Black Shack becoming a trap to give people crap
After reading Black Shack Alley, it left me with a weird empty feeling. I would say I felt quite strongly about the emotions portrayed in the book because this novel is describing just a small portion of emotions of real like events that are still happening today. Which is why it is such a powerful and emotional novel. I could see how school was a representation of colonialism in a way of still having control over minorities even after so called “post-colonialism”. Because even though, people such as Jose think they are gaining their individualism back, they are still being controlled by the same system that colonized them, just in a more discrete (but also not so discrete) form. In Black Shack Alley, people are forced into obeying because if not, there is little room for survival. In my eyes, Jose’s grandmother M’man Tine is a symbol of hope and perseverance through hard times and it is just sad to see such innocent people and kids grow up in a place where death and sickne...