Why does chapter one impress, intrigue, or confuse you?
The beginning of the chapter immediately intrigues me. Achak Deng is being held hostage in his own apartment, while two strangers raid and steal things from his and his roommate's apartment. It makes me realize that you can not really trust anyone but yourself and of course immediate family. In the beginning, when Tonya - one of the culprits - comes into Achak's apartment claiming that her car broke down, Achak questions her answers - in his mind, of course. First she asks if Achak has a phone because she needs to call the police because her car broke down - Achak wonders "Why does she need to call the police for that?" then later on when he welcomes her into his apartment, she asks him to leave his door open because she will only be a minute, which, again, does not make any sense to him, or anyone else reading I'm sure. Yet Achak does what he is told because, he quotes, "It does not make sense to me to leave the door open but I do so because she desires it. This is her country and not yet mine." The second sentence also intrigues me. What does he mean by it? That he is inferior to the natives of America? Even if he was not born and raised here, we are a free and welcoming country.
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