Beka Lamb (character)
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Beka Lamb is the title character of Beka Lamb
, a novel
by Zee Edgell
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born into a middle class Belizean family. She lives with her mother, Lilla Lamb, her father, Bill Lamb, her grandmother, Miss Ivy and her brothers, Chuku and Zandy. The Lamb family was one of the few creole families on their street that had much. Beka and her best friend Toycie were the only girls on the street who were presently attending secondary school. Lilla Lamb comments "It's hard to have nice things amongst people that don't."
At the start of the novel , Beka is fourteen years old and in the second term of her second attempt at first form at St. Cecelia's Academy. She is the oldest surviving child of Bill and Lilla Lamb of Cashew Street, elder sister to Chuku and Zandy lamb, and granddaughter of Ivy Lamb, Bill's mother.
Beka
and her parents have a fairly good relationship, and they have her best interest at heart. She was occasionally beaten as a child for things coming out of her mouth, but more often than not catches her parents off guard with her sense of humor and inquisitiveness. They regard her as somewhat coquettish, but also sensitive. Her best friend is seventeen year old neighbor Toycie Qualo
who became pregnant and later loses the child from miscarriage and her own life from a mango tree falling and crushing her skull during a storm.
Beka Lamb
Beka Lamb is the debut novel from Belizean writer Zee Edgell, published in 1982 as part of the Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series. It won the Fawcett Society Book Prize in 1983 and was one of the first novels from Belize to gain international recognition. Deals with social insecurity, racial...
, a novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by Zee Edgell
Zee Edgell
Zelma I. Edgell, better known as Zee Edgell, MBE, is a writer. She has had four of her novels published. She is an associate professor of English at Kent State University.-Biography:...
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Birth and family
Beka LambBeka Lamb
Beka Lamb is the debut novel from Belizean writer Zee Edgell, published in 1982 as part of the Heinemann Caribbean Writers Series. It won the Fawcett Society Book Prize in 1983 and was one of the first novels from Belize to gain international recognition. Deals with social insecurity, racial...
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IS
-Language and words:Words formed from the letters "is" include:*"is", the third form of the verb "to be" at present tense, in the English language. For copulative usage see Copula...
born into a middle class Belizean family. She lives with her mother, Lilla Lamb, her father, Bill Lamb, her grandmother, Miss Ivy and her brothers, Chuku and Zandy. The Lamb family was one of the few creole families on their street that had much. Beka and her best friend Toycie were the only girls on the street who were presently attending secondary school. Lilla Lamb comments "It's hard to have nice things amongst people that don't."
At the start of the novel , Beka is fourteen years old and in the second term of her second attempt at first form at St. Cecelia's Academy. She is the oldest surviving child of Bill and Lilla Lamb of Cashew Street, elder sister to Chuku and Zandy lamb, and granddaughter of Ivy Lamb, Bill's mother.
Beka
Beka
* Beka is the Oromo name for a boy, meaning "He knows or the one who knows or God Knows " It is African name for oromo/ Ethiopian /East African name...
and her parents have a fairly good relationship, and they have her best interest at heart. She was occasionally beaten as a child for things coming out of her mouth, but more often than not catches her parents off guard with her sense of humor and inquisitiveness. They regard her as somewhat coquettish, but also sensitive. Her best friend is seventeen year old neighbor Toycie Qualo
Toycie Qualo
Toycie Qualo is a secondary character in the novel Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell. She is the best friend of main character Beka Lamb and girlfriend of Emilio Villanueva.- Education :...
who became pregnant and later loses the child from miscarriage and her own life from a mango tree falling and crushing her skull during a storm.