Amongst all the deaths on this novel, Houdia M'Baye's was the one that
stroke me the most. After we see all the effort that Ramatoulaye puts into
finding food for Houdia and her baby so that they don't die of hunger, I find
it sad that she ends up dying but also to an extent ironic. After Ramatoulaye
devoted part of her time to keep them alive, they still end up dying.
"She is dead, and I am living. And everything I did was done so
that she and her baby would not die of hunger” (p126). In this quote
Ramatoulaye is basically ratifying what I just explained. She is vexed because
she feels like all of her efforts were in vain and she even says that she would
have preferred to be in Houdia’s place. Unlike in other countries, especially
nowadays, where people die all the time and only a couple of people seem to
care about it, since this was such a close community, everyone cared about each
other and there is this feeling of familiarity that makes Ramatoulaye feel even
worse than if it had been elsewhere.
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