Annotations #4

Abena

• Unmarried at 25-Dishonor

• Symbolism- failed crops

• Examples of wedlock and pre-marital relations and affairs

• Broken Family and Generational Trauma

• Outcast Family

• Stones from Glass House- shaming slave trade and families part in slave trade

• In the Dark about Family History

• Village outrage-isolation

• Symbolism-pregnant or seven bad harvest

• woman punished, but not man- real life

H

• Same but Different- Emmet Till

• Slavery, but not slavery

• Subject to “indentured servitude”

• Affair on ex-wife? Why did he call her a different name?

• Whip Scars, even as convict

• Tragic parental story

• Ethe and H love overcame all

• Built himself up, literally and figuratively

• Union strike- real life event