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Ramatoulaye writes this after she discovers three of her daughters smoking cigarettes. She is surprised and angry that they’ve picked up the habit, and that it seems to come so naturally to them. The incident brings Ramatoulaye to worry more broadly about the cultural climate of a rapidly modernizing Senegal. Her children—especially her daughters—are now allowed greater freedoms than she ever was, yet as a result they are exposed to a broader array of temptations and dangers. Ramatoulaye worries that compromised morals are the price one pays for progress.
As a mother, Ramatoulaye must adapt to the peculiar conditions of…