Analysis of the poem coolie mother?

Answer 1

Coolie Mother is about a Guyanese woman living in Guyana who works hard to achieve her goals. She is determined toearn enough money to send her son Harilall to school in Georgetown which was a more prestigious school. jasmattie has a sense of pride. She "live in bruk-down hut big like Bata shoe box" shows she was not rich and lived in a very small and old house. "Beat clothes, weed yard...for thiis body and that body and every blasted body" show some of the hard work she did. She worked "Till she foot-bottom crack and she hand cut-up" she worked until her hands and feet were damaged from all the harsh work. Jasmattie wasn't easy though cause "curse swarm from she mouth like red-ants" which means she bused and swore alot. What is the most amazing part is that even when Jasmattie was sick with something David never mentioned "she cough blood on the groung but MASH it in", she could have been sick with cancer but she moved on and did not let it stop her "Because Jasmattie heart hard, she mind set hard" she was a tough and determined woman. Why was she working so hard "to save one-one slow penny? "She son Harilall got to go shool on Georgetown" that is why, but not only must he got to the high class school but he "must wear clean starch pants, or they go laugh at he". She had pride she wanted to make the best out of him so he would "not turn out like he rum-sucker chamar dadee" who was a non-supportive alcoholic.