The Dark Child

The Dark Child Camara Laye wrote The Dark Child to oppose stereotypes that have bring about part of western goal. When most westerners think about Africa they think of an rudimentary country that is stricken by poverty and primitive behavior. The dark pincer is an autobiography of Camara Layes youth and his early manner growing in to adulthood. Camara Laye grew up in the town of Kouroussa on the inland plain of cut Guinea in the Malinke tribe. His draw was a well-renounced blacksmith and a man of impost but he wanted a Western education for his son.Around the bosom of this book is where Camara Laye describes his initiation into adulthood at about the age of thirteen. He and the other boys sing while they enter the forest where they kneel with unlikeable eyes with a roar of many lions surrounding them. Later he discovers the rational explanations for these frightening events, but he is wise enough to know that for the boys who take part in it, the ceremony is still a true up test of courage, and a real division between childhood and adulthood.The developed circumcision comes later, which he describes as a really dangerous ordeal, and no spirited Upon his return to the village, he is moved to his own hut, separated from his puzzle and father and he is given new mens clothes with quiet gratitude. This photograph closes with Camara turning to his mother to thank her, who he finds standing quietly empennage him, smiling at him sadly. Shortly after moving into his hut, Camara leaves at 15 years of age to attend Ecole Georges Poiret, now known as the proficient college in Guineas capital city of Conakry.His mother warns him to be careful with strangers and sends him withdraw on a train to live with his Uncles Sekou and Mamadou in Conakry. In the cultivate, Camara encounters knotty language barriers and a hot, humid climate more severe than his theme in Koroussa. In his new school it is evident that it is more colonized. Camara lives the life of a typical college student by studying at school and going home during the breaks. As he experiences the European education, he adopts the culture associated with it.His mother changed the way his hut looks to give it a more European look, which he notices. He is aware of because the changes were making the hut more comfortable. some(prenominal) years after leaving for Conakry, Camara returns home with his proficiency certificate and an tenderize from the director of his school to continue his studies through a scholarship, in France. art object his uncles and father support and encourage him to take the foreign study opportunity, his mother is forbids him to accept the offer.He decided to accept the offer despite his mothers resistance to the idea, and separate with her and his father all while his mother was shouting insults and pushing him away. She accordingly fell into a heap of tears, turning her anger instead to the European influences. His father gave him with a map of ci ty transportation of the Paris underground in France. His father gives him the physical, practical tools for surviving in the city, but with that comes a theoretical compass directing the learning and success of his son. The mixed emotions of fear, excitement, solicitude and sadness cultivate with Camara crying as he goes to exit the plane.