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Cook who is the mother of chapel, 2nd wife to Whitechapel, Sanders seniors’ once-upon-time concubine and Mr. Whitechapels currant slave cook. (Or at least by this chapters reckoning.)
Cook is at heart, a genuine and warm spirited person who seems only to care about her husband and son. She is obviously a devoted wife and mother who loves those two as much as one can. She has a surprising amount of intelligence for an eighteenth century slave and with that intelligence comes some morale values more highly regarded to our society than that of many of her so-called superiors.
Although she may not seem to play as major a role to the storyline as say Chapel or Whitechapel however she is still important to the story. She brings to it an emotional dimension that seems to be the foundation of Whitechapel and Chapels relationship.
She seems to be the person that, through love and respect for both characters, helps develop the mutual respect between the father and son who are so stubbornly fixed in their opposing values and attitudes towards life and slavery.
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This chapter raised several key issues as well.
Lydia, being his lover, has very similar beliefs except for the distinction that Lydia is a white woman and Chapel a black slave. It’s interesting to such events form cooks point of view. And although her point of view may work for her and her husband it may not necessarily work for young Chapel. There’s no language here that would make you think this person prides themselves on their education (like in chapter 10 pg 94 or chapter 6 pg 75 to 76) or that this person was poetic in any way like in all of chapter five. He uses short sentences; several really short ones to describe events from the point of view of Cook. If it were Whitechapel who found out however he would be one who would stop such an event where he to witness it, as his views are so strong that he would stop his son from disobeying the rules at any cost. It’s more a tale of cook’s discovery of the budding relationship between her son and her master’s daughter and of Chapels literacy. Life, for everyone, is a combination of work related duties and of personal ones. She feels proud of what her son is doing. So Instead Fred D’aguiar has used simple everyday words and metaphors that would at first seem to us to bring about the sense of simplicity when studying Cook.
Fred D’Aguiar has, in this chapter, not done what the normal writer would do to describe the mind of someone who is as poor as cook, which is to use Eighteenth century slave-slang (because Fred believes that just a person doesn’t have an education doesn’t mean that they cant have complex thoughts).
The thing I really respect about cook is how her viewpoint on slavery and her place in life didn’t affect her decision to keep chapel’s literacy secret.
The wording in chapter 8 like the sentences are those used to describe a simply person. She thinks about her duty and obligation as a mother to stop Chapel for fear of his life weighed against the fact that if she does stop him she may be holding him back from a better future.
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