what is the plot of Green Days By The River?

Answer 1

I read The Year several years ago but as you probably realized, Green Days on yahoo consists of two stories and hell-on-earth nut to crack on Yahoo.
Most of Anthony's early pieces revolve around childhood and growth as do many caribbean novels of the period like Lamming, Jamaica Kingston, Wilson Harris etc.

Plots:

1. The Year in San Fernando:

Twelve-year old Francis is the son of a widowed mother, very poor, who is struggling to raise her family in Mayaro, a remote Trinidadian village. The boy gets the chance to go to San Fernando to work as servant-companion to old Mrs Chandles who lives with her grand and frightening son. His mother considers it a splendid opportunity for him, but he is scared: he has never seen a town or a house with pictures on the wall, and never been away from the warmth of his family. San Fernando
might be Timbuctoo, and Mrs Chandles and her son might be ogres. But Francis has the courage and trust bred of being loved, and (without knowing it) an artist's perceptions. In the ensuing year he learns about endurance and hope, love and death. By the end of the book when ge goes back to his village, the boy is on the way to becoming a wise, strong and compassionate man.


2. The Games were coming:

The Games Were Coming Michael Anthony’s first novel unfolds during the weeks of mounting excitement which precede Trinidad’s carnival and the Southern Games. His hero, Leon, lives near Guaracara Park where the games are to be held, and is training for the great bicycle race. He is so obsessed by his ambition to be Champion that he has dismissed everything else from his life, even his girl-friend Sylvia. Lonely and hurt, Sylvia drifts towards another man, and half against her will, soon finds herself deeply involved. She is a loving and straightforward girl, but she is finally forced into a situation where she has to use the most dishonest feminine wiles to save herself.It is a simple story to contain so many things, but contain them it does: the fevers of youth, whether inspired by ambition or by love; the intoxication of carnival; the tensions of the games; the very essence of the place, the season and the occasion. Michael Anthony, who comes from San Fernando, Trinidad, and who is at present living in London, writes with a beautiful simplicity and exactness which is very rare and which brings his scene and his people to life for everyone.


3. Green Days by the River:

-The story of Shellie, a Trinidadian boy who moves with his parents to a new village and there meets two girls. He is instantly charmed by Rosalie Ghidaree, an Indian girl, and is flattered by the friendship of her father who lets Shellie help work his land down by the river, but while being tacitly accepted as a potential husband for Rosalie, he is also attracted to the and more accessible Joan. He discovers, in fact, that it is possible to be drawn to two girls at once - and gets into a serious muddle. Meanwhile his father becomes very ill. The crisis in Shellie's private life coincides with an abrupt confrontation with adult responsibilities.


I hope this helps you.
Good luck.