Réponse :
Bonjour,
1/
In the scene there are several characters. The narrator ( he was 6 at the beginning and 13 at the end ). Miss Randolph his teacher. And Celestine Dowling an old librarian.
2/
The scene takes place in the United States, more precisely in the South. « a lot of colored people tell me that they hate the South »
3/
We learn in this scene that the narrator comes from a poor black family. He lives with his family in the South only with black people. Black people had to work hard. They went to church on Sundays and that was great for them. He was very good at school and he was found of reading.
4/
a. The text refers to segregation.
« Jim Crow and segregation made heavy weigh » .
« There was a library in the white part of the town » .
b. The main problem the narrator’s community had to face was the Jim Crow Laws ( Laws that enforced racial segregation. Black people didn’t have the same rights )
« lynchings were a terrible thing » .
« These books were written by white people to white people » .
5/
The narrator felt angry and sad about this period, On the one hand he was happy in his family, he « loved the little shack (he) shared with (his) mother » . But on the other hang his experience at the library was awful, he « remember(ed) (his) heart catching, (He) forgot how to breath » . He was extremely hurt, the librarian attitude and her words « brought tears into (his) eyes.
