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Bay Leaves And Cinnamon Stick Life Is Summary

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Bay Leaves and Cinnamon Sticks: Life is Some stories have a very good way of persuading a person to see life in a different way. Thelma B. Thompson gave a wonderful meaning in her book “Bay Leaves and Cinnamon Sticks: Life Is”. The theme for this novel would have to be morality. Millie tried to figure out what the right thing to do throughout the whole novel. She sees the wrong and does not proceed with the wrong full things. As she states when Jude told her he was in that selling drugs business “go turn yourself in”. Millie knows what is right and what is wrong. The author did a good job with how she produced this novel. In this novel there is a main character, her name is Millie. She was born in Jamaica. Millie received her visa and moved to New York to find better opportunities. She has four children. The girls live with her sister Imogene. The two boys live with their father’s relatives. She went to visit Jamaica, she landed at the airport and waited for her husband to show and he never did. She met this man named William Hope. He was a cab driver and he took her home. Later that night, she found out that her husband, Jude was seeing another woman. She came across this letter from Canada from the woman who Jude had been seeing. Millie was devastated. She was sending him money to build her house and there was no sign of the new house. The following day she went to find Omega, he is a person who helps various people in Jamaica. Omega gave her the advice she needed to

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