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The narrator tells us that “every new generation finds the doum tree as though it had been born at the time of their birth and would grow up with them.” What do you make of this?

  I believe that the tree means a lot to the community because it represents values for them, the children who are born present the tree with special powers, because of this they grow a lot making connections with the tree. It represented strength and power. The doum tree was already there when people were born, the village may change but the tree remains the same that is why it presents so much because it is something essential.

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