Scene Five - Mai is at her bedsit with Del. In this scene, Del begins to come around to Mai’s obeah customs. Viv arrives having walked out of her exam and Del is furious and throws her out.

Question 1

Del uses ‘love potion’

Answer 1

p.49 - Del uses the ‘love potion’ when Mai isn’t looking which shows how she is beginning to be interested in obeah.

Question 1

Del says ‘surprised but not wanting to show it’

Answer 1

Del’s moment of conversion to interest in Mai’s obeah profession after she does an accurate reading of her.

Question 2

Del is ‘pregnant’

Answer 2

p.50 - Del is ‘pregnant’ and seems lost staying at Mai’s hoping to get a council flat.

Question 3

p.52 - Viv gets out the money that Enid has given her and offers it to Del.

Answer 3

Viv feels guilty to keep the money after having walked out of the exam, as Enid gave it to Viv after how proud Enid was at Viv for doing well at school

Question 4

Viv walks out of exam because ‘no matter how much {she} searches for herself in books, {she} is never there’

Answer 4

-Shows the disillusionment with the English education system
-Because as a Black British woman nobody of her color and her ethnicity features in the curriculum so she doesn’t feel represented in what she learns at school

Question 5

Del ‘throwing her out’

Answer 5

-Referring to Viv after she finds out how she messed up the exam by walking out
-Shows her furious Del is at Viv for messing up education so she throws her out of Mai’s bedsit (where she came to visit Del at the time)
-Del struggled at school and didn’t have the chance to do as well as Viv did so she was so unhappy with Viv as she threw away her chance at school by walking out of exam