it would
Body: The story starts out with Toundi and he is carrying a dying man, he feels a certain sadness. Toundi doesn’t understand why he is feeling sad for a man he doesn’t know or care about. The dying man says to Toundi “Brother, what are we? What are we blackmen who are French?” pg. 4 Toundi seems to not know the answer to this question, unfortunately he will never know the answer to this question. He fails to understand what is happening around him, until it is too late. His character refuses to see the changes and twisted lies people are telling him, or the scheme that is being run. How the European’s make fun of the little African children by watching them fight over sugar cubes. He does not recognize that the European’s think that the little African children fighting over sugar cubes is funny, it’s purely a game for them. “Still I am glad I’m dying well away from where they are. My mother always used to say what my greediness would bring me in the end… If I had known it would