A hurricane hits Jamaica, destroying the Bas-Thornton plantation. A High Wind in Jamaica begins sometime after the British Empire abolished slavery in 1834. The novel has been adapted into several films and radio and stage adaptations. The children do anything they can to survive, actively reject their innocence, and even commit murder and occasionally turn on each other. The novel departs from traditional, one-dimensional models of the courageous and innocent child protagonist, for whom the audience is meant to become sympathetic.
Their parents send them home to England on a ship that is then commandeered by pirates. First titled The Innocent Voyage, it concerns a young girl named Emily Bas-Thornton and her four siblings, John, Edward, Laura, and Rachel, whose lives on a Jamaican plantation are interrupted when a hurricane decimates their home. A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1929 novel by Welsh author Richard Hughes.
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