Tetiyette and the Devil

BP3

This narrative is told in the literary form of text due to its cultural, entertaining purposes. The author gave off a message of not being shallow and look beyond some's surface. The author did this by describing the first two men that asked for her hand in marriage as animals. She specifically chose a goat and a pig because when the reader pictures these animals in their head they see them as dirt or ugly. However, a devil, wearing all beautiful clothes with gold jewelry, came to ask her to marry her and she agreed because of his good looks.

I believe that the intended audience is women, specifically those who date. The narrative has a purpose in showing how ironically, even though she knew he was a devil, she still stayed with him and ended up almost getting eaten. This goes along with the message of some people only look for looks but never look past that. The irony is established when Tetiyette's dad said, "I had already warned her to beware,"(Tetiyette and the Devil, pg. 3) when she was crying for help.

The author does a great job using a cultural form of poetry that they use in the island of Guadeloupe with the constant repetition of "Bel-Air Drum." In Guadeloupe they have a dance named Bele in which the people that were Creole would dance, so incorporating this to the more intense part of the book really set the tone and mood of that scene