1. They owned one of the only Delco generators in the district which allowed them to listen to a sermon in Kingston or music from Cuba.
2. She (Bob's mother) attended the Stepney school where she got beaten over every little thing, which caused her to transfer.
3. Captain Marley was the first man she had ever been with.
4. She had slept over his house without permission and got a good beating when she got home the next morning.
5. She began to spend so much time at him house that her father said that she belonged to Captain Marley at the young age of sixteen.
6. Although only sixteen, she was now the woman of Captain Norval St Clair Marley.

Was she going to die?

How good were the doctors in their town?

Wait! Whose mother died? Bob's or Bob's mothers mother?

"Inside the room, my mother was complaining that her head hurt and that she felt sick, as if someone had 'marked a ten-cross over her forehead', which is a magical cross that can draw evil." - Simile

I agree with her when she says that because schools are less strict students seem less likely to learn because they are not disciplined and do not care.