Summary

The Dark Child is the story of Camara Laye youth. Dark child style, structure and the book purpose is can be classified as novel and the autobiography of writer. The Dark child is similar to same auto biographies such as “Know why the Cage birds Sing” by Maya Anelou and “Goodbye to all that” by Robert graves.

Laye autobiography is structured through the dozens of chapters and each of the evoking to a poignant memory and particular meaning. The first chapter of Laye books represent a small child who is player about his father hut where he recognize that his father talking and caressing to a little snake. His mother told him that snake is guiding about the spirit of his father people. He gives his father knowledge about the special skills that make him to be recognized as prosperous goldsmith and highly praised. Child father tries very hard to share the same knowledge with his children but both son and father sense that there is a transference that will be never occurs, that results destiny of son's lies elsewhere.

Laye, another part of heritage defines in the next two chapters as child visit to his maternal relatives in the Tindican village. He can also participate in the rice harvest. He feels that people of country are sometimes misrepresented and people are uncivilized.

As the little suggest that books deals with the childhood and it's faithful on the world. After the spent of time, he gradually expand to the concession rest then the town of Kourassa, then the Guinea wider country when goes off to the study in the Capital Conakry. However, linked with the childhood served altogether as he gets on the plane to move France. Huts in Kourassa were too small that not possible for Layes brother and sister to ...