The African Storyteller

Salamone

Carefully read the story excerpt and the accompanying commentary. Questions will be presented after select passages.

Once, there was a boy, Salamone, whose father was dead. The boy mourned for him day after day, until at last his mother went to the chief and asked that the boy be put to death.
The chief agreed to this request…

The society is tainted. Two of the members of the society who should be most protective, a mother and the political leader of the community, are determined to kill a boy because he is mourning the death of his father. So the story begins with a society out of joint.

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