Family responsibility, fear, trauma
Harriet
Sweden, progressive, cheerful and composed, idealization of Europe vs US, teorija drzave blagostanja u Francuskoj i Svedskoj, Golizam, dominirane klase dobijaju autonomiju i podrsku, suprotno od onoga sto se desava u US, uprkos blagostanju rasne razlike i , escapism, physical removal, great racial salad
US u to vreme New Deal ali black america and Harlem , Fair deal i great society projekat, war on povert, new frontiers
keeps him calm, plotting to get to America, cute dynamics, learning how to protect them
alone for the first time, at peace and no whitemans world
showed him the world was bigger than the one they wanted him to live in
Dad
no name, could me any man
hinted at his first return to America
fears of what Paul will think of the blacker uncle Norman
surprised that the girls get along, explains that white people need to protect their image - truthful image, he is not really truthful erasing his past
the final council of war, leaving France as a battle
American fathers never kiss their sons, his experience generalized
understands that he is refusing to be identified with the misery of his people, but with those responsible
Paul
does not know slang, is French, has an accent, is mixed
we will just go back, the descriptions, seems to glow, the skin, Metis the word
Dad expects that Louisa confuses the boy, exotic details, probably not a conclusion that a child would make
he assumes the kid wonders why she does not speak French
she protects American culture
was not able to talk to another white person like Harriet - the same way he could not be with her
they share secrets that Harriet cant understand, he was never honest