“Tetiyette and the Devil” is a story about a seventeen-year-old Guadeloupian girl. She has several opportunities to be in a relationship and turns them all down because of how she viewed the gentlemen on the outside. She then meets a man dressed in gold and is instantly in love. Little did she know the man she chose was the devil. This shows a message of pure selfishness. She turns down all these guys because of the way they look on the outside rather than getting to know what’s on the inside. But accepts the devil because of how he dressed assuming he has money.
Before anxiously wanting to marry the man of her dreams her mother warns her of the evil her husband is going to bring into her life. Of course, the daughter lies and tries to tell her mother that everything is fine. Which later in the story bites her in the butt when she cries to her mom and dad by telling them how evil her husband is. All they responded to her was a good “I told you so”. Using repetition, she tells her mom, dad and little brother “Bel-air-drum” while explaining her husband to them. Authors tend to use repetition for a better way of remembering the story. Finally, after hesitating to get up the little brother did and grabbed a sharp knife and headed upstairs to cut the devils belly where half of his sister was.
I think this story is meant to be read by girls around the same age of when it’s appropriate to get married in Guadeloupe. It shows them how this girl made the one mistake of not listening to her parents. It sends a message showing you’re responsible for your own actions
Works cited
Cesaire, Laurent, I and L. 1991.Green Cane Juicy Flotsam. New Brunswick, New jersey. Rutgers University press.
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