If You Want Your Meat, You're Going to Have to Kill it Yourself

Ramatoulaye has a drastic change from a timid, desperate woman into a ferocious woman. This change seems to happen very quickly, in the course of a day, but I think her new personality had been building up since the beginning of the strike. Like most other women and probably men in the town, she was fed up with continually making sacrifices for her family because of the Europeans and the strike. The day that she attacked Vendredi, I think all of her emotions bubbled over. This is significant because I think this is the start of a ripple effect throughout the entire town of people acting out like Ramatoulaye. Another significant conflict that we began to see in chapter is the internal conflict of N'Deye. N’Deye’s conflict can be summarized in one phrase, ” N’Deye herself knew far more about europe than she did about Africa” (58). Yes N’Deye seems to be a, “…prisoner in the place that should have been her home” (58). And yes her intellectual and her standards of marriage are not present in the community. But it is important to stress that N’Deye seems to hold Africa dear in her heart. Her strange relationship with Bakayoko strengthens her hidden love for Africa since she is drawn to him despite her appearent beliefs of European superiority. Bakayoko advocates a message of european resistance, but most importantly a message of accepting the African culture, and N’Deye seems to accept this message when she says to Beaugosse, ” Have you noticed that in the whole time we have been talking we haven’t spoken a single word in Oulof?” (63) N’Deye's conflict between African culture and the European influence in my opinion will cause many people to rethink their views about the strike. My friend recently told me that females are attracted to movies and plots where the women has to choose between two men, such as The Notebook, Twlight, etc. This is seen in this plot as well as it is clear that N'Deye will have to make a decision between Bakayoko or Beaugesse, and im very curious to see who she choses.