1937
Josephine: narrator. Lives in Ville Rose, where many artistic people lives.
Her mother: is in jail( the condition inside the jail isn't good since she said it smells bad.) put into prison because of dabbling. Accused for killing the baby as a witch. Wanting to break the cold between her mother, she said "manman, did you fly?"
Beaten to death because they don't know how to cure her sickness.
Josephine's grandmother: killed by Diminican repupiblican soldiers
The guards: makes the prisoners pour ice on each other every night. Proving that they're treated badly and inhuman. Also how she saw many of them have bruises.
Jacqueline: came visiting Josephine in a midnight, told her that her mother is dying. (Josephine did not trusted this lady at first because she was asking her questions, wanting her to prove that she is the one that went to the river with her mother before)
This story tells a dark side of the life back in 1937 in Haiti society. Her mother might be a powerful lady because magic is being applied on her, but people did not like women acting powerful (?) during those days.
Her mother's ability to fly might not be physically flying with wings but her braveness and a symbol of freedom from Dominican to Haiti.
A Wall of Fire Rising
Lili: a mother, housewife. Worried about her husband obsession with the balloon.
Little guy: goes to school. Reads the monologue about Haitian revolution.
Guy: works in the Sugar mill but doesn not like his job at all. Fascinations about the hot air balloon. Did not want to live like his father, poorly for his whole life.
The Assads: Rich Haitian family that help runs sugar mill in Shantytown.
When Guy kept on telling Lili to take good care of little guy and saying how did not want to live like his father, it is suspending and foreshadowing to his death.
The hot air balloon might be a symbol of hope for guy.
His wife did not choose to close his eyes--> because he liked looking up at the sky.
What little guy have been reading and memorizing, the monologue, is reflecting to his father's thoughts and the Haitian society.
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