Dont say your one of them!!! H/w 9/25

Throughout many story lines there are figurative meanings that can be symbolic through a object or event. In the book Say Your One Of Them written be Uwem Akpan the author epitomize mamas dress for a symbol of trickery. This dress is suppopse to fool her younger children Monique and her little brother into thinking that she is going to go on a fancy date. In the area that they are in is very dangerous and its at war. The Tutsi versus the hutu. The dress was displayed as a glittery dress to show meaning of fancy and expensive so in that way the children can think that the parents are going to be out for a while. Mama knew she was going to be out for awhile that why she insisted to tell her strategy into getting out of certain situations. "If anyone ask, say your one of them"(327 Akpan). Mama knew what was going on around her and she was aware that they will be looking for her next. This was a very enigma time for Monique because she didn't understand what was going on but she can infer that her mother was looking nice so everything should be okay. When mama comes back her dress is filthy and dirty from the hiding that she did from the hutu army. One can infer that mama had to go into the ground hide in bushes and dodge them as quickly as possible. "She acts dumb, bewitched, like a goat that the neighborhood children fed sorghum beer"(337 Akpan). This quote exemplify that mama must be physically drained from the exhausting of running. Having to run and hide and see the other Tutsi people die must have traumatized her. She must be weak and hungry with no energy left in her to be mobile.
    The Arther seems to be foreshadowing the house as a symbol of faith and hope for the Tutsi people existence. The roof of the house is a example of the Tutsi population, because they were dying by the dozen each and everyday. One can also infer the weight of the collapse to be the burden of stress and fear and death that rise before them. "I cry with the ceiling people until my voice cracks and my tongue dries up"(351 Akpan). This quote is a great metaphor because the people in the ceilings are dead but the cause of there death is the rage of another humans hand which is sad and depressing. She cries along the dead because she fears as if she will be silently crying with them as well. She cries until she cannot cry anymore, in fact she cries until her tongue dries and and voice is gone like the dead people in the ceiling.
  Overall the Tutsi are in need of help and of the moment no one are hearing there roars of help. The Tutsi people are becoming more antic with there strategy and having them respond to the Hutu as saying you are one of them. It is a depressing factor knowing little children women and Innocent men life are being taken away because what they are. And being killed by mercenaries puts the topping on the cake of this horrible situation.