Lit2020 plot

Carole Davies attempts to analyze the narratives of various authors to show the distinguishing factors in how they identify themselves and identify their homes. Through social interactions, culture, gender, immigration and exile, these Afro-carribean women tell about their identities and how they came to identify themselves and their homes. "Migration and exile are fundamental to the human experience Writing home means communicating with home. But it also means finding ways to express the conflicted meaning of home in the experience of the formerly colonized. It also demands a continual rewriting of the boundaries of what constitutes home."

Mr. Harris is a typical Limboan who believes he is living in America when in reality he is in Limbo Island. He currently claims that he has made it in America from where he uses to be when him and his family first moved to limbo. When in reality he is losing himself in trying to attain the American lifestyle. He is very materialistic; he has all these useless American objects crammed in his house that he thinks represent his success. He is taking his professor Lynnette to his house to introduce her to his wife. Lynnette is very confrontational because she does not agree with how he has lost him self to the American dream. She witnesses this throughout the story. She sees all the American material he has purchased including the EEZIE SUZIE, even his children have been Americanized as we hear about them in the story but rarely see them because they are attached to their TVs and radios. Lynnette does not agree with the lifestyle he has adapted and she is very straight forward about it. Towards the end of the story we see Mr. Harris kind of get his identity back. He believes in everything from his lifestyle to political views until Lynnette and Claire start discussing where they are from. They start talking about the calypso tents, and he is said to lose his American tongue and starts to embrace his true self. He listens to calypsos throughout the story, which is the only tie he has back to his true heritage.

Mr. Sawyer was Eddie's dad. Sawyer was a strange man married to a colored woman. When Sawyer got drunk he would make racial comments. Mildred, a servant took Mrs. Sawyer's hair cut one time. Mr. Sawyer built a small library but his wife hated it and books. Eddie is just like his dad, doesn't like daffodils or strawberries. Mr. Sawyer died around the narrator's 12th birthday. The narrator and Eddie took over the room with the books. Mrs. Sawyer goes in the room and pulls all nice books to sell and plans to burn the rest. She wanted to burn all the books written by women. Eddie and the narrator stole a book and Eddie reveals his mother can't like about stories (what happened) but can lie about people really well. They sat under a tree and eventually went home only for the narrator to realize the book was in French.

Joebell sees how great America is and wants to go. He gets to the airport with a fake passport and gets caught since he couldn't recite the alphabet. He leaves and ironically proudly calls himself Trinidadian at the end.

Story starts when they arrive to Barbados after traveling from New York. The first person the narrators mom introduced them to was Da-duh, she was 80 something years old and had 14 children. Adry, narrator's mother, showed off her children to Da-duh. Da-duh thinks the narrator looks different than the rest. They traveled to St. Thomas where Da-duh lived. Da-duh showed the narrator the town on foot and took her to a garden. Da-duh likes sugar canes and outdoors. Da-duh shows her all the things they have that she doesn't in new york. Narraot danced and sang for Da-duh and she gives the narrator a penny and told her to buy sweets. They would go on walks by the time they got back to NY Da-duh has died around 87. Narrator grew up to buy a loft where she painted seas of sugar-canes.

The daughter has no idea what death is until around the age of 10. She then later becomes aware of the cemetery next to her house. The girl would wait for funerals to come daily. Nalda was a young girl who died in the narrator's mom's arms. She died because of a fever. The narrator loved a girl named Sonia who was known as a dunce. Narrators neighbor Miss Charlotte died and she started to go to funerals.

Annie is the prefect of her class because she always gets the highest grades. The girl who is just below Annie in terms of grades, Hilarene, is very boring and dull and never misbehaves. Ruth, a white girl who comes from England and who is the minister's daughter. Ruth frequently is the dunce of the class. Annie feels bad for Ruth. Annie feels glad that she is a descendant of a slave, because she does not feel this guilt. Annie hypothesizes that if Africans found Europe instead of the other way around, Africans would not have enslaved anyone, but just would have commented on how nice Europe Annie is bored because she already knows the whole lesson, so she is reading ahead in her history book. She comes to a page with a picture of Columbus in chains on it. Annie discovers that Columbus, whom she always had learned was illustrious, had been arrested after falling out of favor with the Queen. As a result, he was placed in chains and shipped back to Spain in the bottom of a boat. Annie likes the idea of Columbus being in chains. She thinks back to a time when her father heard about her grandfather's growing decrepitude and said, "So now the great man can no longer just get up and go." Annie starts to inscribe, "The great man can no longer just get up and go," underneath the picture of Columbus in chains. The girls had congregated they had spent their recess dancing around the schoolyard while singing calypso songs. This dancing was greatly frowned upon, but the girls loved it and felt so energized that they had later gathered amongst the tombstones. Miss Edward is outraged that Annie has defaced her history book, and accuses her of being blasphemous since she has slandered the great man who discovered her island. Miss Edwards sends her to the principal. The principal removes her prefect position and orders her to copy Book I and II of Milton's Paradise Lost.

Armand and Rita Jenkins move into large house in a new town, the house is so large that they need servants. One of these servants is Margot, who is a mute. Margot hopes one day to go to NY because her friend went and told her she would come back for her, but one day Margot finds out she will never be able to go to NY, she has a fit of rage, and this event is referred to as her great disappointment. Margot is accused of a crime she did not commit and ends up in jail with a convicted murderer known as Shallow-Grave who's real name is Erzulie. Margot is fascinated by Shallow grave and becomes her number one fan, bringing her gifts and acting selflessly to make Shallow grave's stay in the prison more comfortable. When Margot is released, she helps Shallow Grave escape and hides her in the Jenkin's house where she works. When Armand's work pollutes the Omai river, Shallw grave is physically and emotionally upset, which exemplifies her deep rooted connection with water. Eventually Margot assists Shallow grave in the murder of Mr. Jenkins and they both flee to brazil.

Two people are having a conversation. One is trying to convince the other that a race of meat people is real. That there are some people who are made out meat. Officially they are supposed to meet the meat beings and welcome them but unofficially they would also erase the records and forget about them. They took the unofficial route but another galaxy talks to them and the story ends with why would they want to be alone. Irony.

Hattie Johnson, the mother who has seen white people before explains what happened. Her husband Willie, is upset about the past and plans to cause trouble when the white man finally visits by making them into slaves hence the other foot. Willie planned on shooting the white people when they came to Mars. Willie wrote on a train where whites were supposed to sit in yellow paint. The white man came to ask for help for a war began and everything they have has been destroyed. Willie decided to forgive and forget and help the white people.

T'gatoi makes the children eat sterile eggs because they supposedly prolong life. T'gatoi was part of the Tlic government as being in charge of the preserve and dealt directly with the Tellans... Mother and T'gatoi have been life long friends. T'gatoi introduced Lien and her current husband. For doing that, Lien promised T'gatoi one of her children in the future. A man, Bram Lomas has brought into the house who needed help. T'gatoi asked Gan to go slaughter an animal for her. Lien, Xuan Hoa and Qui are the only 3 who knew how to kill. Guns were illegal but Gan didn't know what else to use. Gan shot an achter. Gan brought them the animal and Lien and Gan held Lomas down. Gan decides to do it by himself and Lien went away. T'gatoi opened Lomas body and began to lick his blood. There were things called grob inside Lomas body. She picked it up and put it in into the achti. She continued so and Gan went outside to vomit. Gan walked far away from the house until a car comes with Qui in it. Qui was known for running away and started to after he saw people eating a man. Boys got in a fight and Gan went home to everyone sleeping. T'gatoi comes and Gan tells her he doesn't want to be her surrogate animal. Hoa was her next option. Gan said no for Hoa and got implanted with the egg instead. T'gatoi leaves but makes a promise to take care of Gan forever.