Starter quiz
- Over the course of Scene One to Six of 'Leave Taking', what do we learn about Enid's husband?
- He sent Enid a ticket to migrate to Britain after saving for a full year. ✓
- He was jealous of Brod.
- Viv has no memory of him. ✓
- He drank excessively.
- He left the family when the girls were extremely young. ✓
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- In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', we learn about a friend of Brod's who was subject to a racist attack. What effect did this have on him?
- He left England.
- He started drinking excessively.
- His heart was broken. ✓
- He started suffering from very poor mental health. ✓
- He returned the attack.
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- In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', Brod asks Viv if she has heard of 'Nanny a the Maroons'. Who is Nanny of the Maroons?
- a relative of Enid's from Jamaica
- leader of the Jamaican Maroons ✓
- a member of the Windrush generation
- a warrior who led formerly enslaved Africans against British colonialists ✓
- an obeah woman, like Mai ✓
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- In Scene Three of 'Leave Taking', Enid expresses frustration with Brod, accusing him of spending 'half you life flat-out ______.'
- 'drunk' ✓
- In Scene Four of 'Leave Taking', Enid recalls a night with her husband when they had both decided they would migrate to England. She says, 'We sit by we self and ______ through the night.'
- 'plan' ✓
- In Scene Five of 'Leave Taking', Viv gives Del the money Enid gave her for her university education. She tells Del that Enid would want Del to have it because 'You're her ______.'
- 'favourite' ✓
Exit quiz
- In Scene Seven of 'Leave Taking', what does Brod reveal about Enid's relationship with her husband?
- He faced racist discrimination at work. ✓
- Enid left him to protect her children. ✓
- He migrated back to Jamaica.
- Her husband was abusive. ✓
- He drank excessively.
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- In Scene Seven of 'Leave Taking', what do we learn about Brod's personal life?
- He wants to marry Enid.
- He rarely sees his children. ✓
- His wife and children live in Jamaica. ✓
- He is interested in Mai.
- He never married.
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- In Scene Seven of 'Leave Taking', what does Brod say when Del asks him if he loves Enid?
- 'Not in that way.' ✓
- 'Yes.'
- 'Love has teeth.'
- 'I'm finished with women.'
- 'After everything we been through it hard to find you have any love left.' ✓
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- In Scene Seven of 'Leave Taking', Del says she doesn't want to know about her father's abuse of her mother. Brod challenges her, asking 'Why not?...Because you want to think of her as a ______?'
- 'monster' ✓
- In Scene Seven of 'Leave Taking', Brod reveals Enid's husband's behaviour: 'If they [colleagues] won't treat him like a human being outside, him make sure she [Enid] treat him like a ______'.
- 'king' ✓
- In Scene Seven of 'Leave Taking', Brod tells Del that Enid kicked him and Viv out the house, justifying her actions by saying she '______ too many people for too long.'
- 'carry' ✓
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- Brod wakes up at Mai’s house after a night of excessive drinking.
- Enid has thrown Brod and Viv out of the house.
- Brod tells Del that her father’s attitude towards her mother changed after facing daily racial discrimination at work.
- Brod tells Del that her mother left her father to protect her and Viv.
Common misconception
Brod's drinking is appropriate and meant to be funny.
Both Enid and Del challenge Brod's drinking, and his scenes expose his unhappiness, isolation and vulnerability.
Keywords
Vulnerable - If you are vulnerable, you are in a position where people can hurt you emotionally or physically.
Nanny of the maroons - 18th century leader of the Jamaican Maroons; led formerly enslaved Africans against British colonialists.
Domestic abuse - Behaviour by a person in a family unit that is threatening, controlling, violent, degrading, or manipulative.
Migrate - When you relocate from one country to another.
Discrimination - Unjust treatment of people based on certain characteristics. For example race, gender, age.
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