Children In The Sea By Edwidge Danticat

The theme I believe is present in “Children in the Sea” is, love is the strongest bond someone can have with another person. I choose to read “Children of the Sea” by Edwidge Danticat. In this story a man and women right in their journals, hoping someday they will meet again and be able to read each other’s journals. The girl is stuck back home with her dad and manman. He is at sea on a boat with others trying to escape from the terrible things that are happening back home in Haiti. His life on the boat in becoming terrible at the end of the story. He knows that the boat is doomed soon. Throughout the story the women talks about how butterflies symbolize a message is supposed to come. Once the man jumps off the boat, random black butterflies

She has written many novels and short stories. She was born on January 19, 1969, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Both her parents left her and her brother to move to the U.S, leaving them to live with their uncle and aunt. Eventually her and her brother got to move to the U.S to rejoin with their parent, and to meet their two siblings they never knew they had. Her parents wanted her to study medicine, but Danticat studied French literature at Barnard College in Manhattan, then creative writing at Brown University in 1993. Edwidge Danticat wrote “Krik? Krak!” in 1995. “Krik? Krak!” is a book of ten short stories written by Edwidge to show the struggle that many different people go through. During 1995 in Haiti, times were rough. Leadership was being switched and the Haiti military was doing terrible things to the civilians. Edwidge lived in Rhode Island when she wrote “Krik? Krak!” She was educated and understood what was going on in her home

In the story the women in angry at her parents for making her and her lover split apart. The women’s father did not want them together and she believes that he made him be sent away. In real life, I’m sure that she was extremely mad that her parents didn’t take her and her brother with them to the United States and left them to live with their uncle and aunt. They story makes me believe that she thinks her dad made her mom go with him and leave the children behind and her mother really didn’t want to leave them. The point of view is a great support to the thesis. Having the point of view in first person makes it feel personal to the characters. They express their feelings and their thoughts directly to the reader. The characters write journals telling how their lives are going. The experiences they must go through without each other. Both tell the reader that they really do love the other, but cannot be together because of how terrible the home land is. The setting shows that under even the worst situations that tragedy cannot break the bond of