In “Hope,” Mr. Lucas is Millie Lucas’s father. He lives with his family in a rural village and supports them with his banana crops. He plants extra crops in order to raise enough money to send Millie to Kingston, but they die during the wet season when a fungus infects them, symbolizing how the family’s poverty makes Millie’s future shaky and uncertain. Still, Mr. Lucas believes in Millie and wants better for her, so he manages to scrounge up enough resources to get her to Kingston, where she apprentices for an elderly seamstress, Willemina.
Mr. Lucas Quotes in Foreign Soil
The Foreign Soil quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Lucas or refer to Mr. Lucas. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Hope
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Mr. Lucas, crooning to his daughter’s future-crop with a deep, velvety calypso as he tended the plot after the rains, noticed the disease when, starting at the outer edges, the jade-green leaves started to yellow. Within two weeks the tiny Panama freckles expanded to dark pockmarks, and the man knew his daughter’s dreams were in trouble.
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Mr. Lucas Quotes in Foreign Soil
The Foreign Soil quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Lucas or refer to Mr. Lucas. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Hope
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Mr. Lucas, crooning to his daughter’s future-crop with a deep, velvety calypso as he tended the plot after the rains, noticed the disease when, starting at the outer edges, the jade-green leaves started to yellow. Within two weeks the tiny Panama freckles expanded to dark pockmarks, and the man knew his daughter’s dreams were in trouble.
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