Small Island †Andrea Levy

teeny Island is a book written by Andrea Levy mainly based on race, War and diagonal in London in 1948, the story is explain through the point of view of 4 antithetical narrators including flashbacks into their pasts. One of the narrators is sarin, who appears the charming fool a Jamaican newlywed who served in the RAF during population War II, hopes for a prosperous future in London, though his experience of racial discrimination tells him this wont be achieved easily.This is shown when he is halt from sitting next to Queenie and Arthur by the usherette and afterward heated words between them and American soldiers it leads to the death of Arthur (183-193), as tumesce even after serving for England after he rejoins civilization he is still inured poorly His young wife, Hortense, is more naive.Arriving from Jamaica via the empire windrush, hoping to take up a teaching career, as well as trying to find her former flame Michael who left Jamaica to join the RAF after being caugh t having an social function so in a desperate need to continue her dream marries a Gilbert opinion life in England would be great even she is soon in despair over cruel rejections and her struggle to make herself understood, literally and figuratively, by white working-class neighbors who dont seem to comprehend the English she erudite in her home island.However towards the end she and Gilbert bond more and eventually take in Queenies featherbed Michael to raise as their own after she plans to leave Queenies house and settle down with Gilbert Queenie is a tough, level headed survivor, with a good heart. Brought up on a pig farm in Yorkshire, from an early age she grows to hate the smell of the pigs, the squalor and the blood. With dreams of escape, she finally gets her wish when her kindly Aunt sends the learn fare to London. Queenie is open-minded and hungry for new experience. She like Hortense goes to London with hope in her heart.Despite trying to come apart herself with elocution lessons, she can never quite shake her Yorkshire vowels. However an unexpected death forces her into the arms of the educated alone rather uninspiring Bernard as to keep her dream Queenie believes that her dreams are lost to her forever.After Bernard goes to war she is forced to looking for after Bernards Mentally ill father and during this she sleeps with Michael a black serviceman she invites to her house who impregnates her, and after Bernard doesnt return from the war she later invites a man she had earlier met Gilbert after he rescued her father in lawto stay at her house along with his wife who would be arriving as well as a few other lodgers. Queenie and Hortense initially clash however unsurprisingly due(p) to their similarity in life they eventually bond and become as close to friends as they could be which eventually ends in Queenie giving them the baby she had with Hortenses former companion Michael.However after Bernard returns he blatantly shows unhappines s as black civilians living at the house Did they have to be coloured however Queenie seems to be the only white soul in the book who doesnt judge a person based on the colour of their skin Bernard is the husband of Queenie Blighs bank clerk husband who seems to be quite stuck up and racist and he is shown to be the complete opposite of Queenie, his dad Arthur who served in World War 1 suffers from shellshock leaving him to not speak after meeting queenieBernard changes from being repressed and motionless to being quite lively and affectionate after marrying queenie whom he loves he reverts back to being his closed in(p) down self and leaves to go and join up with the army where he befriends a guy named maxi however after his death Bernard who seemed the gentle and nonviolent type he got in a fight, and cheated on Queenie with a seemingly under aged prostitute and got what he thought was a life backbreaking syphilis however It seems to be just a simple Flu.And after two years r emote he then goes to see Maxis Family and then eventually returns home to the shock of queenie and I was collapsed sitting on the pavement however Bernard simply replies Indeed when Queenie talks to him showing his boringness which Queenie seems to abhor The story starts with a flashback to the past when Queenie was a child. Levy starts with this is as it starts with a showing of the racism as queenie calls the British empire exhibition as Africa due to the black people there showing that racism was imprinted onto children at a young age as well go on queenie, osculate him, kiss him is as if the black man has some sort of disease so Emily is saying I hardihood you to do it