Chpater 18 – Hawk Lady and Hawk Man.
In this chapter, the principals characters who are present are Sade, Femi, Mr. Nathan and Mama Appiah. They are all going to the Immigration and Nationality Departement by taking the subway. When they arrive in front of the building, they are astonished by the queue of people there is and they'll quickly understand that it is worse inside.With seeing all the uniformed people, Sade and Femi began to be frightened and were afraid about what they were going to do to them. Here we can add that we really realize Mr. Nathan and Mama Appiah's roles of protectors and chaperons. As a young adult girl, when the Hawk man and woman asked them for their fingerprints, Sade didn't really react but that was not the case for Femi. For him he was suspected to be criminal and he didn't understand why they should take their fingerprints like in some movies explained Mama Appiah to the Hawk man. After her turn, Sade was walking around in the room where a lot of people, from every countries you can imagine, were sitting. They were all differents, black, white, yellow... But in this crowded place, someone caught her attention more than the others. It was a black woman with her baby and she was asking herself (Sade), without seeing the father next to the woman, if she was father less, just like her... After a while, they returned into the subway and on the walk, Mr. Nathan told to Sade and Femi that now, they could legally go to school in England, even if it's not really what they were waiting for !