Beka Lamb (character)

Beka Lamb is the title character of Beka Lamb, a novel by Zee Edgell.

Birth and family

Beka Lamb is born into a middle class Belizean family. She lives with her mother, Lilla Lamb, her father, Bill Lamb, her grandmother, Miss Ivy and her brothers, Chuku and Zandy beka has two other sbling who died, beka says she only remember her brother who died when he was four but she does not remember her sister which also died when she was still very small. The Lamb family was one of the few creole families on their street that had much. Beka and her best friend Toycie were the only girls on the street who were presently attending secondary school. Lilla Lamb comments "It's hard to have nice things amongst people that don't."

At the start of the novel, Beka is fourteen years old and in the second term of her second attempt at first form at St. Cecelia's Academy. She is the oldest surviving child of Bill and Lilla Lamb of Cashew Street, elder sister to Chuku and Zandy lamb, and granddaughter of Ivy Lamb, Bill's mother. Beka and her parents have a fairly good relationship, and they have her best interest at heart. She was occasionally beaten as a child for things coming out of her mouth, but more often than not catches her parents off guard with her sense of humor and inquisitiveness. They regard her as somewhat coquettish, but also sensitive. Her best friend is seventeen-year-old neighbor Toycie Qualo who became pregnant from her boyfriend Emilio Villanueva but is rejected by him when he finds out about her pregnancy because he needed to finish school then later, Toycie loses the child from miscarriage and her own life from a mango tree falling and crushing her skull during a storm.