Notes for K.K

Nineteen Thirty-Seven

“When I saw the tear I thought, surely, that my mother had died.”

• Clearly shows she cares for her mother deeply.

“ She closed her eyes at the moment of contact, her wrist shaking. “

• The old women clearly had some sort of fond over the Madonna. It was clearly special.

“You're here to see a prisoner”

• Her mother is in prison because people thought she was this fire creature that killed children.

“These days, her skin barely clung to her bones, falling in layers, flaps, on her face and neck”

• Describing what her mom looks like since being thrown into prison

“ Her teeth were a dark red, as though cakes with blood with from the initial beating during her arrest.  At times, she seemed happier to see the Madonna than she was to see me.”

• I liked the way she described her mother here, but I also noticed her mother paid more attention to the Madonna than her own daughter who could not even speak to her.

“ They have not treated me badly, she said. She smoothed her hands over her baldhead.”

• This made me think a bit. Because she says they do not treat her bad, but her teeth are stained red with blood and there is no way blood can stay on your teeth for that long. She Had to have gotten beaten recently. Also, they arrested her for some dumb reason.

“ And before the women went to sleep, the guards made them throw tin cups of cold water at one another so that their bodies would not be able to muster up enough heat to grow those wings made of flames, fly away in the middle of the night, slip into the slumber of innocent children and steal their breath.”

• Just another way they are degrading her and this can clearly show that they don't care for her health at all. They don't care if she dies.

“ She was being pulled along  by two policemen, each tugging at one of her arms as she dragged her feet. The women we had been staying with carried her dead son by the legs.”

• When the mother was blamed

“ I kissed her on the cheek and tried to embrace her, but she quickly pushed me away.”

• Her mother did not want affection. She is… broken

“ Let her flight be joyful,  I said, and mine too”

• She is kind of saying goodbye

“ God only knows what I have got under my skin from being here. I may die of tuberculosis, or perhaps there are worms right now eating me inside.”

• Her mother does not even care about dying anymore.

“ When I am completely gone, maybe you will have someone to take my place. Maybe you will have a person. Maybe you will have some flesh to console you.”

• She hopes for the best for her mother

“ Oh, now you talk, she said, when I am nearly gone.”

• She was upset that her daughter didn't talk to her.

“ Sister, I do not want to be the one to tell you, she said, but your mother is dead”

• Her “sister?” found out her mother died.

“Each women was either wearing or holding something that belonged to her.”

• Clearly her mother was important to many people.

“Beaten down in the middle of the yard. She whispered. Like a dog said another women.”

• Her mother did NOT die of natural causes, she died because she was beaten to death.

“They said Prison could not cure her.”

• Prison is not a place to be cured, it's a place to serve time.

“Let her flight be joyful, I said to Jacqueline. And mine and yours too.”

• She wants to just, let go.

A Wall Of Fire rising

“ My love, Boukman is the hero of the play.”

• Her son is playing the hero of the play, signifies to me how strong he is.

“Within seconds, Guy was in the air hurtling down towards the crowd. Lili held her breath as she watched him fall. He crashed not far from where Lili and the boy were standing, his blood immediately soaking the landing spot. “

• He killed himself!!! He was desperate.

“He is mine, she said to young assad. He is my family. He belongs to me.”

• Claims him.  Wants people to know that he is hers.”

“She leaned in very close to get a better look at Guys face.  There was little left of that countenance that she had loved so much.”

• His face must have gotten smashed in because she can't recognize.

“ No, leave them open, Lilli said, My husband. He likes to look at the sky.”

• I feel like it's a metaphor for something.

*Sorry there are not as many notes as the last one, but i did not feel like there was that much important information*