Crossing The Mangrove

During this week’s reading, Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Conde I found it entertaining. Throughout this reading, we view the story from different people’s point of view. The different characters within the reading made it hard to keep them separate. As the reader once I am brought to understand that each chapter would help comprehend the previous chapter and know how each individual looked at Francis Sancher I could appreciate the book in more details. The main point to me in this story is how everyone judged Francis based on his looks. No one exact a few people had anything nice to say about or to him. The views of Francis impact the town as a whole because everyone assumes him to be upper class by his life style yet no one knows his story. The author believes that honesty is the main key in telling a story. In return people downgrade her novels because of the truth that was behind each story.
The story is portrayed around Francis Sancher wake in which many people attending never knew anything about him. In Crossing the Mangrove, everyone has their own story, opinion or emotion about Francis, in which some are positive and negative. Once Francis reaches the Caribbean he is automatically characterized as unworthy because no one knew anything about him. Moise (Mosquito) is believed to have relationship with Francis because the time that was spend together. Everyone judged the relationship without ever speaking to either character. Talking to either character they will realized it is an honest relationship in Mosie helping Francis.
As the story begins to unfold everything that Francis has done unto the people surfaces after his death. Mira and Vilma both impregnated by Franics is the cause of his death. Artistid’s which is Mira brother cries that his sister was raped. “I want you to lock up the Cuban for rape”(52). In reality the truth being both woman voluntarily shared the same bed with Francis. Francis never went looking for the women they