My Love My Love 1-3

• Strong descriptions
• Similarities to Once On This Island
• On that island where rivers run deep
• Rivers: Massacre River?
• Romance between Asaka and Agwe is interesting
• Story of the dangers of greed?
• Speak french
• Very clearly Haiti
• Ti Moune is not their adopted daughter?
• Mama uses that name for all orphans
• Confirmed: Ti Moune is the adopted daughter
• Galimar = rich family
• Ti Moune = same character, also called Peasant Girl
• Mama Euralie = Mom
• Sounds similar to Erzulie.
• What about goddess of death and of love?
• Tonton Julian = “dad”
• Brook
• Forbidden place Ti Moune visits
• Massacre River??
• Ti Moune had a sister, died leaving river
• Ti Moune’s birth mother died in storm
• Desiree = ??
• Discovered the car crash
• Has connection with the rich man
• Thought that was Ti Moune
• Desiree promises to take care of the man
• Wait is that Ti Moune’s real name
• What is an Ioa
• Ti Moune’s is Agwe
• Many deeper messages in this story
• Men participate in their own doom
• Ties in to greed?