Besides that she latter explains her cause of trouble by saying "yesterday you were divorced and today I am widow" (Mariama Ba so long a letter 1). Ramatoulaye share details to the reader about recalling her childhood memories of her and her friend Aissatou practiced in childhood a tradition where the two of them buried their baby teeth in the same hole and begged to their fairy god mothers to rerun them more splendid than before. But in the other hand this may also show the level of trust in their friendship has. This by its self seems strange to western American culture because usually diaries are a way to keep our personal thought feeling and opinions certain thing to our self and are never share where in Ramatoulaye case she shares it with others. In the first entry Ramatoulaye addresses her friend Aissatou who live in America say she has received her letter and has decided to write back to her in a form of a diary in she will write about her life and eventually send to her as a form of response. Through Ramatoulaye ordeal Mariama ba shows the ways on which culture and traditions are practice in West Africa and there affects on Senegalese women. In the novel so long a letter by Mariana Ba Ramatoulaye a woman in Daka Sengal begins a diary with the intention to send to her friend Aissatou who live in America, what recently brought on her behavior was the death of he late husband Madou who had just recently made the abrupt decision to take a second wife and marry Benito.
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