SCENE ONE: Dissolution of the youth with obeah traditions/ Generational dicide Flashcards
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‘spend money [she] aint got’
-Del especially is completely unbelieving of the Obeah traditions unlike her mother who is willing to ‘spend money [she] aint got’ to see Mai.
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‘she stinks’
Del is derogatory about Mai when she first meets her.
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‘End up paying 50 quid by time she finished with you’
Shows Del think its a farce/ mercantile and doesn’t work.
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Del says to Mai ‘mumbo Jumbo nonsense’ / ‘mumbo-jumbo shit’
-Say straight to Mai’s face which is extremely rude and shows that she is very against Obeah
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Del about Mai and the obeah traditions: ‘duppies and evil spirits’
-Shows how much Del is against Obeah and Jamaican traditions
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‘its like a museum’
-As if Mai and obeah traditions are almost is a relic from a far away land
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‘charms’ repeated throughout the show
-Words ‘charms’ is repeated throughout to show the exotism of the Carribean culture to the younger generation who have been anglicised (made English/British) by growing up in England. **This shows how the younger generation are out of touch with Jamaican culture. **
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‘spirit and palms’
-The words ‘spirit’ , and ‘palms’ to emphasise the focus on these backward and archaic Jamaican traditions that the elders still believed in deeply. It shows how the elders are superstitious but the younger generation do not believe in these traditions.
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‘Chicken and cock crows’
-‘Chickens’ and a ‘cock crows outside’ which shows how Mai is still embracing rural Caribbean culture despite living in London
-Symbolises the elder generations distaste at English cultures and how desperately the immigrants try to cling onto a piece of back home (chickens out in the backyard).
-Del and Viv think this is really odd as they are Londoners and have never been to Jamaica so therefore, it shows how out of touch they are with their cultural heritage.
