"No Telephone to Heaven" by AE Ellis https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17 p. 13 - 50 en-us 2015-10-05 12:31:01 UTC 2017-01-23 16:59:46 UTC hello@padlet.com Violence detecafix https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75205640 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)

]]> 2015-10-13 14:10:33 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75205640 Church revivals/market  alanahswindle https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75208514 -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

]]> 2015-10-13 14:17:42 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75208514 Technology detecafix https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75209499 - 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.

]]> 2015-10-13 14:20:20 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75209499 Natural Resources alms15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75211465 Began trading "ganja" with America and England .

]]> 2015-10-13 14:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75211465 Quote on pg. 16 alms15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75212161 "During the sacrifices in hidden chapels, bleeding an animal who was not them. Pleading with the faithful zombie".

]]> 2015-10-13 14:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75212161 Nigromany (Necromancy)  alms15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75214597 "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)

]]> 2015-10-13 14:32:39 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75214597 Ruffian(s)  alms15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75218025 2015-10-13 14:40:04 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75218025 Mistress/Master alms15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75218838 "Sorry, Winston, to waste your afternoon so". That was the worst part of being a servant (19)".

]]> 2015-10-13 14:41:58 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75218838 Visceral/Bodily imagery detecafix https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75220377 - 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

]]> 2015-10-13 14:45:31 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75220377 Morality detecafix https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75222122 2015-10-13 14:49:50 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75222122 "Planters Pickney" alms15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75222308 2015-10-13 14:50:17 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75222308 Gender Roles detecafix https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75224249 "...de gal mind de pickney, me is free," (18)

]]> 2015-10-13 14:55:39 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75224249 The "Dungle" detecafix https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75224705 2015-10-13 14:56:50 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75224705 alms15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75224751 "He and his surroundings have been tidied by darker people(22)".

]]> 2015-10-13 14:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75224751 Religion detecafix https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75224816 2015-10-13 14:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75224816 "Lickle Jesus" detecafix https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75224959 fundamental difference between white/light skinned moral and religious perspective and the needs of the lower classes

]]> 2015-10-13 14:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75224959 Colorism detecafix https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75225254 2015-10-13 14:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75225254 Caste-like Society detecafix https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75225366 2015-10-13 14:58:37 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75225366 Tension between the upper and lower class alms15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75227078 2015-10-13 15:03:40 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75227078 page.22 alms15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75233382 "He felt inconvenience at the presence of Mavis' body and found himself turning on her in his head".

]]> 2015-10-13 15:21:08 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75233382 "Mountains of Garbage"  alms15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75235686 2015-10-13 15:28:00 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75235686 Black Jesus alms15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75269669 2015-10-13 17:08:22 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75269669 alms15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75270308 "Dat picture dere favor slave, not Saviour (37)".

]]> 2015-10-13 17:10:43 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75270308 Mother Africa alms15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75273082 2015-10-13 17:19:07 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75273082 The seed of God alms15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75273329 2015-10-13 17:19:51 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75273329 Dialect  ebb15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75301630 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

]]> 2015-10-13 18:52:53 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75301630 Affluence and violence aahillenburg https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75354274 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

]]> 2015-10-14 01:54:23 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75354274 Paul's nameless body aahillenburg https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75354595 Christopher leaves Paul's dead body where no one can find him to bury him, leaving his spirit restless like Christopher's grandmother

]]> 2015-10-14 01:57:08 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75354595 Paul's Privilege  zvm15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75355458 "He and his surroundings have been tidied by darker people." (P 22). Foreshadows The challenge to Pauls privilege

]]> 2015-10-14 02:04:35 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75355458 Sound of Missionaries sih15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75362351 Depression

Downpression

Opression

Recession

Intercession

Commission

Omission

]]> 2015-10-14 03:46:08 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75362351 Living hand to mouth sih15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75362545 2015-10-14 03:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75362545 Mavis sih15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75362565 an inconvenience

]]> 2015-10-14 03:47:47 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75362565 Higher sih15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75362650 Revival Zion, Raz Mataz, Shouter, Ras Tafari, Pentecostal, Disciples of Christ, Kumina

]]> 2015-10-14 03:48:27 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75362650 the "Dungle"  ebb15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75406053 2015-10-14 12:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75406053 ebb15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75406322 "dreadlocks by which the grace of Our Heavenly Father covered her nakedness"

]]> 2015-10-14 12:05:36 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75406322 ebb15 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75407267 the whole story takes place at Christmastime

]]> 2015-10-14 12:11:23 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75407267 Proximity to the dead aeellis https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75441318 2015-10-14 14:10:12 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75441318 Mavis as "faithful servant" aeellis https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75441424 2015-10-14 14:10:28 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75441424 Christopher destroys the hierarchy aeellis https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75442183 2015-10-14 14:12:51 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75442183 Otherness/Not fitting in cooklily97 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75509678 "Harry/Harriet, boy-girl, Buster's brother-sister" 21

Gender roles are examined in this passage.

]]> 2015-10-14 17:32:14 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/75509678 Origin, family nboston1 https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/76101742 2015-10-19 03:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/aeellis/yn2sn18ndh17/wish/76101742