Summary Of Josephine's Nineteen Thirty-Seven

“Nineteen Thirty-Seven” is narrated by Josephine. Her mother is imprisoned as if she’s a witch. Before she was born her mother swam across a blood filled river to Haiti from the Dominican Republic. Each year Josephine and her mother performed rituals at the Massacre River. When Josephine visits her very sick mother, she doesn’t even talk to her. Later on her mother dies, Jacqueline another ritual performer takes Josephine to see her body burned. Josephine is perceived as an daughter in distress. She doesn’t know how to connect with her mother. Although instead of being ashamed she tries to cope with the life she lives. Also she is overwhelmed with the power that is being given to her, and with all she receives, she doesn’t know how to express it. Someone might fear
Also for a women or even a male that went through as much as she did you’d expect her to be timid, or to shy away from the life she lives. Although she isn’t timid at all. This fear benefits people in power because they become unpredictable.

Princesse “Seeing Things Simply” Princesse is a drunk who is very flirtatious. She goes to visit Catherine, a foreign painter. Princesse poses nude while Catherine paints and talks to her about art. Princesse feels uncomfortable at first. Although she doesn’t mind as long no one else can see her. Sometimes Catherine paints her outdoors. When Catherine’s mentor dies she goes to Paris without telling Princesse. When she returns, she gives Princesses a nude painting of her by the ocean. Although she feels heartbroken, Princesse is inspired to create art herself. Princesse is modest, and