She went to Cuba, got pregnant, but the baby was stillborn. Trula's relationship with Yellow Mary is ambiguous. The script makes it clear that they are not related, and there are suggestions that they are lovers. That is, they imply she, and Trula, were prostitutes in Cuba. MyOwn Iona Saint Julien Lastchild Mr. Snead.
Past is present in the future.
Link between old and new. Devoted to a non-linear view of time and history. Traditional African based socio-religious belief system that must come to grips with a westernized belief system in the New World. Keeping the past alive through memory and charms and tokens from ancestors. Represents the continuation of the Peasant family, through her pregnancy.