Monday classwork

  1. 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 is doing this job is to provide former son because she doesn't have a husband to work for the family, and she is just doing the best she can to make her son get a good education and have a life for himself. 


2. How does the writer give insight on the Haitian culture and people, use an example

The writer gives insight on the Haitian culture and people by giving examples of rituals like for example in nineteen thirty-seven when the narrator had said "when I was five years old, we went on a pilgrimage to the massacre river, which I had expected to be still crimson with blood, but which was as clear as any water that I had ever seen." this is a prime example the Haitian people and what they went through and how they pass along rituals and the story of their culture onto their children and the writer is trying to also pass the experiences of the Haitian people to the reader. the narrator of nineteen thirty- seven was a girl who's mother had crossed the massacre river trying to survive. at the time she was crossing the Dominican boarders into Haiti. by using this story it allowed Edwidge Danticat to get further in depth about the history of Haiti and how the massacre river was a memorial place that may Haitians were killed. 

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