I have just recently read your novel, The Kingdom of This World. It was a very interesting story and i also had the privileged of looking into the story further with our group project. I have really enjoyed your story and there is a few minor things that i wanted to ask you about it. In the story there is a part where Ti Noel comes back to Cap and is wondering around the old plantation. Then he is soon captured by his own people and is treated as an outsider. Why in the story is there always a oppression issue towards Ti Noel? I feel like he is constantly being the victim of every situation. Especially at the end of the story when he tries to join the geese and ends up transforming into a vulture. The geese do not let him join them because he is not one of them and is not equal to them. It seems like the good people in this story are constantly being treated bad by others. Another thing that i want to ask you is voodoo really that powerful of a religion? In the story it seems voodoo gives the slaves a whole new since of power. They feel like they are unstoppable and are extremely motivated to rebel against the plantation owners. I really didn't know that voodoo worked in such ways and it made the story a lot more interesting to follow. What I mean by that is wondering what transformation or sacrifice was going to occur next.
Sincerely,
Michael Polascik
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