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Almost all the main characters in the stories of Krik? Krak! are female. Why? What role do you think does Guy play in terms of the structure of the whole book? In my opinion, the author not only wants to portray the lives of Haitian Women but also describes how do Haitian families struggle to chase a good life. Since the author is a woman, and gender role is severely differentiated in Haiti, she wants to spread Haitian women’s experiences and pains from a woman’s perspective. Most of the stories in the book have a female narrator who is supporting the family. It advocates the independence of Haitian women in such a disastrous environment. Also, it depicts the Haitian women who live in other countries with the other worries. However, Guy is the person who mainly supports the family. As far as I concerned, the book has too many negative descriptions to the male that may causes misunderstandings to readers. The author likely forces on how do Haitians fight with unfairness and dangers in...

1. If the author wants to portray a theme of how do single Haitian women struggle, why does she choose a prostitute, not a maid, or a pieceworker's story? 2. What is the tendency of Guy's suicide? Delivering his ideas to the people at there or self-actualization？ 3. Most of the stories in the book have two generations, who live in two extremes. Is young generation possible to follow the same path? 4. What is the focus of the topic "New York Day Women"? "New York" or "Day women"?

In Epilogue, the narrator is probably the author of the book, since she talks about her reason to write for her country. However, it is extremely hard that she has a chance to write because of her mom's expectation. Her mom expects her to work in regular jobs in order to earn enough money to support herself, while the narrator doesn't want to make recessions. As a Haitian writer, she is willing to record and spread Haitian cultures and she feels the responsibility from this activity. The Epilogue is named Haitian women, and the whole book mainly talks about Haitian women, which unifies the style of the whole book in different occupation, countries, situations. Obviously, compared to the other countries and male, Haitian women have no chance to chase their dreams, yet the book depicts how do Haitian women grind in the harsh environment.

Characters: Grace Ma Caroline Eric Grace is a Haiti immigrant and finally became an American citizen. Her sister is Caroline and her mother is Ma. Grace is a person struggling between the identity of Haiti and America because she loves her mom and her sister. Grace recognizes her sister's way of living in the United States and respects her mom's feelings to the homeland. Ma is their mother, who has a strong feeling to keep Haitian tradition. To be a Haitian woman leaving home for twenty-five years, she wants her offsprings mentally to keep being a Haitian. She couldn't bear that her daughter, Caroline, married with an American and got abandoned. It is obvious that Caroline has a strong, rejecting feeling to the Haitian tradition because of her mom, and she loves America and its culture. Eric truly cares about Caroline. Compared to the strong conflict of culture in this story, the existence of Neutral Eric is weakened.

Grace’s mother is jealous of Caroline, who has an American identity and her marriage with an American. Ma believes that if she makes soup, Caroline’s wedding will be destroyed. Caroline is a Haitian. Since Caroline is born in America, Caroline is born with U.S citizenship, which helps her to avoid hardships that immigrants would have. The blood inside of Caroline has a conflict with her identity, which causes misunderstandings and jealousy from her relatives.

At first, the day women described in Night Women are different from the day women in Brooklyn. Day women in Night Women are mostly working as pieceworkers in the daytime to earn little money, while the day women in New York have free time in the daytime, exploring the world. Finding the similarities between the two stories, two characters, both stories reflect the embarrassed social status and the weakness of women, which represent the gender role in both countries. Female were mostly not highly educated at that time so they could not engage in common jobs. Since a majority of people recognized the statement that men should support the family, single mom undertakes more pressure than male. Both of them have a hard time making money and they have no man to rely on. On the way of supporting the family, they can only make sacrifices on themselves to support their children. In the aspect of dignity, women make decisions to become either night women or day women. Effort...

The female narrator Mother In Brooklyn, my mother is not involved in the local environment and society. She is not like most of the women who are interested in shopping and she doesn't like people to judge her appearance. The narrator is following her mother. Her mom compares the discipline of drivers between Brooklyn and Haiti and compares the other facts with Haiti. The Narrator found that a day woman who works during the daytime leaves her baby to her mom for a while. Her mom tries to please the child by buying a can of soda, but they don't have too much communication.

We Are Listening: In Metropolis, people are too busy to listen so the best place for listening should be outside. Blind people are good at listening to the environment. The poem is in chronological order, from the beginning to the night to the dream, and the author lists several places to search sounds. The point that reminds me about listening is "we imagine". When people focus on listening to something, they will gradually block the other sense organs to imagine to sound. Like Your Face: A poem describes someone's face with many metaphors. Actually, eyelashes become the only part of the face mentioned in the poem, while the other lines refer the face to nature's description. From a small face to the giant world, it is a big shift. (1) What spirit do you want to transfer to your readers? (2) Do you suggest people use the money to support their dreams?

Characters: The female narrator, Marie A Dominican pool cleaner Summary： In the beginning, the narrator found a dead baby on the street and she thought that the dead baby is beautiful and awaken her consciousness to babies in her mind. Then the narrator recalls her unhappy memory with her cheating husband because the sense of betrayed is harmful to her. She names the baby Rose and takes her from the street. Also, she considers that this dead baby is her child. The narrator is a maid and she put the baby in her room. There is a Dominican pool cleaner cleaning at there three times a week and they once made love on the grass. Rose has gradually become rotten, in order to cover that, then Marie used the perfume but it doesn't work well. Eventually, Marie decides to take Rose down to a spot behind the big house and digs a hole for her, but it is seen by the Dominican pool cleaner. He claims that it's a devil activity, Rose, Marie, and the cleaner stay between the pool and the ...

Jacob & Ivan Both of them are night women, having two different kinds of monologue. Ivan tries to stimulate the scene of the mother pulling the curtain. Jacob tries to have a monologue to simulate the scene of having a customer. To support the son and to give him a good future. Ivan pulls the curtain and whispers to the son, then he starts his monologue. Jacob starts with knocking at the door, which represents the customer, and then he sits on the chair to start his monologue. It is difficult that they make the same character on a stage, then they choose to separate themselves into two scenes, starting with the end with customers. Lesley and Jasmine From their initial description, it can be clearly implied that Jasmine is the night woman, and Lesley is the pregnant girl. They respectively play two distinctive roles. The night woman that Jasmine plays is a woman with a solid faith in her life, while the girl is depressed by her experience. The theme of them is the night woma...

(1) Who am I? A prostitute and a single mom. Her husband has gone, and she is living with her only son. The family is in poverty so she decides to be a prostitute, who is a night woman earning money to support her son. When her husband is gone, she leaves all of her hope to the future on this kid and extremely loves her son. At night, she makes up and tells her son that she is waiting for the angel who will bring his father's ghost, but ghosts are customers. To be a prostitute, she believes that it is enough to provide a good life for her son. Also, she knows that her son will gradually realize the truth behind. (2) What time is It? Exact dates mentioned in the story are, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, for two customers respectively.   (3)Where am I? Many prostitutes stay in the Ville Rose where ghost women ride the crests of waves. She lives in a small house with her son.  (4)What surrounds me? Obviously, the society doesn't accept women to wo...

A wall of fire and night women have a common theme which is sacrificing. There are two families in each story. Also, it has one person to hold a whole family. The dad in the a wall of fire sacrifices his life and the mom in night women sacrifices her pride. However, both of them sacrifice for their families. In a wall of fire, dad is the only source of income in the family. When his son’s recitation of a play at school stimulates him, and the hot air balloon in his working place, he is stimulated to have a try in his entire life. When he jumps off from the balloon, surrounding people and his son are touched by his spirit. It can be illustrated as an indication to encourage people not to be chiained by poverty or low social status. He sacrifices his life to ignite people and to encourage his son in a depressed society. Night women can be simply comprehend as a single mom feeding her son. Even though being a prostitute is an activity that loses one’s dignity to the other people and fam...

Why does the author introduce the background information and characteristics of whoremasters.

Characters: Mom Son Emmanuel Alexandre Plot: Mom and son live together because dad is gone. In order to make money, mom decides to be a night women who is a prostitute. She does her job aside her son, since her son is young and he has no sense of sex. Mom extremely loves the son and sees him as the only lover left in the world. At night, mom would lip his face and confirm whether the son has fallen to sleep. When the son notices about his naked mom at night, she would tell whom the woman is an angel, bringing the ghost of dad to them. There are two whoremasters with different characteristics and backgrounds. In the end, the son asked mom if he has missed the angel, mom responded that angels haven't come yet. Personal Response: The miserable life experiences of women is a common topic in four stories so far. Male always lose their lives under various competitions in society, while female may also lose their lives or be responsible for the rest of works left by the mal...