post 4 "And my story wait like a restful beast"

  “And my story waits like a restful beast” is a chapter that describes Aminata’s later life in London. The title of the chapter uses the literacy device similar. She describes her story as a restful beast because when others know the story, they will be as shock as they just meet a beast. And the beast is restful because, as she describes on the chapter, abolitionists are only trying to abolish bondage of black people. But they are doing this for their own good; they are not really trying to help black people. Aminata wants the world to know their stories, know what they have been through, but they are not offering her a chance. “Englishmen do love to bury … African in irons”, abolitionists and people that started the slave trade have no different at some point, they are just doing what are good for them. At the end of the chapter, she write “Sometimes I imagine … I will have lived for a reason”, at the beginning of the book, she also wrote that she believes there is a reason that she has been lived so long. I think she means that it is her density to been through everything that she has been through, and tell to story to the world.