Chapter 4
- Will the men come back?
- Police treat peasants unfairly
- Desiree doesn’t care
- Her father is missing?
- “He needs more rest and you need more work” reminds me of song in Once on this Island
- More fear of police than of gods
- Interesting comparison to modern world issues
- Des only cares about the patient
- FATHER IS MISSING
- “Only a rock is so blind as to guard only the earth on which it sits”
- She interprets his open eyes as welcoming and inviting
- Are they actually? I think shes kind of self-centered at this point
- Rain falls
- Too much rain - ironic??
- Erzulie is mother of love
- Mama is very worried about Tonton
- Still, Des is ignorant
- A smell of death in the cabin
- Rain is the nectar of the gods
- Battle with the gods to keep him alive
- Papa Ge appears
- She sends her away with a vow of love
- “She knows his persistence”
- Foreshadowing?
CHAPTER FIVE
- Rain stops
- Mama says all storms favor peasants in some way
- “Won a victory over darkness”
- David’s father in helicopter
- Another “carrier”
- Another “bird-like figure”
- Father does not see her
- 10 minute visit
- Says vague, kind things about Tonton
- Pays them in 5 gourds
- Tonton returns
- A week later
- Had to fight the storm alone
- Beuxhomme did not offer help or guidance
- Even though he gave directions
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