Yaa Gyasi’s bok Homecoming is a enthralling look at the lives of two half-sisters that were separated, never to meet in person. The book chronicles Esi, born in Asanteland and Effia born in Fanteland. Chapter after chapter, stories about the lives of these two women’s decedents unfold. Common themes to both women’s lives are their teaching of family history which resulted from involvement of the white men (Britsh soilders) which led to slavery, imprisonment, pain, misery and the separation or loss of family members.
I wish to focus my paper on Esi and her grandson, Kojo Freeman. Kojo, often referred to only an Jo was the son of Ness and her husband Sam. I will also look at H Black, usually only know as H.
Esi was born in Asante to …show more content…
Ness is stolen from Esi and forced into slavery herself. Eventually is forced to marry another slave Sam. Page 84 A son named Kojo was born to them. Sam and Ness try to escape through the help of a women named Aku whom Ness met in church. After several days of running, they are found by the person they called the Devil and Ness lies telling him Kojo is dead. In reality, Aku had Sam and was to take him north to safety. Ness and Sam are returned to the plantation where all the slaves were assembled to watch the ensuing whipping. Sam was made to watch as “Ness earned her stripes that would make her too ugly to work in a house ever again.” P 87 Then Ness’s head was forcible lifted by the Devil so she would see “the rope come out, the tree branch bend, the head snap free from body.” P …show more content…
Free man. Half the ex-slaves in Baltimore had the name. Tell a lie long enough and it will turn to truth.” P 112 Kojo only had stories repeated to him by Aku to provide any background of his parents, Sam and Ness and what the South was like overall. He had grown up in Baltimore working at keeping boats afloat chinking holes. As Sam loved Ness, Kojo loved Anna. They seven children, “Agnes, Beulah, Cato, Daly, Eurias, Felicity and Gracie. It seemed like he and Anna were going to have one child for every letter in the alphabet.”P 114 Anna, then pregnant with baby number eight only referred to the baby in her womb as “H.”
Aku and Anna both cleaned house for the Mathison family, white sympathizers whom worried over talk of the “Fugitive Slave Act”P. 123 which could endanger Kojo mainly, and separate him from him family. While his family had papers stating their freedom from slave-hood, Kojo did not.
One day nearing time for her baby, Anna disappeared and Kojo walked home trying to imagine life without Anna. He was aware now, what had become known as the “Bloodhound Law”P 126 Kojo having lost Sam and Ness thought of Aku as his mother. She held him and told him stories about his parents and the land of the Fantes and the
I wish to focus my paper on Esi and her grandson, Kojo Freeman. Kojo, often referred to only an Jo was the son of Ness and her husband Sam. I will also look at H Black, usually only know as H.
Esi was born in Asante to …show more content…
Ness is stolen from Esi and forced into slavery herself. Eventually is forced to marry another slave Sam. Page 84 A son named Kojo was born to them. Sam and Ness try to escape through the help of a women named Aku whom Ness met in church. After several days of running, they are found by the person they called the Devil and Ness lies telling him Kojo is dead. In reality, Aku had Sam and was to take him north to safety. Ness and Sam are returned to the plantation where all the slaves were assembled to watch the ensuing whipping. Sam was made to watch as “Ness earned her stripes that would make her too ugly to work in a house ever again.” P 87 Then Ness’s head was forcible lifted by the Devil so she would see “the rope come out, the tree branch bend, the head snap free from body.” P …show more content…
Free man. Half the ex-slaves in Baltimore had the name. Tell a lie long enough and it will turn to truth.” P 112 Kojo only had stories repeated to him by Aku to provide any background of his parents, Sam and Ness and what the South was like overall. He had grown up in Baltimore working at keeping boats afloat chinking holes. As Sam loved Ness, Kojo loved Anna. They seven children, “Agnes, Beulah, Cato, Daly, Eurias, Felicity and Gracie. It seemed like he and Anna were going to have one child for every letter in the alphabet.”P 114 Anna, then pregnant with baby number eight only referred to the baby in her womb as “H.”
Aku and Anna both cleaned house for the Mathison family, white sympathizers whom worried over talk of the “Fugitive Slave Act”P. 123 which could endanger Kojo mainly, and separate him from him family. While his family had papers stating their freedom from slave-hood, Kojo did not.
One day nearing time for her baby, Anna disappeared and Kojo walked home trying to imagine life without Anna. He was aware now, what had become known as the “Bloodhound Law”P 126 Kojo having lost Sam and Ness thought of Aku as his mother. She held him and told him stories about his parents and the land of the Fantes and the