1. How is the law enforced in rural Jamaica?

2. What are district constables?

What are their jobs?

3. What are the crops identified in the story? Where on Jamaica are they grown? Which are the most valuable to Jamaicans?

4. What would day-to-day life be like today for a Jamaican girl like Nenna who lives on a farm?

5. The narrator tells us that the story is from her father's youth. What would life in Jamaica have been like over a generation ago, and how has it changed since then? Do farming communities still function the way they are depicted by Berry?

6. The story of Big-Walk introduces a large issue: What does society do with people who do not fit into normal social roles such as police officer or shop owner? What should be done about Big-Walk? Should anything be "done" about him?

7. Where...