Indecisive Characters In Krik Krak's A Wall Of Fire Rising

KRIK? KRAK! “When Haitians tell a story, they say “Krik?” and the eager listeners answer “Krak!”These collections of short stories in the book Krik Krak tell the lives of people living in Haiti. Their life stories will outrage, sadden, and take the reader with its sheer beauty. It will give the silenced Haiti its literary voice once again. In the book, Krik Krak, a series of short stories, the author, Danticat, utilizes juxtaposition to create indecisive characters that in return create the overall mood of sympathy throughout the book. The specific examples that display indecisive characters, creating the general sense of sympathy are Guy, Marie, and the night woman. In the beginning of the book, the short story, “A Wall of Fire Rising,” Guy, one of the main characters is held in a personal crisis about his life as a man and status. For example, Guy seems to be depressed for the life he has and has given to his family. “I was born in the shadow of that sugar mill” (Danticat 66). “Look at me, if my father had worked there, if he had me on the list, don’t you think I would be working” (Danticat

Throughout the book, Krik Krak, juxtaposition is utilized in each of the short stories written which in result create these indecisive characters that in exchange create the overall mood of sympathy. Although, an opposing viewpoint could be that the single mom in “Night Women” didn't have to become a prostitute to support her son, that she could have become a woman of the day time, but being a prostitute must bring in more money for her son and her compared to doing the things that women do during the day. “They ask Krik? we say Krak! Our stories are kept in our hearts” (Sal Scalora). So