Africa by David Diop

                                   

   What the literature is saying about Africa is that it's a country with much strength. It also refers to Africa as a tree, a country that is continuosly growing and that grows with strength as in doing so. Africa is proud of their ancestry, they are a country that has struggled to recieve freedom. But until this day they, have not achieved to receive freedom a 100%. In places children are still sold as slaves.

 

Night; By: Elie Weisel (Germany)

 

                   The book "Night" is a memoir about Elie's horrifying experience during the Holocaust. The book in general is a difficult story to read. Throughtout the book he describes the traumatizing things that he went through and that he sadly had to witness.  Elie shares his experience of the Holocaust. He shared his thoughts and everything he saw around him.He mentioned the great will he had to keep his father alive, while also struggling himself to survive. As time passed he lost his faith in God.

The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The story about the Handomsest drowned man is about a man who washes up to the sea. He is found by children while they were playing. The children became curious and decided to play with the dead body. Later then men from the village take him back into town. The women clean him up and dress him. While doing so they begin to compare him to the men from their village and name his "Esteban." The men go to near by villages and see if they the dead body was from a family member, but it wasn't. Then the women decide to have a funeral for him.

I would want my family and friends to cremate me. I would rather them have me cremated because I have always dreamed that then the insect may get coffin. I also think it would be less fancy, something simple such as i consider myself.