Alma definition
Examples of Alma in a sentence
When Dodo walks across Alma, he remembers how he used to walk through the sugar cane fields to his family estate: ‘I walk past the stream and the bamboo hedge, I climb up the little stone wall and here is the entrance to the terrestrial paradise, the big Fe’sen’s house’ [je passe le ruisseau et la haie de bambous, j’escalade le petit mur de pierre et là c’est l’entrée du paradis sur terre, la grande maison Fe’sen] (A, 67).
In Alma, Creole is employed more frequently, especially when Dodo is the narrator.
In Alma, Le Clézio exposes the fraught relationship Franco-Mauritians maintain with the island and its wider society, and turns to the character of a young Indo- Mauritian woman, Aditi, to portray an alternative relationship with the natural insular environment.
Thus, even one of the last Franco-Mauritian patriarchs in Alma is defined by the closeness he entertains with the very people and culture he is meant to avoid and despise.
Written almost thirty years after Le Bal du dodo, Alma seems to catch Franco-Mauritians at a later stage of the society’s transformation, when their houses and their wealth have been wiped out.
The fragmentation of the island into hyper-insularised pockets of population is shown in its most intimate aspect in Alma, where the Felsen family divides its own familial domain.
Local funds from Park County, Alma and Breckenridge will be used to provide the required local match for any 5311 grants.
Park County, Alma and Breckenridge agree to provide local share contributions in the following amounts to Summit County to offset all eligible expenses incurred in the Park County portion of the service: Town of Breckenridge $50,000; Park County $45,000; Town of ▇▇▇▇ $5,000.
Subject to annual appropriation, Park County, Breckenridge and Alma shall contribute to operations.
As Alma exemplifies, the relationships between the white communities and non-white communities in the three novels examined here are hidden, discredited, or denied, but they are nevertheless present and noticeable in the population’s languages, traditions, and appearances.