The Sugar Cane Alley Essay

Having gone through the slides and the supplementary reading comment (3-page paper) On the two characters in the film who leave a lasting impression on you. Explain why you find them impressive with detailed references to the text.

Ma’man Tin
Her perseverance for her grandson education
Even in her old age, she does the variety of jobs to pay the partial tuition that his scholarship could not cover.
Jose
His attitude to everything especially the respect he has for his grandma is fantastic
When his friends came into his grandma house, he told them to back off to respect her property

The Sugar Cane Alley Film showcased many important aspects of the colonization of the white man on blacks in Martinique. Even though they were no longer slaves, the villagers received poor treatment from the whites. Thus, the blacks preserve through opportunities of education. The protagonists, Jose,

His guardian is Ma'man Tine (M'Man Tine, a wonderfully tough, pipe-smoking old woman who is raising the orphaned Jose on the sugar plantation where she has been a cane-cutter all her life. ). They live in a small shack. At the beginning of the film, the adults are having to work in the fields leaving the children alone. The kids burn down a house and consume alcohol. The house owner beats the children with a belt. The white field owner finds out of their mischievous actions imposing them on cutting sugar cane along the adults. However, Ma'man Tine does not allow Jose to work because the money they get will not improve his conditions in the future. She rather makes him go to school. Jose promptly becomes in love with education, beaming with a giant smile each time his grandma asks him about what he learned in class. As he graduates from his school, the professor tells them, Jose has an opportunity to continue his education in Fort-de- France through receiving a scholarship only if he passes a