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Part I (Pages 1 - 29)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Diop, David. At Night All Blood is Black. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2021.

• This book was written in a mix of the past and present tenses and from the first person perspective.

• In Chapter I, which begins in the present tense, the narrator, Alfa Ndiaye, understands that he should not have done something, but the reader does not know what.

• Alfa proceeds to explain that his best friend Mademba Diop, who he refers to as his "more-than-brother," died an agonizing death on the battlefield fighting for France against Germany in WWI.

• Mademba, disemboweled and suffering terribly, asked Alfa to kill him by slitting his throat to end his suffering, but Alfa could not grant this request.

• Alfa felt he had listened to the voice of duty and had just not...

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