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Drowning under weight and burden of being 1st generation : Idea of crossing oceans in order to achieve goal that is tied to money and middle class aspirations , oceans of time that separate memebers of this family You’re inability to nail down the rape that happened  isn’t inconsistent with what happened in Hurston, when slave women is silent and express desire to say no and especially can’t say no. (gets muddy with head and toe and hair)

Betto and junior’s violent and intense physical expression of closeness,, is actually born out of surpressed desire for touch from another male.. since haven’t had physical proximity from father, desperate attempt to re-establish contact w/other male. They haven’t been equipped with tools to show emotions, etc because it runs counter to machismo and what happens is rape.

Male anus is like female hymen and  unable to fully express desire w/each other. Leads us into closet

Quietly drowning, so subtle and other characters can’t recognize that others are in desperate need for support. If they are drowning, physically characters went from DR to Jersey but they haven’t reached a destination psych/emotional destination. Being caught by waves feels like external force like toxic masculinity  characters implicit in oppression but unlike chracters in children of sea who enter spiritual realm/destination like amniotic fluid , there is no destination for these characters , these geographic spaces are places where they reach, that liminality is their true state of being, it’s a space that occupies them. When people drown they ingest water, they have ingested patriarchy , machsismo, toxic masculinity etc. they’re taking it all in and it commands them to drown. Can’t reach destination . Struggling when you drown hastens moment when you completely are consumed by water. Any attempt to rescue someone can cause real harm to you Title could be a command. Drown. You isn’t said but understood. Toxic masculinity commands characters to drown. You drown. In drown they struggle but children of the sea they are at peace -celiane and narratator active participants in drowning and going from one realm to another.

His dad makes him wear mask and we have to think about his identity, compelling him to mask truth – just like celianne, scars make her reveal something – make whats inside wear it outside. By hiding it makes it worse, actively reveal , lose authethic identity if you mask for too long. Mask self becomes identity. He doesn’t have agency over the choice, in unveiling revealing truth would allow genuine encounter inconsistent w/macho culture w/men showing scars/boast scars because roadmap to masculine authority. Women usually hide scars. In a way ysrael emasculated by father and veil authentic identity and be integrated in boy culture. Isolated behind mask and lacks opportunity for peer support.

Father wants to mask his inability to protect his son. W/hope he doesn’t give flat characters and Ramon he makes it difficult force to witness his structure, difficult to find his way, money stolen, had to start over. Round character. Danticat :father came first to America -Junot diaz and brings his real family over not transparent and he abandons his 2 nd family so he can get 1st family and tehn abandons first. (diaz)

The kite is like the chocolate , sent it to his son . (chocolate mom works there made for children but children can’t afford it), it wasn’t a local job (wasn’t made w/dad isolated from his father no real relationship)—can’t gaze on his son b/c of masculine way can’t deal with not being able to protect him. Kite flies through sky symbol of freedom , there is a string—freedom being compromised by person holding string unlike hot air balloon , feathers, blue

Ripple in mask, can tell he was smiling, real human connection talks about wrestling and ripped away. Pg 18-19. Like he’s investigating him and if doctor or nurse were to observe, diagnosis , rafa is trying to figure out what’s wrong with him and himself. Is significant because torn or damaged identity related to father. Emphasis on father’s suggest that rafa seeks to diagnose is missing dad. Why is they’re only getting packages from abroad , why are they drowing in emotional space where father is missing. Rafa Performing manhood and takes it out on junior

VW-freeing car. Characters on the move (refuge boat, leaving Eatonville, in flight) in fiesta 1980 but they’re in American car. Why does he keep getting sick, he isn’t used to being confined and movement, like small space in apt. and even apts they break in, in this country trapped in tiny spaces. American dream is antagonist works against them, rapid speed they’re going from one space to another sickens him, the myth of America poisions them VW that they occupy, artificial space, symbol of mobility , but they yearn

Divided Island-VOX Perpetual conditons, characters from these WOC tend to be shackled to geopgraphic spaces, psychic and emotional spaces that are hostile to growth and development , celebration of whole person hood those spaces have to be filled. Raph fills space with violence, encourages assault: youth color poverty , and no adult present and makes junior more vulnerable to physical assault, fatherlessness in patriarchal society more vulnernable . Interiority is function of looking in,in diaz stays w/n DR community. Limit to exteriority or opportunites to interact w/others outside of the community. Like Alexie , diaz neocolonial forces have entered him that he is muttering proxl 9 in his sleep.

Alexie, Thomas builds a fire—characters are treated like animals , they’re confined , psych trick, characters in those larger spaces feel like they get to roam, not activiely listening, when confinement becomes noticeable, in courtroom they actively listen, higher stakes ,..then barewitness to assault on brown/indeginous life. Prison bus real cage , diverse men around state experience dispossession across racial lines..sort of like Krik,Krak.

It isn’t till they’re in confined spaces, they are under duress and control or neocapital forces that bound me to state of dispossession and that encourages active listening that allows Thomas speak. (same as Janie in court, women in 1939) Vulnerable to attack –dispossession

3RD and final continent :: when in Europe male protagonist...