Summary

Amal asks his lawyer, Clyde, why he (Clyde) is not on the prosecution’s side. Clyde replies that he works for Amal because he cares about justice. The officers handcuff Amal and take him away. He thinks about when his Grandma told him they would go on a church trip to Senegal and see the Door of No Return that the slaves had to pass through before they sailed to America. He feels as though he needs to be strong, “like steel, like iron and I’m hoping that I’m superhuman” (111).

Amal waits in the tombs to be transferred to jail and thinks about what Jeremy Mathis’s mother said during the trial, that she hopes Amal goes to hell for what he did to her son. Amal sees many other Black boys and men in the tombs and cannot help but...