Sugar Cane Ally

In the movie Sugar Cane Ally the main character Jose searches for a higher education and a better life for him and his grandmother. He doesn’t want to grow old in the cane fields like he has seen and heard from the elder workers like his Grandma and Mr. Medeouze. This is why Jose’s education was so important to both him and his grandmother, from the beginning it was a means to get him out of the cane fields and into a better life.

Jose’s education came from a lot of places as he grew up in a black shack ally. Due to the death of his mother he was raised by grandmother who worked all day in the sugar cane fields to provide for but never let him work in them himself because she said that once the fields had claimed him they wouldn’t let go. She did ever thing that she could to get him thing to read, even if it was just advertisements from old news papers. Mr. Medeouze also had a lot to do with his education of life outside the cane fields, about how they were forced to work in the cane fields not because they were slaves but that they were in the middle of everything the white man owned and weren’t paid a decent wage for a hard days work. Mr. Medeouze also taught Jose about the power a man has to destroy life but never recreate it and about Africa, the place his grandfather spoke of as a slave and the place he holed to return to once he was dead. Mr. Medeouze was Jose’s tie back to an African heritage due to it being generations since some peoples families had came from or even talked about Africa. This was another element that was added Jose’s education from black shack ally.

Jose’s condition was almost identical to that of people in Southern Rhodesia and there mining companies. Both were forced into labor due to the need for money to buy food. Extremely low wages and over inflated products at the companies stores forced both sets of people to work long hours of labor just in order to get by. In most cases they couldn’t make enough money and therefore were forced to stay and work until they had paid their dept off. Some of the only differences were that’s it was easier for Jose and them to leave because there weren’t pass laws like in Southern Rhodesia that forced workers to get signed off before the could leave the mining area. Also in Martinique there weren’t other places to work without an education were in Southern