TI-JEAN AND HIS BROTHERS BY DERECK WALCOTT
GENRE: TRAGIC COMEDY
NARRATIVE: FRAME NARRATIVE
STRUCTURE: TRIPARTITE-THREE SCENES REPRESENT THREE BROTHERS
SPEECH: DIALECT
FABLE
CHARACTERS:
- GRO-JEAN: ELDEST, STRONGEST, REFERS TO HIMSELF AS THE MAN WITH THE IRON FIST.
- MI-JEAN: THE SECOND CHILD WHO IS BOOK SMART, HOWEVER, HE IS NOT STREET SMART
- TI-JEAN: THE YOUNGEST CHILD WHO IS SMART AND FOLLOWS HIS INSTINCTS IN ORDER TO OVERCOME THE DEVIL.
OTHER CHARACTERS:
- PAPA BOIS/ THE DEVIL/OLD MAN/BOLOM
- FROG, FIREFLY, CRICKET, AND BIRD
- THE MOTHER
SETTING:
- THE FOREST/TRINIDAD
PLOT:
PROLOGUE:
- THE FROG IS RELAYING THE STORY OF TI-JEAN AND HIS BROTHERS TO THE OTHER CREATURES IN THE FOREST.
- THE DEVIL OFFERS TI-JEAN AND HIS BROTHERS A DEAL, WHERE IF THEY GET HIM UPSET THEN THEY WILL GET TO LIVE IN WEALTH FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES; HOWEVER IF THE DEVIL GETS THEM UPSET THEY WILL BE EATEN.
SCENE ONE:
- GROS-JEAN LEAVES HOME TO WORK ON A PLANTATION.
- HE MEETS THE DEVIL WHO TAKES ON THE FORM OF A PLANTER.
- HE REFUSES TO LEARN GROS-JEANS NAME, WHICH ANGERS HIM AND RESULTED IN HIM BEING EATEN.
SCENE TWO:
- MI-JEAN WHO WANTS TO BE A LAWYER LEAVES HOME AND LIKE GRO-JEAN MEETS THE DEVIL WHO DISGUISES HIMSELF AS A PLANTER.
- MI-JEAN PLANS TO BEAT THE DEVIL WITH SILENCE AND SMILES, WHICH FRUSTRATED THE DEVIL AT FIRST.
- THE DEVIL ANGERS MI-JEAN BY COMPARING HIS INTELLIGENCE TO THAT OF THE GOAT. HE WAS THEN EATEN.
SCENE THREE:
- TI-JEAN WHO IS THE YOUNGEST DEFIES HIS MOTHER'S REQUEST AND LEAVES HOME.
- HE HAS FAITH IN GOD AND IS NOT AFRAID OF THE DEVIL.
- HE MADE THE DEVIL CRY, LAUGH AND ANGRY.
- AFTER WINNING THE BET AGAINST THE DEVIL, HE ASKED FOR THE BOLOM TO BE BORN.
THEMES:
- GOOD VERSUS EVIL
- IDENTITY
- COLONIZATION
PROPS:
- FISHING LINE
- BOOK
- BUNDLE OF WOOD
- FIRE
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