- What is a Madonna?
- Google: The virgin Mary, typically a picture or statue
- Interesting religious theme at play with the voodo religion in Haiti
- Special connection to mother
- "Cries"
- Oil melting wax
- "Spanish speaking country" = Dominican Republic
- Narrator born on night of massacre
- "respectable" wrinkles
- Mother is a prisoner
- buys her fried pork
- Americans built prison
- In very bad condition
- Poor treatment of prisoners
- Shaved heads, throw water on each other so they do not grow the flames
- "Manman" = mother?
- accused of having "wings of flame"
- Referring to blood on her body after escaping massacre
- "Prison guards watched her more closely because they thought that the wrinkles resulted fro
- om her taking off her skin at night and then putting it back on in a hurry, before sunrise. This is why Manman's sentence had been extended to life"
- Jailed for witchcraft?
- Daughter being lied to?
- Actually jailed for running from massacre?
- Accused of causing a child's death
- Daughter does not speak
- Finally asked if mother could fly
- Response: "All the women who came with us to the river, they could fly to the moon and back if that is what they wanted"
- Metaphor?
- Betrayal of community
- Thoughts: Mother was unfairly jailed (obviously) but this story is particuraly sad because if the mother was not there to care for the baby when it's own mother was too busy, what would have happened to the baby? All she was doing was helping
- Massacre River
- Boarder between Dominican and Haiti
- Mother spoke to the sun
- Daughter: Josephine
- Mother lost her mom in the massacre, escaped through the river
- Women who went through the same experience came to the river with them
- Jacqueline
- Women who went to river with them
- Brings Josephine to the prison
- Krik? Krak! Call and response
- "code"-ish, communication between Josephine and Jacqueline.
- Mother's death
- Women in the cell held something that belonged to mother
- "They kept their arms close to their bodies, like angels hiding their wings"
- Josephine believes they are angels
- Watch them burn the body
- "Flying"= escaping
A Wall of Fire Rising
- Guy: Husband
- Wants to leave
- Something happened that day
- Working at sugar mill next week
- Long list to get in: wants to add son
- Wife refuses
- Feels like he is losing wife
- Angular hairline = troubled life
- Obsessed with hot air balloon
- Wants to escape
- Gets in in the air
- Jumps out, suicide
- Lili: Wife
- Feels like she loses husband at sugar mill
- Gender roles
- Guy thinks he can control her
- Thinks he knows what is best
- Wants Little Guy to go far
- Little Guy: Son
- Seven years old
- In a play
- "Boukman"
- Huge influence in Haitian revolution
- Speeches are powerful and impact both parents
- Given more lines because he worked hard
- Poor family
- News at 8
- Nightly event
- State sponsored
- Most of the town attended
- Sugar mill
- Owned by "arabs"
- Haitians of Lebanese or Palestinian descent
- Assad family
- Son had a hot air balloon
- Don't close eyes "likes to look at the sky"
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