Chapter 9 - Endless

Reading this book has created a vision in which I know that somewhere along the road I will relate to, this book is about growing up and learning and everything that come along with it, from joy to pain, laughter and tears.

This chapter shows Camara leaving his family and going off to study in Conakry.

Here are some of the significant events that occurred;

• When leaving his mother provides him with food and her best wishes + love
• His mother also gives him a bottle and asks him to have a sip everyday in the morning
• His father had held his hand and had said goodbye, Camara cried because he felt heartbroken.
• (About Camaras father, page 141) "But his very presence, his kindness — and even more the fact that he was holding my hand — destroyed the last vestige of courage of this place. He understood" - This quote shows how much his father means to him.
• He said his farewells to many of his family members and his friends and the people in the society.
• When he got to Conakry he was fascinated by the nature and the different style of nature one that he hasn't seen
• Camara gets homesick when he gets there, however his uncle try's to make him feel like home.
• Laye talks about his education and first day of school
• School year passed by slowly

The chapter ended with the following passage;

" The school year passed slowly, very slowly. It seemed endless to me, as endless as the interminable rains that beat down for days and sometimes for weeks on the corrugated iron roofs. As endless as my interminable sickness. Then by a strange coincidence which I cannot explain, I got well just as the school year ended. It was high time. I was choking, bubbling over with impatience. . . . I set off for Kouroussa as if for the promised land."

This shows that his educational life was slow and that he had now returned back home for vacation.