Summary

In “In This Dream,” Kofi dreams about Mr. Phillip, Ama, Ebo, his mother and father, and Nana Mosi, and he cannot get to any of them. He cannot scream, and he cannot ask for help. Kofi is afraid to scream out in “I Think Pain” because it will cause rage in his captors, but the pain in his mouth and the pain of Kwasi’s death are too great. The font starts out small as he is afraid to speak out, but it gets larger as he says that he must let it out. In “Outcry” he finally screams out, but no one shushes him, and the guards do not come in. He says he is “on the other side of hope,/ the place numb to fear” (267). In “Later On,” the captor with two fish on his face...