Carolines Wedding Reading Notes

- In this story, it is about two sisters and their mother who live in New York.

- Caroline is getting married to a man who is from the Bahamas.

- this causes cobflict within the family because her mother is a very traditional Haitian and she thinks that her daughter should marry a Haitian man. 

- the mother is very traditional and she always makes bone soup for her daughters.

- she is really not happy with this wedding.

- when she want to Carolines fiances house, she barely ate any food because she does not like him.

- their father dies 10 years before this. 

- their mother was left in Haiti from her husband untill he could make enough money for them.

- in order to get to the US he had to marry somebody else to get their.

- this weighs on the mother a lot because he married somebody else. 

- their relationship did not feel the same after that.

- she is mad that the man did not adk for permission to marry her daughter.

- she talks a lot about how her husband asked her to marry her.

- her husbands whole family asked her family if their son could marry her.

- she cares a lot about this which is a big reason why she dies not like him.

- Caroline is angry at her mother because she does not like the idea of her marrying him.

- They start to prepare for the wedding.
- there is a small party before the wedding happens.
- Carolines sister has dreams about her father.
- she continues to dream about hin but she can never reach him or talk to him.
- it frustrates her because she wants to talk to him but he will not let her.
- Caroline gets married to her fiance.
- her mother goes along with it and they part ways.