Deceptive Calm

[Mireille Soumahoro]

08 November, 2024
Deceptive calm
Recommended

The whole book is written in a very easy language, in a very light tone.
The sentences and their meanings are put in a simple manner to be grasped by anyone, even by the ones that are not very much savvy readers. It’s in everyday language and straightforward. You don’t need a dictionary or an encyclopedia to understand everything.
The story and the book are well organized because you can notice that the ideas follow in ones after the others. The Author starts from general and then goes deeper into details. She starts by talking about a city and end up with talking about a hospital with doctors and surgeons. You can also see by the medicine vocabulary that she mentions that she did some research about this field. The medicine wording is specific, specialized, adjusted to the circumstances and appropriate. She demonstrated too that each doctor has his own specialization.
The subjects she talks about are diversified: Politics, Military, Family, Love, Friendship, and Race.
She gives an example on how the narrator loves her mother’s sewing kit and that her great grandfather used objects that gave him supernatural powers.
The author put a black family in context in their daily life. She brought on the surface the race struggle of black people and the unequal relationship between blacks and whites. She showed that blacks don’t only just stay in their community they also interact with whites.
She tried to bring forward the race struggles through jokes and humor, a little bit ironic. The characters almost joke with each other’s by calling themselves like a white would call them. The characters almost joke with each other’s by calling themselves like a white would call them.
We can see in this context, in their world, that a black doctor is not very common.