Tribal Scars Essay

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Tribal Scars is the story of a man, Amoo and his daughter Iome trying to escape the slave trade. Saer, the story-teller, has asked a serious question; 'Why do we have tribal scars?' The people of the village asked the elders and they came up with some reasons. Saer was able to prove them all wrong.. The slave boat was docked and after eight days it got raided and looted by Momutu (the leader). Momutu's lieutenants asked what they should do with Amoo. Momutu told them to worry about Amoo later; that he was looking for his daughter. Amoo found his daughter and he knew that the only reason Momutu had captured the slaves was to re-sell them. After Momutu's men had taken everything off of the boat, Momutu lit a fuse connected to two barrels of gunpowder and blew the him up. After they got ashore, Amoo was offered a drink by Momutu, but refused. They were waiting for more slaves while waiting in the jungle. Amoo wanted to go back to his village with his daughter, after working for Momutu for two months. One of Momutu's men asked Amoo if it was true that he killed his wife so she wouldn't be taken prisoner, and then asked why he has risked his life more than once for his daughter. Amoo says, “She’s my daughter!" He doesn't want to lose Iome because he has seen his whole family go into the slave trade. Momutu wants Iome because she's young and would be worth a lot of money. Momutu was trying to keep Amoo and Iome, not letting them out of his site, but Amoo heard a couple of Momutu's men talking about it so Amoo was on guard the whole night. While holding Iome on his lap, carving a doll for her Amoo was confronted by Momutu. Momutu asked why Amoo wanted to go back to his village; there was nothing left, but Momutu didn’t wait for Amoo to even reply by going on with his story about how he once had a village. Then a man came and told Momutu that the whites were coming and had
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