Annie And Jose Analysis

The forces that alienate Annie and Jose are their skin color, their education, and the European colonization. There are many things that oppress Annie and Jose from blossoming into the best they can be. They both were born into struggling families and had ancestors that were slaves. Annie is “more” free per se, Jose is a child during the time the slaves are now workers. Even though they are workers, they are still basically slaves. Their education is very limited because of where they live and their resources are not good. They are seen as lesser therefore they are not believed to deserve a quality education. Most kids don't even try because they feel like there is no hope for themselves. Since they were black their parents didn't make a lot
Annie and Jose had different ways they dealt with racial prejudice. Annie’s instinct was to run away from all the suffering and unhappiness, and Jose decided to stay and face his problems. " Just at that moment, I was not feeling sad at all. I was feeling how much I never wanted to see a boy climb a coconut tree again, how much I never wanted to see the sun shine day in, day out again, how much I never wanted to see my mother bent over a pot cooking me something that she felt would do me good when I ate it, how much I never wanted to feel her long, bony fingers against my cheek again, how much I never wanted to hear her voice in my ear again, how much I longed to be in a place where nobody knew a thing about me and liked me for just that reason, how much the whole world into which I was born had become an unbearable burden and I wished I could reduce it to some small thing that I could hold underwater until it died.” (Kincaid 127) She was feeling very depressed about her situation in this moment. This quote shows how much pain she has had to endure in her
"What just deserts, I thought, for I did not like Columbus. How I loved this picture—to see the usually triumphant Columbus, brought so low, seated by the bottom of the boat watching things go by.” (Kincaid 77) Many are taught that Columbus is a good man, yet the image of him in chains makes her feel delight because it shows truth to the man who brought colonization to her island. Annie’s thoughts about Columbus root back to her thoughts about slavery. Annie thinks the way Africans were colonized by the Europeans would have been much different than if the Europeans were colonized by the Africans. In Sugar Cane Alley, Jose is constantly living a world a unequality with no escape, he even sees a white man disown his own child because of his race. “De Thoral is a name that has always belonged to whites for many generations… It is not a name that belongs to Mulattos” (Sugar Cane Alley, minute 65). Someone who will have a child with a black is still rascist? Its truly heartbreaking to see anyone not be accepted even by their own blood. This was Jose life, pain. This also proved how europeans ruined black lives, they not only came and took over their land, they ruined their entire