A Study Guide for Joanne Hyppolite's "Seth and Samona"
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Seth and Samona
Joanne Hyppolite
1995
Introduction
At the center of Joanne Hyppolite’s novel for young adults, Seth and Samona, is the idea of having faith in human beings, of accepting differences and hoping for the best from others. The novel is narrated by Seth Michelin, an eleven-year-old boy whose family has immigrated from Haiti to Boston, Massachusetts. Seth’s parents, grandmother, and numerous aunts and uncles still follow many of the cultural practices that they followed in the old country, while Seth and his brother and sister are faced with blending their cultural tradition into the world where they live now. Samona Gemini is Seth’s classmate and his closest friend, even though he goes out of his way to pretend that he is embarrassed by her. Like Seth, Samona does not exactly fit into the social atmosphere of their fifth grade class. While Seth is quiet and withdrawn, Samona is loud and outgoing, given to lying, bragging, and drawing attention to herself. Seth repeatedly calls Samona crazy
and he pretends to pity her because she will never have friends until she acts normal.
Still, it is obvious from the way he acts toward her that, despite what he says, he admires her for the freedom that he lacks. Seth and Samona was the winner of the second annual Marguarite de Angeli Prize, and has won critical and popular acclaim for Hyppolite.
Author Biography
Seth and Samona is Joanne Hyppolite’s first book, published when she was twenty-six years old. Hyppolite was born in Les Cayes, Haiti, in 1969, but her life in that country was brief: like Seth in the novel, her family moved to the United States when she was young, just four years old. She grew up in Dorchester, a predominantly Haitian area of Boston, which is where the novel takes place. After earning a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from the University of Pennsylvania, she went on to study at the University of California at Los Angeles, where she earned her master’s degree from the Department of Afro-American Studies. Seth and Samona, which was published in 1995, was awarded the Second Annual Marguerite de Angeli Prize from Delacorte Press, which published the book. Hyppolite’s second novel, Ola Shakes It Up, is about a nine-year-old girl who moves from the city to a placid suburban community and tries to make it as lively