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"I would be no different from the next one, if I hadn't paid my own little part in blood." Im assuming her child died but I'm not sure.

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A mother of four girls describes how it's like to live in Africa. She also has guilt of something unknown.

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"All I can think of is the other okapi, the one they used to believe in. A unicorn that could look you in the eye."

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"After months of modest hunger the children now forget to complain about food."

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"I remained his wife because it was one thing I was able to do each day."

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The narrator speaks to "you" which she refers to as her favorite.

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" She is inhumanly alone."
What is an Okapi ?
Women were viewed as no different.
She felt as tho she had to pay a part of her own, with blood.

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"She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't."

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"Without taking his eyes from her, he twitches a little at the knee, then the shoulder, where a fly devils him."

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"My daughters would say: You see, Mother, you had no life of your own."

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"It would have trespassed on his devotion to all mankind."

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"Nothing, save for this life of her own."
She has lived her life in guilt and hurt. She most likely struggles in showing her true character.

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be careful . later on you'll have to decide what sympathy they deserve

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"We can only speak if the things we carried with us, and the things we took away." This statement makes you wonder what exactly the mother did, and why she seems to be blaming herself for whatever happened.

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"maybe I'll even confess the truth, that i rode in with the horsemen and beheld the apocalypse, but still I'll still insist I was only a captive witness"

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It seems significant when she talks about the family of weaver birds that work together for months to build a nest, and ironically, that's what destroys their home

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It sounds like she has done something to her children, we seem to have a recurring theme for our mothers recently

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I had washed up there on the riptide of my husband's confidence and the undertow of my children's needs. That's my excuse ,yet none of them really needed me all that much.

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"One has only a life of one's own" pg 8

"Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us dont, but we wear it all the same."

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"This forest eats itself and lives forever."

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"One has only  a life of one's own."

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"How could a mother live with herself to blame?"

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is the an okapi a symbol that it has more freedom than her ?

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¨ One has only a life of oneś own¨
¨ What is the conquerorś wife, if not a conquest herself?

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One has only a life of one's own.

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There is a repeated juxtaposition of humans and animals.

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" He and all the profiteers who've since walked out of Africa as a husband quits a wife, leaving her with her naked body curled around the emptied-out mine of her womb," page 9.

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"Now you laugh, day and night, while you gnaw on my bones."

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