Due to the friendly nature of Fekadu’s personality, the two men get into a conversation about family and ethnicity, and Fekadu reveals the reason why he is in America. William learns that the cab driver he thought was poor and low class was actually a child prodigy who went to oxford to study physics and math, and he is also a pilot in his home country of Ethiopia (119). Fekadu tells William that he was forced to bomb his own country under the orders of Selassie, an Ethiopian dictator. When he could no longer bare to kill his own people, he stole an airplane and fled the country leaving his parents, wife, and three sons behind. As far as Fekadu knows, he will never see his family again. William, who is shocked by this man’s life story, realizes that he was way off when judged Feakdu.