Summer Assignment #2

In the "now"  chapters the main character (which still hasn't been named) just wants to get out of the darkness that he's stuck in. He feels like he is going insane as he thinks his life through because he's starting to believe in some of the voodoo that he's been told about. In the "then" chapters,  Toussaint  wants all of Haiti to be free, he wants the slaves to be free, which he's partly achieved, and he wants to set up a new government of all Africa Americans.  Some themes that are beginning to appear in my book are don't take revenge, but achieve justice. This is shown when the the author wrote "It seemed to him, lying there, that there were three kinds of slaves, three kinds of people. There were those who were so filled with hate by their experience.... There were those who were so filled with sadness by their experience.... In the darkness, Toussaint fancied that he was the third kind of person, and to fire his soul, to fill himself with a sense of the need for justice...." Since Toussaint is the leader of the revolution, he is not seaking revenge against the French, who made him a slave, but is looking for justice for all the African American slaves. This book is structured so that every other chapter changes time periods, going back and forth from now to then.