Water

In the book "The Door of No Return" Dionne Brand says "All beginning in water, all ending in water. Turquoise, aquamarine, deep green, deep blue, navy, blue-black cerulean water." Throughout the history of migration, many people were taken forcibly from their homeland and taken elsewhere to become slaves. Some of this people forgot where they come from and who they are. Just like in the story of Dionne Brand, her grandfather cannot remember what people they belong to and this created a rift between them because she wanted to know desperately. People travelled by boats from their homeland to the new place. In this journey through water there past disappears. The ocean, river, lakes becomes the place for memories that are forgotten forever. One can only wonder how many tales does the oceans hold to share, how many people's identity does hold deep within. To forget where one’s homeland is a common among the slaves that where taken. Where is the land that holds the memories of our childhood? Dionne Brand tells us that there are different colors of the water; this could be that there are different stories that are held by it. The water holds the beginning of a journey and the end of one. There could be tragic, sad or maybe happy stories that are now all forgotten.

Water also signifies a never ending journey. All of us are constantly searching for our own identity. We go though many stages of our lives and we are constantly building new relationships. People are constantly travelling, they migrate to new place for many reasons and dome of them still at times forgets who they are or rather they want to forget who they are. They don’t want to be called different so they change themselves. They leave behind their culture, language and become a new person. Some people don’t even go back to their homeland. Dionne Brand tells us that a “rufous hummingbird travels five thousand miles from its summer home to its winter home. The desire to find its way depends on drops of nectar from flowers.” On what desire does a migrant finds his/her way back home?