![]() ![]() In Little Bee's bag there's a driver's license and business card belonging to Andrew O'Rourke, a white man she met on the beach in Nigeria.Each of the girls leaving the detention center has a clear plastic bag with her belongings inside it.She makes herself look unattractive to keep the men from bothering her at night. ![]() Because she doesn't have papers proving her age, she's been detained with adults. She was fourteen when she arrived in England, and has been in the detention center for the past two years. She is released from the detention center on a Friday morning in May, along with three other girls.She learns the Queen's English in an immigration detention center in Essex. She tells us, "To talk the Queen's English, I had to forget all the tricks of my mother tongue" (1.7).But Nigerian English is different, better, she says. English is the official language of her home country, Nigeria.Little Bee learns to talk like the Queen to survive in England. The British pound coin has a picture of Queen Elizabeth II, and it talks like her too. Unlike her, coins travel freely and safely.Everyone would be pleased to see me coming" (1.1). The first thing she tells us is, "Most days I wish I was a British pound coin instead of an African girl.The first chapter of Little Bee is narrated by a girl named Little Bee (not her real name). ![]()
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