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John Xiong
INTRODUCTION
- Banana man by Evan Jones. Portrays a prideful man for his bread and butter
- Mixed ethnicity in Jamaica causing a impact on the language
- Analysis of B-man has many meanings
- Through out the song, the B-Man is a (happy/carefree) guy
BACKGROUND (poem/dialect)
- Detail on imagery
- Take place on a old system country side "load up de donkey, leave de lan"
- Many language/culture having direct influence the dialect.
- Immigrants, slaves and Europeans were all there at one time and namely speaking a general language.
- The word "de" use through out the song which translate to the English word "the."
EVAN JONES
- Son of a actual banana man
- lived in harsh hill side
- now playwright, screenwriter and poet in England
- wrote due to bulling received by the UK that controlled Banana industry
HIDDEN
- I think of hidden meaning as a words or sentence that has a more depth to it than it actually seem .
- The sentence mean, mountain is that something that does not belong to anyone one despite it beauty. There always going be that crazy person that will try to overtake it but not this mountain.
MEANING
- Same concept for the sea. No one can ever claim the sea as their own, due to never ending. The sea will always be free because it roams the earth surface and create soothing melody every.
Analyse (how language is use)
- Theme- don't be discourage of what other may say
- syntax- has a end rhyme structure
- dialect- in English words but most are spell in Jamaican
- poet devices- end rhymes, rhythm ect.
Figure of Speech dissection (knowledge and understanding) mood
- An example is End Rhyme used in the poem. End Rhyme is usually use in poem to create emotion and mood. It draws the reader in so that can the reader can also relate to the real world. "De bay is clam, an de moon is bright. De hills look black for de sky is light."
Figure of Speech dissection (knowledge and understanding) pride
- An example is when is when the banana man said "yes, by god an m'big right han I will liv an die a banana man."This quote shows how prideful B-man is because he has a repetition of saying I will live and die a happy banana man. This is a paradox because when someone said "I will live and die of ____" it sound really cheesy but in these low income country carrying banana up the hill is their bread and butter and there no shame to that.
Figure of Speech dissection (knowledge and understanding) theme
- The whole message of this story is that the banana man, explain about how he work hard for his bread and butter and some tourist man is judging him buy his appearance. "don't cas your eye nor turn your nose, don't judge a man by his patchy clothes." This simplify to, don't be discourage by other and got with what you got. (iambic pentameter)
Display text (how language is use)
- Banana man is very optimistic about his surrounding
- "I cut my stems an I'm on m'way Load up de donkey, leave de lan head down de hill to banana stan."-imagery
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CHANGES IN AMERICAN EAR
Dialect can have huge impact on American. Dialect persuade American to acquire more interesting fact about other languages. This can make American more eager for knowledge because American loves new way to interpenetrate a saying. And dialect is a perfect way due to the way of thinking optimistic like the B-man and hidden meaning like the mountain/sea.