Travelling to Jamaica

Hello everyone! Here it is Jean Rhys speaking again. In this post, I would like to propose a kind of artistic activity for you. However, for doing the main activity, you have to follow these two tasks:
  1. The first thing that you have to do is watching the following video that summarizes the plot of my novel Wide Sargasso Sea. Watch carefully the video and pay attention to the setting that I created in the novel.


 2. The second thing that I propose to you is watching carefully those images from the setting of my novel and a description.



















                                               

"Our garden was large and beautiful as that garden in the Bible -- the tree of life grew there. But it had gone wild. The paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell. Underneath the tree ferns, tall as forest tree ferns, the light was green. Orchids flourished out of reach or for some reason not to be touched. One was snaky looking, another like an octopus with long thin brown tentacles bare of leaves hanging from a twisted root. Twice a year the octopus orchid flowered -- then not an inch of tentacle showed. It was a bell-shaped mass of white, mauve, deep purples, wonderful to see. The scent was very sweet and strong. I never went near it." (Rhys, 1968)
Main activity: Now it is your turn. Try to create a kind of collage after seeing the video where the settings are described, and the images and descriptions of them. You can use four textures from different materials to represent the life of Jamaica and Dominica. You should write a paragraph (7 lines each texture) explaining what they transmit or what they represent from the exotic country proposed.
I hope you like this activity,
Jean Rhys.



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