The little boy is named Jose. He lives with his grandmother, a vast, hardworking, God-fearing woman with a great fund of love. He is a smart kid—gifted, likable. He makes friends with a very old man, a man so old that he remembers the days of slavery, and tells Jose that the work in the fields is just a new form of slavery. He dreams of going back to Africa someday, and Jose says he’ll join him.
