Year: 2017

Sophie We first meet Sophie at age 12 living with her aunt Tantie Atie as her mother lives abroad (New York). Soon after she travels to New York to live with her mother and here we see role reversal where Sophie has to take care of her sick mother. We see her stages of development from a 12 years old…

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The Deeper Meaning The play is a retelling of the struggle against colonialism. The three brothers represents the challengers to colonialism: Gros-Jean represents the slave generation that thinks brut strength is the answer to all problems. Mi-Jean represents the middle class with their snob ideals. Ti-Jean is today’s generation Therefore, the brothers represent the movement of the generations throughout the…

Gros- Jean– he is the first son, like his name suggests he was big and strong. Although he had excessive strength he was foolish. As such, he was quickly defeated by the devil. Mi-Jean– he is the second son who thinks that he is the intellectual of the family. In reality he is a dumb moron who the Devil quickly…