write the charactetstic of popo and fifina from the story popa and fifina :children of haiti written by langston hughes (I will follow you if you gave the correct answer that i need)
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The novel opens as Papa Jean, Mamma Anna and little Popo and Finina, along with baby Pensia are approaching Cape Haiti. They are moving from the countryside where Papa Jean had supported them by farming, to the town where he can become a fisherman.
In this brilliantly and economically constructed novel, we follow the family’s progress and get a solid picture of life of the everyday Haiti person in the late 1920s. There really isn’t much of a story in the sense of plot line and complications followed by resolution. Rather, this is like verbal snapshots, bits and pieces of everyday life in the Cape Haiti of the novel (Cap Haitien).
The novel is written for American children who are assumed to be unfamiliar with Haiti, thus things that Bontemps and Hughes assume will not be familiar to the American audience are explained and compared with the typical way of doing things in the U.S. An early example is the practice of how meals are presented in the Haitian household:
When he (Popo) returned, Mamma Anna and Fifina were in the yard. Mamma Anna had unpacked her little charcoal stove, and Fifina stood holding the kettle in which the food would be cooked.
The sun was sliding down the sky fast now. There would not be time to cook a kettle of beans and rice, the usual peasant dish in Haiti, so Mamma Anna simply boiled a few plantains — the huge Haitian banana that went with every meal. Then she warmed over a pot of meat they had brought from their old home. While the fire burned and the pot sizzled, Mamma Anna squatted, resting her elbows on her knees. When she thought the food was warm enough, she filled Popo’s and Fifina’s small plates, which they carried a few yards away and placed on the ground.
Papa Jean was still down on the beach. Popo could see him standing beside the little boats, examining the catches of the fishermen, making motions with his hands as he talked, and evidently asking many questions. After a while, the fishermen started up a path to the road, and Papa Jean returned to his house. Popo finished his plate and asked for more. Mamma Anna explained that she had no plantains left, but that she was about to boil some yams of which he might have a helping when they were done.
In the meantime Papa Jean reached the house with several fine fish that he had procured from the fishermen. Mamma Anna began at once to clean these. And when the yams were done she put the fish in the kettle.
If Mamma Anna had lived in the United States, she probably would have cooked her entire meal before she allowed her children to begin eating. But her stove was very small, and so she cooked one thing at a time — in no particular order. And her children ate what she cooked as soon as it was ready.