In the beginning of the book you are explained the atmosphere which is upheld throughout the book. The Black, Indian, and White people all have something in come, the want and need of power. Once they obtain this power, they will do anything to keep it and make sure lower class people never reach the status which they have worked so hard for. This theme started to become evident towards the middle chapters when you really knew what some of these people had envisioned for the rest of their life. To explain this and the intro of this review, I will summarize these particular events and explain how

First of all, when reading this book, the author uses the concept of foreshadowing in a not so obvious way. The most important events later unfold in some unfortunate but

obvious situtations which were bound to happen. For instance after the conflict between Jacobo and Ngotho, Njoroge had ventured into Jacobo's house with his daughter Mwihaki. At the time of this event, Jacobo did not think anything of Njoroge visiting the house, only that he was a student that attended school with his daughter. Although, this situation was brought up again in later chapters. The idea that Njoroge had been at the house that day was connected with the Mau Mau or the Freedom Fighters which lived in the forest. While coming to a pivotal event in my reading, my only expression was, "Oh, I see now ..". This expression I had occurred many times throughout this book, which attracted me to keep reading, since I knew something would unfold.

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Some common words found in the essay are:
Njoroge Mwihaki, Freedom Fighters, Indian White, Weep Child, Black White, Jacobo Njoroge, Ngotho Njoroge, throughout book, white people, cash crop, husband sons,
Approximate Word count = 686
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)