Moko Jumbie

    This film is like the traditional story/movie we've been reading about all year where a couple cannot be together due to their socioeconomic status. Asha in the film seems like she can do whatever she wants and is kind of careless with what she does. As this theme come up so often in the works we analysis I feel like it is important for us to make sure we do not let our class structure keep two people apart. I feel that so many of the pieces that we have looked at have had this theme as this was a very common issue in these times in the Caribbean. Just because Roger was an African American doesn't mean Asha shouldn't be allowed to be with him. So prior to watching this film I did not know what a Moko Jumbie was, which I learned is something very important to Caribbean culture. It's funny to see in these pieces where there are two people who cannot be together how they are completely fine being together but the only thing that is stopping them is typically the cultural norms implemented by their parents. This is funny because most parents typically want what's best for their children and stopping the kids from doing what they think is best for them parents are hurting them more than anything. By the parents doing this they're forcing their children into cookie-cutter mold which they will never be able to break in there for the gap between the two social classes will never be broken.