Stories From: Over Our Way - Millicent
Millicent was a girl that had entered fourth standard and totally consumed the once normal class in her affairs. Everything was normal; Fourth Standard was a very normal class until Millicent came in her red organdy dress, and sometimes yellow, until she was told told to change the dress and get a uniform, which she refused, but had to wear it anyway.
She made herself a gang that she pampered with all her money so they could stay, and she withdrew people from their friends with her possessions. She had the class erupting in a burst of quarells and fights.
She made fights with everyone that wasn't included in her gang, and those people had quarells among themselves.
She had 'proven' herself to be the richest, prettiest, and smartest girl in Fourth Standard, but that was until the end of term tests came about.
She had boasted to all her 'friends', that she would come first in everything, and already she was throwing parties with her 'friends' for the knew she had came first.
However, she was wrong. The class waited expectantly to hear Millicent's name first in the list of grades, but her name was last.
She was never counted as a part of the class since then, and everyone went back to their normal doings without her, and reconnected with their friends.
This story took place in Trinidad, and was written by Merle Hodge.
She made herself a gang that she pampered with all her money so they could stay, and she withdrew people from their friends with her possessions. She had the class erupting in a burst of quarells and fights.
She made fights with everyone that wasn't included in her gang, and those people had quarells among themselves.
She had 'proven' herself to be the richest, prettiest, and smartest girl in Fourth Standard, but that was until the end of term tests came about.
She had boasted to all her 'friends', that she would come first in everything, and already she was throwing parties with her 'friends' for the knew she had came first.
However, she was wrong. The class waited expectantly to hear Millicent's name first in the list of grades, but her name was last.
She was never counted as a part of the class since then, and everyone went back to their normal doings without her, and reconnected with their friends.
This story took place in Trinidad, and was written by Merle Hodge.
Stories From: Over Our Way - The Devils of Rose Hall
This story took place in Jamaica, West Indies. And, as, Jean D'Costa said, she got the story from her uncle in 1920.
It it centered around the Rose Hall Great House which was a scary place because it had a strange background, but it was, and still is, a famous tourist attraction.
Jean D'Costa's uncle and his friends knew about a pastor named Rev. MacGregor, and since the Reverend always preached about black magic and those things and how they weren't real or right, they sent him a letter daring him to take a night cap in the Rose Hall Great House on Friday the 13th of November all by himself.
He accepted to do what the letter had requested, and so some church members followed him to the Great House, but left as they got there, after seeing to it that the Reverend was okay,
He had stayed there the one night where he encountered some weird things, which he ran away by using the name of the Lord, and so he was fine, and was able to preach about it the next Sunday.
It it centered around the Rose Hall Great House which was a scary place because it had a strange background, but it was, and still is, a famous tourist attraction.
Jean D'Costa's uncle and his friends knew about a pastor named Rev. MacGregor, and since the Reverend always preached about black magic and those things and how they weren't real or right, they sent him a letter daring him to take a night cap in the Rose Hall Great House on Friday the 13th of November all by himself.
He accepted to do what the letter had requested, and so some church members followed him to the Great House, but left as they got there, after seeing to it that the Reverend was okay,
He had stayed there the one night where he encountered some weird things, which he ran away by using the name of the Lord, and so he was fine, and was able to preach about it the next Sunday.
Stories From: Over Our Way - Ascot
Ascot, by Olive Senior, is a story about Ascot’s escapades. The story is told from the perspective of a first person narrator called Lily. She explains to the reader that Ascot is viewed as charming by women, but is perceived as a ‘ginnal’, or con artist, by men. The story continues with a rendering of how Ascot stole Papa’s bananas from the family buttery (pantry) with hilarious consequences. He then goes to May Pen, with a relative, to become a gardener. Ascot runs out on this job and goes to Kingston, where he reportedly learnt how to drive, and then returns to ‘country’ (the interior parishes of Jamaica). His dissatisfaction with life in the country is shown in his change in attitude; from being jovial and friendly to being somber. He later announced that he was going to Florida to become a farm worker. The family later learns that Ascot had skipped the farm work in Florida via a letter from the government. The family then receives three letters, spanning a three year period, in which he updated them on his life in New York, Connecticut and Chicago. Ascot then surprises every‐one by visiting the island with his American wife. He shocks every‐one by: arriving in a big, white, rented car; pretending that he is related to the narrator, Lilly, and her family; ignoring the family that he was born into; and, most importantly, having a wife with a masters degree, despite the fact that his education ended at grade 3. He leaves the ‘country’ (parish) for Kingston with a very proud mother in his wake.