Scene Seven - Mai’s living room - Brod is there lying down and they wonder if he is dying. The girls Flashcards
Brod says to Del ‘your mother has gone mad’
-Shows how Enid is so upset after her daughters have run away
-Shows Enid sole purpose in England was to give her daughters a better chance in life and provide for her daughters works 3 jobs
-Shows the importance of family and how losing connection with daughters has made her ‘gone mad’
-Shows how important her daughters as an immigrant as she doesn’t have any family in England losing children have ruined her
-Highlight how much children mean to a mother and how much Enid cares about her children even though they have disappointed her
Brod on the table after drinking a bottle of rum to himself, he says to Mai after coming around ‘my mind gone blank’.
-Shows how he is dissolusioned England and it is affecting his mental health
Brod says ‘drinking help me forget’
-Helps him forget that he doesn’t feel sense of belonging in England, and helps him forget how she misses his family
(all the experiences since coming over in Windrush generation) is what drinking helps him forget
-Shows how much he misses Jamaica and how he cannot deal with England (the way he is treated in England, left his children and wife in Jamaica)
P.62 - Del talks about the girls’ father ‘beating’ Enid and how Enid protected them from it all.
-‘She never wants you and Viv to see anything back in the house’.
-Shows how Enid doesn’t want her children to see how badly her husband treated her due to racism in Smithfield Meat Market
-Shows how Enid sheilded her daughters from what had happened to her (highlights her pride and care for her daughters)
