5 senses

Fear

1)Pray, pray hard, I fear more the revenge of the rich with their police than I fear the revenge of the gods. Better we had left him at the side of the road to perish.  (39)

2)What to do now? Even in big hospitals where they say miracles are worked men die of such wounds! ( 38)

3) Desiree hugged her patient’s hot body to her. The demon, still smiling, entered the window. Over the bowed heads of the sleeping peasants he hovered, then stood before her. She thrust the sick man behind her, she leaped to her feet and faced the demon. (46)

4) But Julian, Rich men sons must go to the big hospital for care, they must have soft beds on which to sleep, white sheets to cover them. What trouble have you brought down on our heads? (34)

5)Villagers begant o voice their concern: What if neither M nor Julian found his home? What if this grand homme died in their little village? The police might come. The police were not known to be gentle with poor peasants.  (37)

Desperation   

1) What had happened to M. Julian? Had he found the young man’s family? Had he gone to the police? What, then? Had the police thrown him in jail? Were they on  thier way her to punish the villagers? Old man that he was--after so long and hard a life---how much more did he have to bear?  (38)

2) Monsieur Julian, where is her? She rocked in despair. Dear Jesus, what have I done that my old age should guard only memories of despair! You gods! Spiteful Agwe, boastful Damballah, who claims to hold up the world, deceitful Erzulie, whose claim is to be the mother of love, in all my years of faith, why have you sought only to destroy me?  (43)

3) Is it not better, then, that we be sucked down into these rising waters, to nourish another generation, than to suffer such shame!    (45)

4) Rain fell in sheets, the wind raged..........Others sank to the bottom of the rising water. (42)

5) Desire used the rainwater to wash her patient’s wounds. Sunk into unconsciousness.Then she wanted to keep him in dry, but as air grew wet, impossible.  (43)

Happiness, LOVE ( from Desiree. )

1) This time he recognized her, showed gladness to see her. She went to him, knelt beside him, and looked into his eyes. He tried to speak. She puts her fingers to his lips. His eyes smiled at her. Then he closed them and slept. (40)

2)  They saw the waters rushing off, seeking outlets to the sea, and they laughed and shouted their victory. Brightness of the day.  48

3) Desire sensed the promise of new life in heat touching her through window, she looked at the man cradled in her arms. His eyes were open. Searched eyes, then smiled. Won victory over darkness, over death, they were one.  49

4) Desiree fears were only for her patient. She only cared about him. (39)

5) I promised I I will take care for this man, whenever he came, until he is well, or until his soul crosses over the Nan Guinee. (33)

Persistence:

1) What will happen to us if this pale, near white youth should lose his limb? God forbid that he die. He must not die, I shall not let him die.  44

2) But she looked down at the unconscious man and swore to him, in her heart, I will protect you. I will do battle, if battle need be done, with the gods, even with my own Agwe, to keep you alive.

3) Take him to our hut? Where is there the room? He can sleep on my mat. I have given my world to my Agwe.

4) Not so with Desiree,s he was anxious only about her young patient. .....  Her vagueness had disappeared. (38)

5) When Desiree did work with reluctance, then the old women sent her away, go back to your  young man if you must, and the girl stopped whatever she was doing and rushed to her patient. (40)

Gap between rich and poor.

1) If there were no poor, how do you think rich men would live. (19)

2) But Julian, Rich men sons must go to the big hospital for care, they must have soft beds on which to sleep, white sheets to cover them. What trouble have you brought down on our heads? (34)

3) They saw a big bird, a strange bird outlined against the clear blue sky. But Desiree knew it was no bird. I twas a carrier, and it had come for him. (50)

4) The passengers who emergend from the big bird were city men dressed in rain slickers and hip boots. Slipping and sliding, they made their way over the mounds of mud, guided by anxiosu peasants pointing the way. (50)

5) The sad eyed man had not seen her, he had looked at the women looking at him, but he had not singled her out as different from the rest, she whose eyes surely bared her caring hearts. ( 51)

6. When a bare bone is thrown to a dog, it is to sharpen his teeth, not to fill his stomach. (54)

7. When did an accustomed to cushions care for one that knowns only the jagged hardness of rocks? (54)