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"Harry/Harriet, boy-girl, Buster's brother-sister" 21

Gender roles are examined in this passage.

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the whole story takes place at Christmastime

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"dreadlocks by which the grace of Our Heavenly Father covered her nakedness"

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Revival Zion, Raz Mataz, Shouter, Ras Tafari, Pentecostal, Disciples of Christ, Kumina

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an inconvenience

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Depression

Downpression

Opression

Recession

Intercession

Commission

Omission

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"He and his surroundings have been tidied by darker people." (P 22). Foreshadows The challenge to Pauls privilege

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Christopher leaves Paul's dead body where no one can find him to bury him, leaving his spirit restless like Christopher's grandmother

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Christopher brutalizes bodies with bottle of fine rum that he consumes, leaves dead dog under perfectly pruned poinsettia, uses pool to bleach khakis of blood (page 49) - family's status and materialism becomes inextricably linked with their deaths

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The use of patios almost forces the reader to slow down in reading, much like the way Jamaican/patois is a much slower rate of speech, an interesting way to bring the reader more into the culture

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"Dat picture dere favor slave, not Saviour (37)".

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"He felt inconvenience at the presence of Mavis' body and found himself turning on her in his head".

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Tension between the upper and lower class

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Tension between the upper and lower class

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fundamental difference between white/light skinned moral and religious perspective and the needs of the lower classes

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"He and his surroundings have been tidied by darker people(22)".

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"...de gal mind de pickney, me is free," (18)

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- descriptions during the party: of "Harry/Harriet", the couple on the air mattress ("no sensitivity"), etc.

- drunkenness

- Blood/flies

- Urine, broken plates

- descriptions of the slum

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"Sorry, Winston, to waste your afternoon so". That was the worst part of being a servant (19)".

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"is a form of magic involving communication with the deceased – either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily – for the purpose of divination, imparting the means to foretell future events or discover hidden knowledge, or to use the deceased as a weapon"(Wikipedia)

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"During the sacrifices in hidden chapels, bleeding an animal who was not them. Pleading with the faithful zombie".

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Began trading "ganja" with America and England .

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- Resettlement as a different type of worship? No telephone to heaven, but now a truck lets them go back to their roots, in a sense.

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-The former use of the truck was to bring women to the market and church revivals.

-The truck is now utilized by men to resettle/cultivate land

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Physical

- Machete/slaughter

- Physical deprivation in Kingston slum; lack of safety nets

Psychological

- Paternalism, feeling of condescension towards Christopher

- Wealthy people on boats in Kingston throwing coins in the water

- Inability to keep track of family ties (Christopher isn't told where his grandmother's body is taken)