The Art of Scamming

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Essay on ‘Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom’: How does the writer portray the reactions and responses towards the revelation of light? The poem ‘Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom’, written by Marcia Douglas, a uses a variety of techniques to portray the response to the revelation of electricity. This poem is set in a village sort of area, which makes us realise the importance of how the people see electricity, and this event is also happening towards the evening just after sunset. The poem title ‘Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom’ sounds very much like a village name, probably somewhere in Jamaica as they are known to grow cocoa. The poem also tells us that they are “...watching the sun turn yellow, orange”. This makes us assume that this is happening in the evening, as the sky is always an orange colour at sunset. The line before also quotes, “...camped on the grass bank outside”, which shows the people’s patience as they are waiting and expecting the arrival of electricity, and see it as a very fascinating event in their lives because the line suggests that they have been camped outside for a long time. The writer uses a variety of characters to show their response to the electricity coming to Cocoa Bottom. Firstly, she uses long sentences to show how eager the children are to see the light. This is proved in the quote: “They camped on the grass bank outside his house... watching the sky turn yellow, orange”. The word ‘watching’ shows how desperate and excited they are to see the light as they waited watching the sunset which must have felt like a long time. We can also presume that Grannie Patterson is shy and excited when the writer says: “...peeped through the crack”. The word ‘peeped’ emphasises that she is shy but she still wants to see the light. Finally, the writer portrays Mr Samuel as a God-like image which we can imagine when she says: “...a

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