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      • Narrated by Antoinette, Part One of Wide Sargasso Sea focuses on her childhood at Coulibri after the death of her father, Alexander Cosway. Antoinette's vague and fragmentary memories focus on glimpses of tropical landscape, descriptions of her mother, and examples of her childhood isolation.
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  2. Summary. Analysis. The novel opens with Antoinette ’s narration, looking back at her childhood in 1830’s post-Emancipation Jamaica. Antoinette and her family are isolated, socially and geographically.

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  3. Narrated by Antoinette, Part One of Wide Sargasso Sea focuses on her childhood at Coulibri after the death of her father, Alexander Cosway. Antoinette's vague and fragmentary memories focus on glimpses of tropical landscape, descriptions of her mother, and examples of her childhood isolation.

  4. Summary. The first part of Wide Sargasso Sea is told from the perspective of Antoinette Cosway, a young girl who lives on an estate on the island of Jamaica (a British colony) with her mother and brother and a dwindling group of the family's former slaves.

  5. May 29, 2019 · Wide Sargasso Sea consists of two parts. Part 1 is narrated by the girl growing up in Jamaica who is destined to become Rochester’s wife.

  6. Summary. As Wide Sargasso Sea opens, Antoinette, the protagonist and narrator, explains why her mother ( Annette) and the family are not accepted by their community in Jamaica. Annette is young, pretty, and from the French colony of Martinique, while Jamaica is an English colony.

  7. Part One Summary. Antoinette Cosway, the narrator of this section, is living at Coulibri Estate in 1830s Jamaica up the road from Spanish Town, the capital at the time. She lives with her mother, Annette, her younger brother Pierre, and her nurse, Christophine.

  8. While Wide Sargasso Sea is most explicitly about the interpersonal tension between Antoinette and Mr. Rochester, its primary concern is about Antoinette’s pursuit of freedom and belonging in the face of an unwavering colonial power.

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