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WHy would Dandicat organize these stories in this specific way, What meaning does it have? I think Danticat organized the stories this way because she wanted to focus on making the story believable and she wanted the audience to connect to all of her stories. I think this is why she choose to put a wall of fire rising before night women. She did this to make a connection between both stories. In a wall of fire rising guy was the main consumer for the family and he told lili "your really good with that boy. You will make a performer out of him." This shows that what he wants is his son to be successful and also he wants lili to make him into the man that he knows he could be. which will take education and practice. from going from that to night women which is about a woman who is a prostettue and this is her job what she does for money. she also is a single woman with a son reading this story right after reading a wall of rising makes you think that the reason this woman i...

dicussion questions what do all the stories have in common what theme does the writer want to come across in the writing what was the author trying to reveal in the epilogue how does the writer give insight on the Haitian culture and people, use an example

-Grace is the main support for the family and they are used to her and depend on her both her mother and her sister Caroline - the traditional Haitian values are what her mother believes in while Caroline’s American independence is what she is focused on. - Grace wants to take care of her family and make them proud. - She sees the best in people and trusts them to make their own decisions, so she’s supportive of both Caroline’s engagement and her mother anting to stay true to her Haitian roots. - she feels like she is not 100 percent completely Haitian or completely American. she's having an identity crisis  - She still feels a strong connection to Haiti, but she feels guilty for being the reason her parents had to leave.  -she isn't happy with her culture -she doesn't take part in the superstition (making bone soup) -grace is jealous of Caroline because Caroline is making a new place for herself and having her own family and living the American dream and grace is s...

leaving home /escape "it was very hard for ma to watch Caroline prepare to leave us, knowing that there was nothing she could do but feed her." pg.160 the quote is saying that it is hard for the mother to let go of the child but she must let go in order for her to start her own life and be happy. The only thing she can do is continue with the traditions and pass along the family culture and rituals as much as possible. thesis: even when a mothers love is so strong and they want to hold back the child they must give them the opportunity to escape the life that they are living and move onto their own life and do their own thing even if it is hard.

night women and new york day women are similar because of the parent child relationship and the fact that in both stories the occupation of the parent is hidden, because of some type of shame that the parent might have about what she does and doesn't tell the child. in the US the women have more opportunities to make money unlike in Haiti they had little to no opportunities to work unless it was being a maid or peace worker, which were both very hard to get. In America There seems to not be that much violance where in haiti it seemed to be the focus of the country. the haitian people have a culture of being very perticular that is different from the way that americans live, like for example suzettes mother wanting to  put lace colors on her softball uniform. i think her mother is very much still stuck in this haitian lifestyle in america. in both stories it seems that families generate the most wealth from the man. but woman do work. this shows that woman will be forced to work and...

- the narrator is from brooklyn new york and her mother -she works in new york and while she is walking on her lunch break she sees her in the street and chooses to follow her -she said she never seen her mother shopping outside of brooklyn before - firs she was peering into chanel and tiffany's - she said when she seen her that morning she was in her bathrob and had curlers in her hair mad out of newspaper -it goes back and forth between quotes from her mother and herself explaining the day - there was a quote from her mother talking out how she bets she doesn't give up her seat for an old woman on the subway or a pregnant women. - the narrator said her mother is usually right she usually doesn't and that sometimes she does the same saying also ends the chapter -she talks about the new york city road rage and how a taxi driver said "'what do you think this is a dance floor'" - and her mother quote comes in about how in haiti they yell or have roa...

WE ARE LISTENING I. As our metal eyes wake to absolute night, where whispers fly from the beginning of time, we cup our ears to the heavens. We are listening on the volcanic lips of Flagstaff and in the fields beyond Boston in a great array that blooms maybe talking about stars  like coral from the desert floor, compares opposites like the night sky and stars  on highwire webs patrolled by computer spiders in Puerto Rico. We are listening for a sound beyond us, beyond sound, searching for a lighthouse in the breakwaters of our uncertainty, searching for something  unseen or unknown an electronic murmur a bright, fragile I am. Small as tree frogs staking out one end of an endless swamp, we are listening through the longest night we imagine, which dawns between the life and time of stars. the explosion of stars maybe  II. Our voice trembles with its own electric, (maybe she is saying that our voices all sound different and have a unique sou...

-starts off describing the little girl that the narrator had seen on the side of the curb in a pink blanket -she was brown skinned and bonny, and looked like an angle from heaven or a bible character. so in other words precise -she was wearing a blue dress that spelled out rose - she wonders if she is a charm sent to trap her. she says her enemies were the women that slept with her husband when she was going through her miscarriages - she had had many miscarriages because her body couldn't hold the baby - she had names that she would have named her baby girl, and those were characters in the other stories like Eveline, Josephine, Jacqueline, Celianne -she goes over and picks up the little girl and says rose my child and brings her in, or adopts her - the narrator says she smelt like gardenias and fish - the narrator goes on to talk about her family history to rose and tell her great grandmother, her grandmother, and her godmother -she tells rose about her husband that had ...

Notes: Ivan and Jacob: Ivan is a night woman uses fake curtain. Jacob has a monologue was of him talking to himself. I thought Lesley is the pregnant person on the boat (Celine) jasmine is the woman in night women she says not to be like her and to Never lie to her child when it is born they both explain what they are and what they do guy and the night woman have a disagreement on what they believe and guy believed that children should get a job, and the night woman believe the kid should go to school. Reflection: Ivan and Jacob went first and they are both night women. Ivan started off with acting out tucking his child away to sleep before he went to prostitute and then there was a nock on the door and it was Jacob who explained why he is a night woman and he seems ashamed and he explains the reasoning for being a night woman. Jacobs monologue was very serious and it gave off a harsh emotion towards the life that he was portraying and the dignity that he is trying to ...

do you agree with the lifestyle that this night woman is living? in class writing in the story night women and in the first story children of the sea. the similar theme in the stories  was... the disclosure. in children of the sea the female narrator was afraid of her father finding out about her male lover and the fact that she still had the tapes of his radio shows . this informtion was disclosed,  when her father found the tapes, and yelled at her, spat in her face, pushed her against the wall, and repetedly slapped her in the face. this is a action reaction part of the story. this relates to the story night women because the woman in night women is holding the information of what her true occupation is from her son because she knows the reaction he would give she wouldn't like. Also I know that she would probably keep this information from her son for as long as possible , just to not get him mad, or disappointed in her. this theme of disclosure is so heavy because bot...

The character from kris krak that I chose is: the mother from night women 1.  WHO AM I? (All the details about your character including name, age, address, relatives, likes, dislikes, hobbies, career, description of physical traits, opinions, beliefs, religion, education, origins, enemies, loved ones, sociological influences, etc.)   I am a single mother in Haiti who has a son, who is about 9 years old. I am a prostitute at night and I am a mother during the day. when my son goes to sleep that is when I work. I have the choice between being a day woman and a night woman but I choose the night to provide for my son in the most plentiful way. 2.  WHAT TIME IS IT? (Century, season, year, day, minute, significance of time) right now we are in the Haitian revolution. right now it is hard for women to find decent jobs and make good money. 3.  WHERE AM I? (Country, city, neighborhood, home, room, area of room) I am in Haiti, in the city part living in ...

night women talked about..... - a women who works at night and "the night is the time I dread the most in my life " - she most likely is a prostitute and does this to make money for her family - she has a son that most likely is a toodler (7-11) - she tucks him in at night and then goes to work - she says when her son is sleep that is when the angels come to visit. this is what she tells her son to prevent from telling him the truth about what she does -she refers to a butterfly as her son "he is like a butterfly fluttering on a rock that stands out naked in the middle of a stream. -she has different men come to see her every night some with wives that bring her flowers -she says how her son will get too old and know that the stories that she is telling about what happens at night is fabricated and soon will know.

the story starts off with two narrators one male one female who are both in love, and are writing letters back and forth to each other. the female narrators father is against her love for this man because he only wants to protect his daughter from the macoutes. the male lover is currently escaping haiti on a boat because he is apart of the youth federation. on this boat there is a women named celianne who is pregnant and was actually raped by the macoutes, and her brother was forced to have sex with her mother, and then arrested. celianne has her baby on the boat as a still born and she throwes it over board, and then commits suicide. back in haiti the female narrator hears from the radio that there has been a sunken ship off the coast of haiti and she sees a black butterfly which resembles death and she knows that her lover has died. the second story is narrated by a girl named josephine who was born on the night that the chief of state hade ordered all haitians in D.R. to be massacr...