Her fear showed as she screamed for the elder female. There are questions that Mr. Sékou did not answer. Was the group of travelers kidnapped and placed aboard a slave ship en route to the new world? If so, where did the sentry tell the child to run? In this state, the girl realized that she was bleeding and that she was becoming a woman. At the end of the story, the child is persuaded by her mother to hurry up and prepare for her journey. This would suggest that the child was daydreaming or daydreaming about the journey, revealing both his excitement and his fear of the unknown. The Wake and Brotherhood of the Spurs are the other two stories with a historical flavor. The Wake began with a young man returning home from war to the welcoming arms of his mother. This young man, seemingly unable to find employment in his native country, left for the greener pastures of Cuba, and then to New York. From New York he traveled to Curaçao, where he met, married and started a family. His wife arrived with unanswered questions about his past, including the death of his sister at the age of five..