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STAGE DIRECTION -”Dels hangs back”
Ironic that Del hangs back even though she is very disrespectful towards it like how she calls in “mumbo jumbo nonsense”
“Gullyman wake up to find him lovely car covered in shit” (with a racist message on it )
Brod - scene 2 - shows the impact of Racism on someone they knew and how real this is for them
Brod - scene 2 - shows the impact of Racism on someone they knew and how real this is for them
You mother did want turn postmistress but she never pass the exam.She want better for you.”
“And what if i fail my exam?What’ll she do then?”
VIv -scene 2 - she feels underlying tension to reach parental expectations and there is a role reversal - child worried ab mother- and shows viv is very compassionate
STAGE DIRECTION DEL enters to silence .She’s wearing her work uniform
dramatic irony
“Grateful for what?This shithole?A greasy job in a greasy cafe where they treat me like a dum dum and give me a couple of pounds at the end of every week?What’s that to be grateful for?
Del feels inferior in this country
BROD puts a record on.Its heavy dub.
Brod-scene 30 shows he is trying to stay connected to his roots
BROD puts a record on.Its heavy dub.
Brod-scene 30 shows he is trying to stay connected to his roots
Dancing together at first then separately into their own world
Enid and Brod-scene 5- show that Brod can bring peace to Enid but repects that Enid is a private person
I been thinking ab jamaica”
“You wouldn’t survive out there two days by yourself “
VIv-scene 3- moment of courage and viv talks to her when her mother is busy which is tactical
“You see what nonsense you put in the girl’s head?”
“You see what nonsense you put in the girl’s head?”
Enid-scene 3- potential conflict and Brod has done his job and taught Viv about her culture
BROD reaches out to ENID but she moves away
does nto want to seem vunerable
Ah lie Cynthia a tell.She jus want money…”
Enid-scene 3- shes in denial and brod has to repeat it to get through to her
Story of Enid’s relationship with her husband and ho she moves in with a guy that she hasn’t spoken to him in a year
Enid-scene 4 - shows that she used to be a risk taker and being a single mother changed her
What if I dont want to go to uni?What if i want to travel the world like you did,fall in love..”
Enid gives Viv a lot of money that she has been saving for ages but no money for Del.
Viv-scene 4- clash between what viv wants and her mother wants
Spent my life bent over books that have nothing to do with me.”
Viv-scene 4 - her studies do not reflect her and it’s a eurocentric curriculum
Spent my life bent over books that have nothing to do with me.”
Viv-scene 4 - her studies do not reflect her and it’s a eurocentric curriculum
DEL is staying in MAis house
DEL is staying in MAis house - shows that at a time of need she went back to her and shows that she trusts her even though her actions in scene 1 say otherwise
You gone mad or what””trying to win back yourself a fugitive husband”
Del-scene 5- still mocking obeah with her tone of disbelief and wit
Those pictures your son put on the wall..”
Del - scene 5- shows that mai hasn’t taken them down and shows her maternal instinct that she misses her son and maybe has hope he will come back.
“Love potions are for making people love themselves.Want some ?”
“No way”
Mai and Del -scene 5- it shows that mai is wise and the people are their own worst enemies and Mai feels as Del is insecure in herself but Del denies it to her face but then when Mai leave “DEL quickly picks up love potions and dabs some behind her ear” which shows maybe she is insecure in herself and is her first interest in obeah.
DEL TAKES MAI HAND “you like having me around…(imitating MAI)iif me wrong say me wrong”
Del - scene 5- inverts earlier and del is copying mai which could foreshadow later on in the play when del actually becomes an obeah women
“No she wouldn’t. you’re her favorite”
Viv-scene 5- even though the whole play it’s presented that its very clear that everyone believes Viv is the favourite due to her academic success viv doesn’t think so
ENId stares straight ahead…and her mouth opens in a soundless scream.then the sound comes a howl of pain.
Enid-scene 6-shows that mai makes people feel comfortable around her but also shows enid has all thus built in stress
Enid-scene 6-shows that mai makes people feel comfortable around her but also shows enid has all thus built in stress
Mooma never like me.I was everything she never want me to be”
Enid-scene 8- shows that maybe she projected her own insecurities onto her daughter
