Kelsey Dunlap

Robert Arnold

LBST 2102 – H93

March 24, 2011

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight Microtheme

Born in Derbyshire, England, and raised in Africa since she was a

toddler, Alexandra Fuller writes a memoir of her experiences of

growing up in Africa and reveals a love-hate relationship with the

country. She and her family are the restless type who have no

problem living an extremely harsh life and they seem to find ways to

cope with the brutality of their lifestyle. After traveling and living

outside of Africa, Bobo has lost little of her sharp, to the point, edge.

Even after experiencing a comfortable life (relative to the one she had

in Africa), she still adores Africa and it will always be home to her.

This is odd because of the pure hell she went through while living

there. She went to University in Canada and Scotland, experiencing a

way of living wildly different from hers, yet she still goes back home to

Africa with a content, fondness. As a child, all she wanted to be was

normal, but growing up the way she did, took any chance of being

normal away, and even living overseas has not changed that. She is

African and nothing can ever influence what has been engrained in her

while she grew up in the live-or-die conditions of Africa.