Summary: Remi as she meets her mother again after so many years, feels as if she doesn't know her mother anymore. She blames her mother for not caring about her all those years as she was apart from them in England. Aunty Madge tells her that her mother couldn't do anything and that all those years she felt as if a part of her was missing. Soon Remi starts to remember her mother and they hug. Her father later decides to change her to a new school which he feels is better. Remi's siblings also go to England and they all attend Dove House School. They go on holiday break. Now they have a new family to stay with, the Braithwaite's. They go to church and have a great time. They soo go back to school. Remi has a best friend there, Phoebe. Remi then gets invited to go to Germany with some friends. Herr Schofbeck is her host there in Germany. She delt with many cultural problems there and she also began to think more about boys-if they liked her or not. The boys would mostly fall for her friends. The ones that did fall for her were creepy and old. She gets back from Germany and she tells Phoebe everything. They go to a school dance and no one asks them to dance. Two boys are soon forced to dance with them. As the boy dances with Remi, he speaks about another girl as she passes by saying that she is really beautiful. Then he asks Remi if she is considered attractive in her own country. Remi doesn't feel as beautiful as other girls. Soon, her family and friends from Lagos come. She feels beautiful again and she even gets a boyfriend, Akin. They go to parties and she realises as she dances that there is nothing more beautiful than a Yoruba Girl Dancing.
Quote: " ' I say,' he said, 'are you considered attractive in your own country?' " (Bedford 174).
Reaction: This is when Remi dances with the boy and he asks her that rude question. You can't just ask someone that question. He is ignorant.
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