So Long a Letter
Describe the wake scene for Modou.
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To welcome the crowd that has turned up at the narrator's house on the third day after Modou's death, mats and rented chairs fill the house and a large amount of food is served. Koran verses are recited out loud. Women are on one side of the house and men are on the other side. While the men eat in silence the women make a lot of noise.