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Crumbs from the Table of Joy PROLOGUE - Coggle Diagram
Crumbs from the Table of Joy
PROLOGUE
Death of mother
Family was weighed down by their grief
Changed how Godfrey moved through the world
Quiet and reserved
One day he simply stopped sobbing with grief, packed the family up, and moved from Florida to
Brooklyn
.
ERNESTINE CRUMP
17 years old Slightly plump
ERMINA CRUMP
15 years old Attractive, slim
GODFREY CRUMP
35 years old Lean, handsome
Incapable of doing anything after mother's death
BROOKLYN
Godfrey
Job in a Bakery
He’d leave every night after dinner and came back in the early morning, noding on his way in and out to
Father Devine
Ernestine and Ermina
Go to school
Made fun of them for their education and rural dresses
Ermina fought the girls
Cinema
Their refuge
Watch dramatic films while sitting right next to white people
Threat of
COMMUNISM
HOWEVER Godfrey main concern is Father Devine
Writing to him and waiting for his response
"Discovered Father Divine when he was
searching to cure “the ailments of the heart”"
Father Devine ended up blessing Godfrey via mail, suddenly “cured” Godfrey’s grief and made it possible for him to move on
"He vowed to move nearer to Divine" and was so grateful that he decided to move to Brooklyn (thought Divine’s Peace Mission was there)
FATHER DEVINE
Leader of the Peace Mission Movement
Sunday, Ernestine and Ermina want to listen to the radio, but Godfrey won't let them
Father Devine wouldn't approve
Girls want to go upstairs to visit their neighbors who give them money for turning on electronics
Godfrey doesn't want his daughters spending so much time with white people
For Ernestine Godfrey is being false
Father Divine himself married a “spotless white virgin.”
Godfrey doesn’t want anything to do with white people, he doesn’t want to end up like the Scottsboro Boys
"Seems to us only white folks can laugh on Sunday".