Bite Of The Mango Sparknotes

Bite Of The Mango addresses the life of Mariatu at the age of eleven. She lived in a small village in Sierra Leone with her aunt and uncle until the rebels attacked Sierra Leone, she was kidnapped and tortured. The author that helped write this book is Susan McClelland. She became interested in world issued in high school, that later encouraged her to be a journalist so that she could give a voice to the voiceless. She has a Major in Political Science, a Minor in Peaces Studies, she also has a Masters in Communication Art. She was born in Toronto, but she grew up in Britain. Mariatu was born in a small village Yonkro in Sierra Leone her father had two wives, it was a common thing in Sierra Leone Sampa the older wife and Aminatu was the …show more content…
They were then tied up and were forced to watch innocent people die such as pregnant women, men, and teens many were burned alive. Many of the rebels were children and they obeyed their leaders who were adult men the rebels were ordered to cut her off arms with a machete. She had passed out when she woke up the rebels were gone she walked for a whole day just to get a town called Yonkro with the help of many people. The city Yonkro was heavily protected by army soldiers the town didn't have the correct equipment to help her. So she was sent to a city called Freetown where she was given surgery half of her arm is now gone. After a couple of days at the hospital she found out that she was pregnant because she had been raped. After she had the child she names the baby Abdul she never had feeling like a mother should have for her child because she was a child herself. She was depressed for a long time after she had given birth she then tried to commit suicide again, but failed. She was then reunited with her aunt and all …show more content…
Mariatu has to beg for money in order for her and her family to survive. Many people from other towns have been moved to Freetown because it is one of the safest cities in Sierra Leone. There are many amputees who are mainly children. A lot of people from other towns live in Refugee camps thats where Mariatu lives right now. When Abdul was several months old a camp official visited her at the tent she was staying at in the Refugee camp. A journalist wanted to take interview and take pictures of amputees from the war. Her picture was taken and a articled was written about her. When Abdul was about ten months old he was very sick and he needed a blood transfusion. An Italian priest named Father Maurizio payed for the transfusion from donations, but the baby died several days later. Mariatu blamed herself for the death of her baby she said ¨Abdul would have wanted to live if I had only given him love.¨ A year later woman from the camp named Yomaba helped her move to England with a man named David and his wife Mariama. The couple helped her get a prosthetic hand and new opportunity. She hated every bit of England she felt as if everyone had pity on her