Children Of The Sea Danticat

On November 28th, twenty-nine students were sat in the same room to read Krik? Krak! not knowing what they would be exposed to. Edwidge Danticat, the author, wrote the collection of the stories in order to spread awareness of Haitians and their stories. Danticat uses the hope Haitians feel to conceptualize the freedom and power it allows a Haitian to distract them from the desolation of Haiti.

The first story read in Krik? Krak! was the most impactful, and rightly so it had to be like that, it was the first story. It made a statement when the author chose to write in two different viewpoints and perspectives. The story “Children of the Sea” was one of having to feel hopeless in order to feel the power and freedom in this case, to feel death. In the story the two lovers talk back and forth through journal entry without ever talking to each other. One entry that displays hope was, “... people are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything”(16). To which the boy’s entry “replies,” Maybe this was my invitation to go. In any case, I know that my memory of you will live even there as I too become a child of the sea”( 24). He shows the hopelessness he felt right up until the

The story “Night Women” is about a mother who has turned to prostitution after her son's father presumably left or died. To make herself better she puts a curtain between her and her son, she says. “Most nights I hear a slight whisper. My body freezes as I wonder how long it would take for him to cross the curtain and find me” (72). The mother feels like the curtain gives power to the sense that it is a beacon of hope for the boy the live a free life unlike his mother’s. She hopes that the boy is able to keep his innocence with the curtain separating them, giving a sort of daring