Papa Ge

     My favorite character in, “My Love, My Love of the Peasant Girl,” is Papa Ge. He is dark and mysterious. Although, he is perceived as the bad guy in the book, that’s what make him more intriguing than the other characters. He is a lot different than all the other characters, who seem to have a lightness to them, but because he is death a dark aura surrounds him. This stands out to me, which is why he is my favorite.

     In the book, he is described as, “his mouth gleamed red, blood red. He grinned around a cigar clenched between his brown teeth that were dripping with blood.” This description, is extremely spooky, and almost makes me take back a step. But, at the same time I can’t stop reading about him. The idea of blood dripping down his teeth makes me curious. He is almost hard to wrap my head around him, which makes him my favorite. I can’t exactly understand him, besides the darkness he holds inside of him. He is called, “the demon of death,” which suits him very well. He is creepy and scary which gives me a jump.

      Also, the idea that he lives in the shadows make me intrigued by him. The fact that he shows up anywhere he wants at any time. It’s almost as if he really does live in the shadows. That concept makes me wonder about him, and what he wants. I think that the author did this on purpose, so that the reader might feel a pull to him, even though he is so awful.

     Another reason that he is my favorite, is because he doesn’t let the Agwe intimidate him. Pape Ge will do whatever he wants whenever he wants, no matter what the other gods say. When he wasn’t invited by Agwe to the church, Papa Ge said, “There must be room for me in all you plans.” I know this was meant dark, because Agwe has bad plans for people. However, Papa Ge still didn’t care and will show up anywhere, and is careless about what others think.  It just comes to show that Papa Ge is everywhere.

    Papa Ge shows up at the times that you least expect it or most expect. I think that’s what makes him some mysterious. You never know when he is somewhere. He just pops up uninvited or unwanted. Death is a scary thing, and I think that’s why most people don’t like Papa Ge. However, he is very intriguing. Everything about him is different, and interesting. He hold this mysterious oar which is why I like him so much .Everyone else you can figure out, but not him.  One minute you think you figure him out and the next nothing. Although we don’t know a lot about him, and he doesn’t appear much in the book, he is definitely my favorite character from the scenes he has been in and the descriptions of him so far.

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