Blog Post 4
Jacob Lebowitz
Ib Literature and Performance
10/29/18
Choose 2 different ones that help show you some interesting thinking about the book.
1. What do all the stories have in common? What theme does the writer want to come across in this writing?
I feel like all the stories had hopelessness. Al the stories in "Krik Krak," show unnamed characters who are serving and fleeing in the country of Haiti. At the time the Haitian Government and the Macoutes are taking over the country of Haiti. All these stories represent Haitian people surviving in many way. For example, in Children of the Sea the two loved writers who are in love talk about how the Macoutes are taking over the country. The male writer is trying to flee the country with a pregnant women. This pregnant women has no hope and kills herself because she was raped by one of the Macoutes. In the book it said "People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us.." People in Haiti see nothing good. The only positive thing the Haitian people have is the hope. Many of the people hope there lives will get better but they only seeing it as getting worse. I feel like the writer wanted to show hopelessness and if you have hope things will work out for you. In some chapters, these characters wanted there kids to get a better life. For example, in Night women, night womens job is being a prostitute. Night womens fear is having her child find out about her secret nigh job with other men. Night women is only in the job for the money so she can support her child and make him live a better life than what he is in right now. I feel like these two questions connected with each other, and the author clearly wanted to show the hopelessness of the people in Haiti. It even talked about people not wanting to go back to Haiti from the United States because the Government was so bad.
2. What is the significance of not naming characters in a lot of Danticats stories?
I feel like when Danticat does not name the characters, it really shows the brutal life and what it is like for the people. I feel like if she specifically named the characters it would not show the true picture for the people. It focuses on an abundance number of people rather than just one person or character. I like how it started with Children of the seas chapter with the two narrators. You could see both perspectives of the people. When the male writer was writing to his love he said this, "I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world who's names don't matter..." This shows the suffering of the people all over Haiti. It talks about the difficult stories of the people and what they have yet to come. The significance of not naming the characters shows the suffering. No person or character matters over another because they are all equal. They are all being controlled by the Government. In all, each character has the same significance of suffering. I really liked how Danticat did not name or favor one character over another and this was a new type of writing I have never read before.
Ib Literature and Performance
10/29/18
Choose 2 different ones that help show you some interesting thinking about the book.
KK Blog Post 4 due. Choose two of the discussion questions posted on the blog. Use/analyze at least 2 direct quotes in your writing. 500 words.
1. What do all the stories have in common? What theme does the writer want to come across in this writing?
I feel like all the stories had hopelessness. Al the stories in "Krik Krak," show unnamed characters who are serving and fleeing in the country of Haiti. At the time the Haitian Government and the Macoutes are taking over the country of Haiti. All these stories represent Haitian people surviving in many way. For example, in Children of the Sea the two loved writers who are in love talk about how the Macoutes are taking over the country. The male writer is trying to flee the country with a pregnant women. This pregnant women has no hope and kills herself because she was raped by one of the Macoutes. In the book it said "People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us.." People in Haiti see nothing good. The only positive thing the Haitian people have is the hope. Many of the people hope there lives will get better but they only seeing it as getting worse. I feel like the writer wanted to show hopelessness and if you have hope things will work out for you. In some chapters, these characters wanted there kids to get a better life. For example, in Night women, night womens job is being a prostitute. Night womens fear is having her child find out about her secret nigh job with other men. Night women is only in the job for the money so she can support her child and make him live a better life than what he is in right now. I feel like these two questions connected with each other, and the author clearly wanted to show the hopelessness of the people in Haiti. It even talked about people not wanting to go back to Haiti from the United States because the Government was so bad.
2. What is the significance of not naming characters in a lot of Danticats stories?
I feel like when Danticat does not name the characters, it really shows the brutal life and what it is like for the people. I feel like if she specifically named the characters it would not show the true picture for the people. It focuses on an abundance number of people rather than just one person or character. I like how it started with Children of the seas chapter with the two narrators. You could see both perspectives of the people. When the male writer was writing to his love he said this, "I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world who's names don't matter..." This shows the suffering of the people all over Haiti. It talks about the difficult stories of the people and what they have yet to come. The significance of not naming the characters shows the suffering. No person or character matters over another because they are all equal. They are all being controlled by the Government. In all, each character has the same significance of suffering. I really liked how Danticat did not name or favor one character over another and this was a new type of writing I have never read before.
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