Aminata first losses her innocence at …show more content…
Since that experience Aminata became mentally and emotionally mature at a young age which made her understand to survive. Aminata’s earliest memories was of being abducted into the slave trade thus losing her innocence: “Many times during that long journey, I was terrified beyond description, yet somehow my mind remained intact. Men and women the age of my parents lost their minds on that journey” (Hill, 56). As she describes her journey into the slave trade she remains mentally and emotionally stable while others around her began to mentally break down. Aminata’s mental strength made survive the horrible conditions she endured in the slave trade. As Aminata returns to her hometown in the Bayo, she rediscovers the pain and emotional strength she had to go through to survive being in the slave trade: "I could not go on living if all my years of longing for liberty and homeland were to lead me back to the neck yokes and ankle chains of my childhood abudction" (Hill 439). Now that Aminata is finally free from being a slave, she recognizes her strength that she endured to survive being a slave. In