1. My favorite character from "The Pain Tree" is Larissa because she embodies a raw and difficult reality of so many women who had suffered due to the oppressive regimes that oblige them to take a job raising someone else's kid and leave their own children. She definitely is a tragic figure that I can't help but to be moved by her hardships. Larissa is a black woman from a working class background that lived in the house of her bosses.
A parallel that can be made with Michelle Cliff's essay is that both narrate the difficulties of being a black woman in an oppressive white dominated country.
2. It could be because there's some fear lying within Lorraine's mother that her hegemony can end. If the oppression of the black population ends, she and her class will loose their privilege. That would be a considerable change of the class establishment of Jamaica.
3. "The Pain Tree" is a tree that's filled with nails that represents the sorrow of the people that want their pain to go away. Larrisa goes to the pain tree after she learns about the drowning of her youngest son, this is the most poignant moment in the story.
4. One interpretation of that quote is people with less material wealth has a more significant connection with the earth than the people who owns most of the land. They could have papers that claim they posess that piece of land, but the working class is the one that has the best relationship with the earth and that can be assessed with "The Pain Tree".
A parallel that can be made with Michelle Cliff's essay is that both narrate the difficulties of being a black woman in an oppressive white dominated country.
2. It could be because there's some fear lying within Lorraine's mother that her hegemony can end. If the oppression of the black population ends, she and her class will loose their privilege. That would be a considerable change of the class establishment of Jamaica.
3. "The Pain Tree" is a tree that's filled with nails that represents the sorrow of the people that want their pain to go away. Larrisa goes to the pain tree after she learns about the drowning of her youngest son, this is the most poignant moment in the story.
4. One interpretation of that quote is people with less material wealth has a more significant connection with the earth than the people who owns most of the land. They could have papers that claim they posess that piece of land, but the working class is the one that has the best relationship with the earth and that can be assessed with "The Pain Tree".
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