Lester Barnes Character Analysis in The Sun is Also a Star

Lester Barnes is a case officer at the USCIS building in Manhattan. He agrees to see Natasha when she's late for her appointment with her usual case officer. Though Mr. Barnes appears uncaring and unfeeling for Natasha's plight at first, after she yells at him about his questionable use of the Jamaican word "irie," he refers her on to a hugely successful immigration attorney named Jeremy Fitzgerald.

Lester Barnes Quotes in The Sun is Also a Star

The The Sun is Also a Star quotes below are all either spoken by Lester Barnes or refer to Lester Barnes. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:

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One day in the future, the meaning of irie will move on, and it will become just another word with a long list of archaic or obsolete definitions. "Is everything irie?" someone will ask you in a perfect American accent. "Everything's irie," you will respond […] Neither of you will know about Abraham or the Rastafari religion or the Jamaican dialect. The word will be devoid of any history at all.

Related Characters: Natasha Kingsley, Samuel Kingsley, Lester Barnes

Page Number and Citation: 26

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