Brother Man

Brother Man Homework Assignment

1.  Some conflict in the book Brother Man are Minette's belief thet she has to assert herself to Brother Man and Papacita and Girlie's relatioship. The character Minette sees the character Brother Man as a male figure influence in her life. Due to Brother Man taking her off the streets at the age of seventeen, Minette is of the firm opinion she must repay Brother Man and wants to become sexual with him. Every time Minette makes advances on Brother Man, she gets the feeling of remorse because her conscience is telling her Brother Man sholud only be seen as a father figure and it would be wrong to be in a sexual relationship with him. This conflict is called Internal Conflict.
    The relationship between the characters Papacita and Girlie is not a healthy one. This relationship is not based on love but on violence. Many instances in the book, they are fighting each other. Papacita abuses Girlie to the point she passes out in one of their fights. THe conflict in relation to the relationship between the characters is known as External Conflict.

2   Internal conlict is a character having an internal struggle with their consciencs,for example emotional challenges with desires the character believes is not appropiate. External Conflict is struggle between a character and an outside force, for example a person attacking the character.

3   Three types of Irony are:

Verbal Irony- A character speaking and means often times differently from what they say and the opposite of what they are saying is true.

Irony of situation-  The cotrast of the expected results and tha actually results that take place.

Cosmic Irony- The implication of and unknown force that causea dire and dreadful events.

4.    In the book Brother Man, Irony is played out in parts such as when the character Cordilia getting involved in Obeah and this gives the reader the feeling that serious consequences would be involved as she dealt with dark magic and in the end you see the consequence is death. Irony on a hold gives the book a sense of mystery to it keeping the reader in suspense and urging and yearning to read on to the end of the novel.

Letter to the Editor

Sugar Apple Drive

St.John's

Antigua

W.I

3rd november,2010



Ms Delina West

Editor

Daily Observer

P.O. Box 1318

St.John's

Antigua

W.I

Dear Ms.West,

                        On the 20th of August, 2010, I witnessed an attack on a Rastafarian by a group of persons in a particular community. The rational behind the beating of this man is not clear to me as this man is seen as a peaceful, generous, helpful and spiritual man. After the act of attacking this man was over upon questioning the reason for attacking this man was simply because he was a Rastafarian. Furthrmore it is stated that an incident occured in which an unknown assailant which is said to be a Rastafarian attacked a couple and thus the community branded every Rastafarian in the community as a suspect. Personally in my opinion Rastafarians are peacefully and a very religious set of individuals.The assailant was just trying to bring down the Rastafarian movement. In this day one has to becareful when we state that a person is a Rasta. This is said because Dread Locks a mormal symbolic hairstyle to show how different a Rastafarian is from others with their sense of style, is being used as a fashion statement. So there is a distinct difference in a person being Rastafarian and having dreads as a style.

                           I believe the the attackers of this man should be brought to justice because this man is innocent of any crime. One should not be presecuted for their religion or sense of stlye. one should be persecuted based on one's character not for another man's crime. They made this man seem almost as Jesus being crucified for the sins of the world because of his religion. I dare to ask them would they love to be in his shoes to get the same treatment they gave out? I am sure their answer is no and as a country we need to stand up for what is right and not stay to the way side and let wrongs be done but we must stand up against violence. If we do not now stand up for what is right what will our country turn into?

  

Yours Truely,

Jane Cathy