Today in class we Edwinge Danticat "Night Women". It's a story about a mom who works as a prostitute to take care of herself and her son because her husband is either dead or left. We know this is her profession because of when she speaks about the blood red-scarf she lefts her son sleep with, to let him be able to have something of hers since they have to sleep separately so she can work. That scarf is what she uses to pick up suitors. She learn she is very observant and care deeply for her son. Because when he awakes from sleep, she'd put him back to sleep and tell him that his father came from heaven to visit her if he sees the silhouette of another. She would test to see if he was asleep by rubbing her finger on his lips and messing with his eye-lashes and if she got no reaction she figured he was sleep. Although she doesn't like what she does, because of the way she questioned about one of her suitor's wives, but she knows working like the other woman won't keep them both fed and clothed.
We also read Ntozake Shange "Indigo". Which is a story about a very charismatic girl and her violin. Now she and this violin are very close, it's her best friend so to speak. We know she can play very well by all the songs of that decade she can play. But, she chooses to play her own music, which she plays very loudly, so much so that it disturbs her neighbors. But she does play well, so well, in fact, that it brought a grown man to tears. She played his pain and that played a happy tune for him which brought him to tears.
Today's task was to pick a paragraph from either story and replace the words while keep the structure the same. Sadly, this endeavor is hard than it looks. Still working on that share with you later. Maybe.
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