A Wall Of Fire Rising By Edwidge Danticat

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Tragedy is what I would describe Edwidge Danticat’s short story, “A Wall of Fire Rising”. Guy’s family is living in Haiti and they are in extreme poverty. His family struggles to put food on the table because of their lack of a regular source of income. However, through all of the ups and downs they are a very close-knit family. This story is in third person point of view, specifically third person omniscient point of view because the author does a very good job of giving insight into the internal thoughts of the characters. One example is when Lili tells Little Guy to show Guy his lines in the school play. Danticat writes, “The boy went back to the corner where he had been studying and pulled out a thick book carefully covered in brown paper,”