As I read, I noticed that most of the characters involved in Crossing the Mangrove have strong opinions stemming from the perspective of race and class. They live their lives with harsh lenses of judgment classifying their Guadalupian neighbors based on race, achievement, cultural heritage and gender. Francis Sancher came to live on the island of Guadeloupe and people became suspicious of this “foreigner”. I found it interesting that most of the women in the novel felt positively towards Francis Sancher, while the men felt strong disgust towards him. Although, interestingly enough, every character seemed to be strongly attracted to this strange man. “Women secretly had a thing for this domineering man, so tall and straight under his silver hair. But the men could not digest him and called him all sorts of names." At the beginning of the story no one knew where he actually got off but many liked to guess. Cuba was the main voice: “As soon as we learned that he was Cuban, dad declared that there were too many foreigners in Guadeloupe and that he had to be deported with a...