![]() ![]() These changes, and many others, are used to illustrate the unbridgeable divide between children and adults. The expression of their faces became more candid, and yet more mask-like: hiding less, there was also less to hide.” The tone of their voices changed, and they began to talk much slower, to move more slowly and elaborately. To the children, the whole nature of the adults “seemed to be breaking up, like ice melting. Then there is a most dramatic change that overtakes everyone at the bazaar on St Lucia after a few gallons of an enticing alcoholic drink called “Hangman’s Blood” has been passed around. ![]() Later we witness the accidental, split-second change from life to death on board the Clorinda, and also, when the ship lands, the apparently magical change of women into men. In the first chapter we are introduced to the social and cultural changes that took place in Jamaica during the 19th century. ![]()
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