In “Hope,” Mrs. Lucas is Millie’s mother. She raises Millie and Millie’s siblings. After Millie gives birth to her son, Eddison William, Millie’s father offers to take the baby back to Cidar Valley and have Mrs. Lucas raise it, but Willemina contends that if Millie is old enough to become pregnant, she should be old enough to raise the resultant baby.
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Mrs. Lucas Character Timeline in Foreign Soil
The timeline below shows where the character Mrs. Lucas appears in Foreign Soil. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Hope
...it out: he will send her to Kingston. He proposes this to his wife ( Mrs. Lucas ) as they lie in bed one night, but she pretends to be asleep. Mr....
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...home, Millie’s family makes a giant bonfire out of the ruined banana crops; Millie and Mrs. Lucas sell sticks of skewered marshmallows and meat to the other villagers.
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Millie has seen Mrs. Lucas pregnant and knows exactly what’s going on when her breasts begin to swell and she...
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...Mr. Lucas finds out about the baby and offers to bring it back and have Mrs. Lucas raise it as their own, but Willemina tells him that if Millie is old enough...
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