Question

(i) What was the laca sa de Mama in the family?What had the author heard of Mama as a young woman?

(ii)What did the changing face of the house reflect?

(iii)How did the narrator’s Grandmother assert herself?

(iv)Why did Mama not keep the little golden key hidden?
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Answer 1

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(i) What was the laca sa de Mama in the family?What had the author heard of Mama as a young woman?

• To all of us in the family it is known as la casa de Mama. It is the place of our origin; the stage for our memories and dreams of Island life. I had heard that Mama had been a great beauty in her youth, and the belle of many balls.

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(ii)What did the changing face of the house reflect?

• In his childhood, it sat on stilts; this was before it had a downstairs—it rested on its perch like a great blue bird-not a flying sort of bird, more like a nesting hen, but with spread wings. As each of their eight children was born, new rooms were added. So that there was a chronology to it, like the rings of a tree.

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(iii)How did the narrator’s Grandmother assert herself?

• There was the monstrous wardrobe Mama kept locked with a little golden key she did not hide. This was a test of her dominion over us.

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(iv)Why did Mama not keep the little golden key hidden?

• We never reached for the little key lying on the top of her Bible on the dresser. God’s word was her security system.

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