Caribbean Literature

Caribbean Literature

Thesis Statement

The following article discusses the perfect match for Bita, a heroine of Claude McKay's Banana Bottom.

Banana Bottom by Claude McKay

This pleasantly interesting book was written by Jamaican emigrant, Claude McKay in 1933. This is an amazing story written in the beautiful Island of Jamaica. The story revealed that people were segregated in different social strata. The top or elite class was the whites, mixed skinned folks were civil servant, the brown skinned constituted the upper peasant level and the lowest stratum was the blacks, the East Indian emigrants bickering below the poverty line.

Bita Plant

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