Through Arimah’s diction in “Who Will Greet You At Home,” I was able to understand the main character, Ogechi, and her placement within the working-class; I was able to empathize with Ogechi because of the knowledge of her working class status the text provided. The reader is introduced to Ogechi and the unique way of the creation of life/birth in her world as such: “Her mother had formed her from mud and twigs and wrapped her limbs tightly with leaves, like moin moin: pedestrian items that had produced a pedestrian girl” (Arimah 65). The use of the materials, mud, twigs and leaves, tells a lot about Ogechi. In Ogechi society, mother 's make their own child with the materials they find. The materials make up who the child is, as Ogechi was made