Throughout the story, amadou "counts the things that matter". what matters to amadou at the start of the book? how does this behavior amadou feel in control of the situation he and seydou are in?

What matters to Amadou is the number of cacao pods he and his younger brother, Seydou, can chop down in a day. The boys wanted to make money to help their impoverished family. It helps Amadou to become determined in doing so because the higher they can make, the closer they are to paying off their debt and returning home.

the economic difference between the three colonial regions. shipbuilding, whaling, fishing, and trapping where also main factors to the economy. the southern regional colonies economy was based on sugarcane, rice, cotton, tobacco, and indigo.

answer; how people relate to each other and influence each other;