Week 3 Post B

In this section of reading the author spent most of the time desribing the Nigerian airport and the emotions running through the minds of Sade and Femi as they were beginning their depressing journey away from their home and family to seek safety in London, which is a mysterious place to them. The children are still shocked and are stuggling to recover from the death of their mother.

I found it unique and interesting how the author incorporates point of view in her style of writing. She writes in a third person perspective, but describes things in the eyes of whoever she is talking about..."Ahead of them, a woman in a blue uniform was sweeping a thick black rod up and down people who had stepped through a metal door frame. It looked like some magic ritual" (74). This is the author(narrator) describing the scene in a third person point of view, but pretends to be unaware of what exactly the security person was doing, which means she is describing it in the eyes of Sade and Femi.

"It had been one of Sade's dreams to travel on an airplane. Papa and Mama had promised they would take them one day. But it was not meant to be like this. Tonight she was spinning into the darkness of space, let loose from almost everything and everyone she knew, except Femi. And he too was slipping from her fingers" (80).

This displays the misery Sade is suffering. She can't even enjoy the experience of riding an airplane for the first time, but more importantly she is being forced to leave everything behind, including her family and travel to a mysterious place.