Sultan Hashmi Roseberry 3rd 11.6.

13 Narrative During The cold miserable night, I was told that I would be returning to my old village. After hearing this amazing news, I was radiating happiness. I was a little sad because I would be leaving the family, which had taken care of me for three whole years. I threw up the red hard yam into the air and it descended back into my hand as I thought about my beautiful family. I remembered my younger sister whom had been bawling in tears when I left. She had not seen me through my three hard years. As I lie on my bed, I fell asleep feeling the soft bed sheets under me. I woke to the pounding and screaming of a young man. He was screaming, Wake up we are to leave now. I sprang up and packed my old ratty belongings, which I have had since I was a boy. We walked out of the dirty hut and into the African valley. The sizzling sun beats down on my hot back. With every step a sharp pain shoots up my leg. The intense heat turned the soft brown soil into a hard weathered and shattered floor full of blood from an earlier hunt. The air stinks of flesh and death. In my warm heart I feel that something is awkward and I say to my self, everything is going to be alright. Okay, Ikemefuna. I wonder if my parents are alive and well. I touch my dust-covered, crusty legs as I listen to the sweet sound of nature while we walk through the forest. I hear the evil roar of a nearby lion and the squawk of a vulture flying overhead. I hear the bitter crying of twins in the evil forest. I listen to the sharp quiet conversation Okonkwo and one of the other men were having. All I was able to hear was, Kill. When I heard this word, I became nervous. Were they talking about me? Or were they talking about someone else? What if they were going to kill my family? All of these ideas were haunting me. Ahh I yelped in pain, as I felt a sharp disturbing pain shoot through my shoulder blade. I looked over only to see a yellow bee fall to the ground. As the bee fell to the earth, I wondered, would this day be my last