Hester(Lauren Steele)a mother of five children fathered by five different men has dealt with many problems in In The Blood by Suzan Lori Parks, she is blocked from the power of knowledge because she doesn't know how to write. The only letter she can write is “A.” Hester and her children live under a bridge, where people throw trash and someone has wrote the word “slut” on the wall. Hester asks her bright son in the beginning of the play Jabber (Kyle Fox Douglas) what it says, but he loves her too much to tell her it shows that Jabber and Hester have a very strong bond.Even though Hester is a mother of 5 she still has many ambitions and goals she wants to accomplish but has no support from the community. All this torment and abuse from the
