Andrea Levy Small Island Foil
In this essay I will be discussing foil as a characterization of Small Island. Bernard Bligh and Gilbert Joseph are two characters that represent foil in Small Island. Both characters contrast and overlap a pattern with each other throughout the novel. Andrea Levy, born to Jamaican parents in 1948. Levy’s inspiration to write Small Island was her fascination of her Jamaican heritage and how her parents came from Jamaica to Britain. She wanted to understand and present these experiences in a format of a novel. How Jamaicans travel to Britain in search of a new life, but also including the lives of the people who already live in Britain at that time. The novel encompasses a complex structure of multiple narratives intertwined together. There