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The power of ignorance and pirde- or the lack of.

Race - there is Racial tension throughout the story.  Da-Duh finds white people superior and is familiar with this skewed view. However, the protagonist doesn't posses the values and views of races as Da-Duh does.  She views them as equal. The colonial opression that Da-duh had faced

Love, family, relationships -  A close, but large family is something that is common is the culture of Barbados. Everyone lives together. Da-Duh posses the highest and wisest status in the family.

“Marshall shows the inescapably of history by inscribing it into the very landscape.” The plants that Da-duh so proudly shows off to her granddaughter, whose names Da-duh intones “as they were those of her gods,” are not indigenous to the island, instead originating from other British colonies. Indeed, sugar cane, which brings Da-duh so much happiness, was the fundamental cause of long-lasting African exploitation. The planes that bring about Da-duh’s death also represent colonial oppression; Britain ordered these flyovers in response to a 1937 strike and riot.

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To Da-duh, In Memoriam
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The woman speaks to the man who employed her son

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To Da_duh in memoriam

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The grandmother took immense pride in her land. Though she does not say anything complimentary about her granddaughter, she seeks out her company recognizing the bond that exists between them. Da-duh had several notions about how things were in the US. She thought that there were no trees in the US and nothing ever bore fruit. Initially she has the better of her granddaughter but when she hears the description of snow, her confidence takes a beating. She also has no answer to the towering skyscrapers of US. Somehow she takes it personally and seems to lose her confidence. She loves her house and land so much that she refuses to move out when the planes from UK come. They flew very low and perhaps the fear that they would crash into her house killed her.

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The people of the Caribbean followed a religion that was a mixture of pagan concepts and Christianity. Symbols were common in their liturgy. This story which is narrated by the author as a nine year old has no significant metaphors. The grandmother’s fear of the lorry in which they travel and her death after the planes fly low seem related.

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Though the author was born and bred in the US, her mother and her friends often spoke in a language that was filled with the native idiom of the islanders. Later in life Paule Marshall used this native idiom and slang in most of her writing. She explored the African heritage of the American Africans extensively and language was one of the areas that she concentrated on.

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Rivalry - The characters knowingly participate in this rivalry. Da-duh has the knowledge that comes with age and experience, but the narrator has the brash confidence of youth. Da-duh has her pride of place, showing off her land with its lush plants, trees, and cane fields. The narrator has the technological superiority of the modern world, which she uses to goad her grandmother into silent submission; Da-duh is not impressed by technology, but it is so foreign to her that she cannot even conceive of her granddaughter’s descriptions of life in New York.

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As the story ends with the death of the Grandmother who was called Da-duh by everyone. The story is a kind of tribute to the spirit of the grandmother which enabled her to live happily in her country, following age old customs.

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The story is told from the perspective of the young girl and thus takes a very aggressive standpoints that utilises her young brash attitude. This in turn causes conflict between both Da-duh and the girl. While da-duh prides herself on Barbados, the narrator tries to put her pride in New York, and in the end wins, as the grandmother - da-duh, concedes.

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To Da-Duh, in Memoriam by Paule Marshall analysis video

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This story is about a girl, who lives in New York, going to visit her mother's family in Barbados. It is her first time visiting and she is shocked by the different and unfamiliar lifestyle that people there live. She stays at her grandmother's house, where her aunts, uncles, and cousins live too. The family are fascinated by their alien lifestyle they live in New York.

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The power of ignorance and pirde- or the lack of.

Race - there is Racial tension throughout the story.  Da-Duh finds white people superior and is familiar with this skewed view. However, the protagonist doesn't posses the values and views of races as Da-Duh does.  She views them as equal. The colonial opression that Da-duh had faced

Love, family, relationships -  A close, but large family is something that is common is the culture of Barbados. Everyone lives together. Da-Duh posses the highest and wisest status in the family.

“Marshall shows the inescapably of history by inscribing it into the very landscape.” The plants that Da-duh so proudly shows off to her granddaughter, whose names Da-duh intones “as they were those of her gods,” are not indigenous to the island, instead originating from other British colonies. Indeed, sugar cane, which brings Da-duh so much happiness, was the fundamental cause of long-lasting African exploitation. The planes that bring about Da-duh’s death also represent colonial oppression; Britain ordered these flyovers in response to a 1937 strike and riot.