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    3 WAYS IN WHICH A CHARACTER IN 'LETTY'S POOL' IS AN AGENT  OF CHANGE 1.  In Letty's Pool, Mark MacAndrews is an obvious agent of change.   Firstly, change is initiated when (together with his sister Angeline) he breaches the entrance to the hidden village that is site of Busha Wilde's plantation, hidden in the bush at the edge of the Cockpit Country, home of the infamous Maroons.  Secondly, he stops to rest on the bridge across the nearby river, and saves the beautiful Maroon exile, Jasmine, from the attack of the wild pig.   Thirdly, he assists his companion/sister in introducing an advanced medical technique when he applies the treatment to her.  Finally, by his eventual marriage to Jasmine, Mark becomes an agent of change in two hugely significant ways: first, he is able to start an alternative dynasty of his own; secondly, he is able to heal some of the hostility between the maroons and the settlers of the society.   

  WHY DO I WRITE? I write to share the results of my own creative journey with others who might have similar interests, or at least similar questions to those which I asked or were asked of me then and now: 'Who am I? Who are we? Why are we here?' I was a year out of sixth form and a first job as an aspiring writer/editor, when I began my studies at the University of the West Indies' Mona campus. It was the decade of the seventies, intended to pursue an honors degree in English. However, social sciences and foreign languages ​​offered so many additional possibilities for providing answers to those burning questions of the reasons for life and living, that I graduated with an honors degree in Spanish and English instead, and followed up with a Master's in Literatures in English , and a diploma in Language Arts Education. DEE AND THE RIVER MUMMA AND OTHER TALES  One evening when the land is bathed in moonlight, Dee, who lives with her grandparents in Mango Valley, goes ou