Name: Rezah YusniarohClass/smt: A2/5NPM: 1188203075Subject: ProseA. Characters:1. 2. Florens3. Minha Mae4. Blacksmith5. The Reverend Father6. A woman on the boat7. Jacob Vaark8. DOrtega9. DOrtegas wife10. Rebekka11. Rebekkas Father12. Rebekkas Mother13. Peter Downes14. Lina15. Sorrow16. Scully17. Anne18. Judith19. Lydia20. Elizabeth21. Abigail22. Dorothea23. Widow Ealing24. Jane25. Twin26. Malaik

B. Characterization1. Florens:Born into slavery in the Province of Maryland (ca. 1674) and sold to Jacob Vaark at the age of 8, Florens is approximately 16 years old when she begins her confession to an unnamed blacksmith in the year 1690. The first chapter, and every other chapter thereafter (beginning on pages 3, 42, 79, 119, 159 and 184) are written from her point of view, addressing the blacksmith. She is very loves Blacksmith (page 2) From the day you disappear I dream and plot. To learn where you are and how to be there. The evidence that shows how Florens loves Blacksmith so much, is in page 3, I will see your mouth and trail my fingers down. You will rest your chin in my hair again while I breathe into your shoulder in and out, in and out. She is smart girl (page 59) Already Florens could read, write. Already she did not have to be told repeatedly how to complete a chore. Not only was she consistently trustworthy, she was deeply grateful for every shred of affection, any pat on the head, any smile of approval. She is strong (page 67) I never cry. Even when the woman steals my cloak and shoes and I am freezing on the boat no tears come. She doesnt not like Malaik because she jealous with Malaik who close to Blacksmith (page 134) I worry as the boy steps closer to you. How you offer and owns your forefinger. As if he is your future. Not me. I am not liking how his eyes go when you send him to play in the yard. She is very obsessed to Blacksmith (page 138) I dont hear your horse only you shout and know I am lost because your shout is not my name. Not me. Him. Malaik you shout. Malaik.

2. Minha Mae:Literally my mother in Portuguese, a minha me is the mother of Florens, born in a West African village and taken into chattel slavery after a war with a rival village. She is taken to Barbados, where she is purchased by the Portuguese Catholic Senhor DOrtega to work on his tobacco plantation in the Province of Maryland. The final chapter (beginning on page 190) is told from her perspective, addressing Florens. She loves Florens silently (page 164) One chance, I thought. There is no protection but there is difference. You stood there in those shoes and the tall man laughed and said he would take me to close the debt. I knew Senhor would not allow it. (page 165) Oh Florens. My love. Hear a tua mae.

3. Blacksmith: He is black man but he is free. (page 43) Learning from Mistress that he was a freeman doubled her anxiety. He had rights, then, and privileges, like Sir. He could cure diseases. (page 35) She wants you here as much as I do. For her it is to save her life. He made Florens heart broke because he rejected her feeling. (page 139) On my knees I reach for you. Crawl to you. You step back saying get away from me.I have shock. Are you meaning I am nothing to you?

4. The Reverend Father: He is kind. He taught to read to Florens and Lina. (page 4) Once every seven days we learn to read and write. We are forbidden to leave the place so the four of us hide near the marsh. My mother, me, her little boy and Reverend Father. He is forbidden to do this but he teaches us anyway watching out for wicked Virginians and Protestants who want to catch him.

5. A Woman on The Boat: She is cunning woman. (page 5) A woman comes to me and says stand up. I do and she takes my cloak from my shoulders. Then my wooden shoes. She walks away.

6. Jacob Vaark:A free white man, born in England to a mother who died in childbirth, disowned by his Dutch father, and raised in a Protestant orphanage, Vaark first comes to the New World as an agent of The Dutch West India Company trading fur and lumber, but turns to farming (and, later, the rum trade) after he inherits 120 acres of land in the Northeast from an uncle. The second chapter (beginning on page 10) is written from his point of view in 1682, eight years prior to the other chapters. He is a confident man. (page 8) Picking his way with growing confidence, he arrived in the ramshackle village sleeping between two huge riverside plantations. He has a great sense of justice. (page 8-9) In Jacob Vaarks view, these were lawless laws encouraging cruelty in exchange for common cause, if not common virtue. He is a humble man too. (page 14) The condition of the hand-kerchief he pulled from his pocket embarrassed him as much as his need for it. He has a sense of humanity. (page 20) Whatever it was, he couldnt say there surrounded by a passel of slaves whose silence made him imagine an avalanche seen from a great distance. Romantic man. (page 85) My northern star, he called his wife.

7. DOrtega:An aristocratic Portugese tobacco planter and slave dealer who owns and resides upon Jublio, the plantation in Maryland where Florens is conceived and born into slavery. DOrtega, the third son of a Portuguese aristocrat, did not expect to inherit wealth or property, so instead went to Portugese-controlled Angola to make his fortune in the slave trade. He soon established Jublio in Maryland, a proprietary colony established in 1632 as a refuge for British Catholics, who had been persecuted throughout the English Reformation. It is DOrtega who sells Florens to Jacob Vaark in order to settle a debt. Not patient. (page 14) Footfalls, loud and aggressive, were followed by DOrtegas call.

8. DOrtegas wife Carping woman. (page 15) DOrtegas wife was chattering magpie, asking pointless questions How do you manage living in snow? and making sense-defying observations,

9. RebekkaA free white woman, born (ca. 1660) the only daughter to a family of eight in a one-room garret in filthy, crowded, lower-class London during the contentious days of the English Restoration, Rebekka would have survived the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London before coming to the New World at the age of 16 to become the wife of Jacob Vaark. The sixth chapter (beginning on page 84) is written from her point of view in 1690. Independent woman. (page 18) From the moment he saw his bride-to-be struggling down the gangplank with bedding, two boxes and a heavy satchel, he knew his good fortune. Kind woman. (page 67) but, I am only seeing how her eyes go. Their look is close to the way of the women who stare at Lina and me as we wait for the Ney brothers. Neither look scares, but it is a hurting thing. But I know Mistress has a sweeter heart. She doesnt like Sorrow. (page 49) When Sorrow arrived, trailing Sirs horse, Mistress barely hid her annoyance but admitted the place could use the help. But, her attitude change when her child died. (page 19) Yet she neither complained nor shirked her duties. If anything, she threw herself more vigorously into the farmwork, and when he traveled, as now, on business, trading, collecting, lending, he had no doubts about how his home was being managed. Rebekka and her two helpers were as reliable as sunrise and strong as posts. Besides, time and health were on their side.

10. Rebekkas Father: (page 72) Already sixteen, she knew her father would have shipped her off to anyone who would book passage and relieve him of feeding her. A waterman, he was privy to all sorts of news from colleagues, and when a crewman passed along an inquiry from a first name a search for healthy, chaste wife willing to travel abroad he was quick to offer his eldest girl.

11. Rebekkas Mother: (page 72) Rebekkas mother objected to the sale she called it that because the prospective groom had stressed reimbursement for clothing, expenses and a few supplies not for love or need of her daughter, but because the husband-to-be was a heathen living among savages.

12. Peter Downes He supports the slaves trading. (page 28-29) Africans are as interested in selling slaves to the Dutch as an English planter is in buying them. Rum rules, no matter who does the trading. Laws. What laws? Look, he went on.

13. LinaA Native American woman, raised by European colonists after her childhood village is wiped out by smallpox. At the age of 14, Lina, who is technically free but has no substantial legal rights in the colonial governments, and no tribe to return to, becomes the first servant on Vaarks new farm; her labor and memory of Native American farming techniques are crucial in making the farm productive. The fourth chapter (beginning on page 50) is written from her point of view in 1690. She is gossiper. (page 6) Lina believe it is Sirs. Says she has her reason for thinking so. When I ask what reason she says he is a man. She like Florens. (page 42) Poor Florens, thought Lina. If she is not stolen or murdered, if she finds him safe she would not return. Care. It shown when she worried about Florens. (page 63) Walking back toward the house, taking pains to avoid even looking at the new one, Lina was relieved that so far nothing bad had happened to Florens, and more frightened than ever that something would.

14. SorrowA foundling, washed ashore from a shipwreck, discovered by a sawyer, named by his wife, and raised as a servant, Sorrow is only 11 years old when she is given to Jacob Vaark because she is pregnant. This first child is born premature, and does not survive. Curly-haired, grey-eyed and described as mongrelized by the sawyer who sells her, Sorrow is most likely multiracial. Mistrusted and ostracized by Lina, she contributes little to the farm over the years, and keeps many secrets to herself. She is stricken with smallpox when the blacksmith is working at the farm, and is nursed back to health by his folk remedies. She is pregnant again when Vaark and Rebekka contract the pox; the eighth chapter (beginning on page 137) is told from her point of view at this time. She is introvert. (page 49) Not then, not ever, had she spoken of how she got there or where she had been. She likes Florens. (page 122) When Florens arrived that bitter winter, Sorrow, curious and happy to see someone new, smiled and was about to step forward just to touch one of the little girls fat braids.

15. ScullyWhite male servants indentured (in a legal arrangement comparable to wage slavery) to a nearby landowner and lent regularly to the Vaark farm as day labor in exchange for livestock grazing rights. Willard Bond, in his late 20s, should have been released from servitude at 21, but has had his debt extended repeatedly after one assault and occasional escape attempts. Scully is 22 and has been indentured since being orphaned at the age of 12; he still hopes to earn his freedom and buy a horse. The two men live, work and sleep together as a pair. The 10th chapter (beginning on page 168) is told from their mutual perspective.

16. Anne Rebekkas friend. (page 80) Anne had been sent away in disgrace by her family.

17. Judith Rebekkas friend. (page 80) were prostitutes ordered to choose between prison or exile.

18. Lydia Rebekkas friend. (page 80) Lydia was accompanied by her daughter

19. Elizabeth Rebekkas friend. (page 80) Elizabeth was the daughter, or so she said, of an important Company agent.

20. Abigail Rebekkas friend. (page 80) was quickly transferred to the captains cabin and one other,

21. Dorothea Rebekkas friend. (page 80) was a cutpurse whose sentence was the same as the prostitutes.

22. Widow Ealing She is kind. (page 105) Soon as I knock a woman opens the door. She is much taller than Mistress or Lina and has green eyes. The rest of her is a brown frock and a white cap. Red hair edges it. She is suspicious and holds up her hand, palm out, as though I might force my way in.

23. Daughter Jane (page 105) Her voice is deep, like a mans, though she looks to have my age.

24. TwinSorrows Fantasy friend. Kind and always there for Sorrow. (page 121) I am always with you, she said. That was some consolation, but it took years for sorrows steady thoughts of her baby breathing water under Linas palm to recede. With no one to talk to, she relied on Twin more and more. With her, Sorrow never wanted for friendship or conversation.

25. Malaik He hates Florens (page 135) Eyes big, wondering and cold. I rise and come to him and ask what. What Malaik, what. He is silent but the hate in his eyes is loud. He wants me leaving.