In the Notebook of a Return to Native Land, I had difficulty grasping the understanding of the text several times that I have to re-read the page over and over to fully understand what the text meant. In the text “they would sell us on the town square and an ell of English cloth and salted meat from Ireland cost less than we did, and this land was calm, tranquil, repeating that the spirit of the lord was in its acts”, I started to understand the meaning after reading it over a couple times.

I did not what understand what they meant in the last couple of sentence meant so I searched for the definitions. In this land with “promising tender cane and silky cotton”, seemed like a good place until it says “brand us with red-hot irons”. As I read to the last sentence, I didn’t understand what the repeating of the spirit of the lord because if it was repeating, then shouldn’t the “lord” be something or someone thats doing good, instead of bad? The fact that it was repeating over again I didn’t understand what this spirit is. Throughout this book, I had to search up definitions on what I didn’t understand and put the words together.