Annie John | Miss Annie Victoria John
The title character is a precocious young girl growing up in an Edenic garden governed by her loving mother. This changes with the onset of puberty and the declaration of independence her mother imposes on her. A civil war breaks out between them not unlike the Angelic war of Paradise Lost. The more Annie struggles to be distant and different from her mother, the more alike they become. In the end, Annie leaves the island with her own trunk, calling to mind the exodus her mother made from Dominica years before.
As the narrator of the story, Annie is at liberty to fabricate reality...
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