Brother Man Questions

Some conflicts in Brother Man include:
1) Minette - the problem Minette had was the fact that she loved Brother Man and he did not want her in the same way.  In the book she tries as hard as she can to show him how she feels but him being the person he is he doesnt believe that they are meant to be together.  He doesnt believe this at first because of the fact that he took her in from off the street and he only saw her as a daughter.

2) Brother Man - the problem Brother Man had was the fact that the people who he had been helping during their times of need began turning against him partly because he was a Rasta and they thought he had done bad.

3) Papacita - the problem Papacita had was that he wanted Minette and she did not want him for she was in love with Brother Man.  Another problem he had was with Girlie. She was being a pest to him with always wanting to know of his wareabouts.  Papacita also hated Brother Man.

4) Girlie - her problem was that she was being abused by Papacita.  In my point of view, she loved him and maybe thought that the only way she could let him stay was to let him do as he pleased.  He was a womanizer and although she hated it she did nothing about it.  She kept letting all the anger build up inside until she did something wrong.  To top it all off, I think that she was blinded by love.

5) Cordelia - her problem was that she was so caught up with making her son well that she ended up making a decision that caused her her life and that of her son.  She betrayed Brother Man more than once.  Even though he helped her get well and even gave her money to go take her son to a doctor, she still ended up taking his kindness for granted and going to Bra Ambo for help with her son. She began going crazy and ended up killig her son then hanging herself.

6) Jesmina - her problem was that she allowed her sister to live her life for her.  She thought that because her sister had a son and the father was not around that she owed her the world.  After Cordelia started to go to Bra Ambo for help she began doing things that made Jesmina scared for her.  For example one time she locked Jesmina up inside of the house because she was scared that she was going to leave her.

External Conflict was used in the cases of Brother Man, Papacita, Jesmina and Girlie.

Internal Conflict was used in the cases of Cordelia and Minette.

External Conflict is a struggle between a character and outside forces while Internal Conflict is a struggle that takes place in a character's mind.

Irony

Three types of irony include:
1) Verbal Irony
2) Soctratic Irony
3) Tragic Irony

In the book Brother Man, Irony is played out close to the end of the book.  In the case of Cordelia, it is ironic that although she tried as much as she could to get help for her son she ended up killing him in the end. She didnt want him to die in the first place but thinking that Brother Man could not do anything for her son she did what she thought she had to do to save his life.  Instead of him dying of natural cause he died at the hands of his own mother.  This is ironic to me because with the way she tried to do everything thing in her power to help her son, it was she wh0 ended up killing him in the end.

Another ironic thing in the book Brother Man is in the case of Papacita and Girlie. It so happened that she was being abused physically by Papacita. I would have thought that he would have been the one to kill her because of her nagging ways and in order to get on with his life. It came to being that it was only the opposite, she was the one who killed him.  She couldnt deal with the fact that he did not want or love her anymore and she snapped.

The most ironic thing in this book is the scenes when they were beating Brother Man. In reading this book and seeing the type of person he was I never pictured that they would actually turn against him like that. People who he had helped had also joined forces against him in suddenly having a problem with him being a Rastafarian. Also with the way he acted towards Minette, I never thought that he would actually gain feelings for her.