Sweet! We finally get to read more about Bertha ( the AIDS ). At first I was like whaaat? This dude got some chick locked up in his attic. And now finally, we get to see her side of the story.
At first it starts off with us being introduced to her family. We automatically find out that the other white's and also blacks in Spanish Town don't neccessarily like Antoinette and her family. They say that her mother, Annette, is way too young and pretty for her father but come on. No such thing as too young, bro. Ha, totally kidding but yeah. The guy has game so they shouldn't hate. Antoinette always seems to wonder about why people never come to visit them and her mom just gives some excuse about how the roads aren't so great to travel on. Um, Antoinette seems to find her mom's horse dead under a tree and she soon finds out that he was poisoned. We're introduced to Christophine and a few others. We meet Pierre, Antoinette's disabled younger brother. Her mom get's a new horse from some more white people. She goes to town a lot. She meets Mr. Mason, they get married, blah blah blah. Eventually their house is set on fire by angry black people which ends up killing Pierre. Antoinette get's sick for a few weeks, she goes to see her mother but soon finds out that she has become increasingly violent so she ends up going to some Spanish covenent. Mr. Mason arranges for her to get married and we pretty much leave off from there.
Now, for starters, slow down! I'm kind of having trouble keeping up with everything. It's pretty fast paced cause it's like one night her mom is out dancing and the next she's getting married? Anyway, I definitely see some connections to this and Jane Eyre. For starters, the setting of where Rochester meets Antoinette and how it's going to be an arranged marriage. Also the foreshadowing of how Annette goes crazy after the death of her son.
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