The book The Bite of the Mango is congested with inspirational quotes to live your life by, but there was one in particular that stood out to me. When someone in Sierra Leone would die, nobody would work during that time, instead, they would all sit around and moan the loss. One day shortly after someone in the community deceased, Mohamed, who was about 17, tried to comfort everyone by saying, “If the dead hear you making such a scene they'll come marching back here as ghosts and take over your bodies. The dead die because it was their time. They wouldn't want you spending your remaining days here on earth crying about them”(Kamara, McClelland, p.15). Mohamed would say this in an attempt to make everyone feel better. What I think Mohamed