Caroline's Wedding Analysis

There are such few Americans who know about Haiti, and the tragedies that the country had gone though. In Edwidge Dandicat’s Krik? Krak! This was originally published in 1991, shows her audience the audacities that happened during the Duvalier’s dictatorship. Danticat lets her audience see that even though the Haitian’s are going through these massive troubles they are also going through emotional troubles, such as heart break. These forms of troubles may not seem as difficult as the many; many other hardships the characters have gone through. Although, through “Children of the Sea” and “Caroline’s Wedding” Danticat shows two different stories, though very different, can be similar. Both Caroline and the unnamed woman were told that the men

that they wanted to be with where unsuitable for them. They defy their parents and continue to be with their loves. By resisting their parents pleads, they continue to be with their love for the sake of the one thing that keeps them happy.
“Children of the Sea” was a chapter about two unnamed lovers. They are writing letters to each other, but the letters will never be sent. The unnamed man is on a boat, filled with 35 (check number when looking back at book) other people on his way to America, fleeing his life in Haiti. The unnamed woman is writing letters to her love, in hopes that he makes it to America In “Caroline’s Wedding” Caroline was born without a left forearm due to the drugs her mother was given in order to calm her down. Caroline invites her mother to her wedding, which is in America. Her mother is not happy that her daughter is marrying a man who is not Haitian because it is against Haitian belief to marry someone of a different culture. Caroline and her fiancé have a civil marriage, though after the ceremony; her mother still believes that she should have married someone who was Haitian.