Summary Of Edwidge Danticat's A Wall Of Fire

Many families struggle to get food on the table, or to even get their kids clothes that fit. So many people have to do different things to get enough to provide for not just themselves but their family too. Sometimes what they do leads to loss of innocence, and sometimes even death. Edwidge Danticat’s novel of many short stories Krik? Krak! Shows what many Haitian families that live in poverty have do even the unthinkable to provide for their family. In the story A Wall Of Fire Rising on page 55 Guy the father trying to do the unthinkable for his family. Guy is talking to his wife about a waiting list for a sugar mill job. “I am still number eighty-seven on the permanent hire list. I was thinking of putting the boy on the list now, so maybe by the time he becomes a man he can be put up for a job” Without thinking Guy was already trying to get his son ready to support the family later on in

Here we see a different way of doing the unthinkable because This girl's mother has to really just crush her daughter's dreams of becoming a writer. On page 193 “You remember when you laid your first notebook in front of her. Her disappointment when you told her that words would be your life's work, like the kitchen was always hers.” “Writers don't leave any mark in the world. Not the world that we are from. In our world, writers are tortured and killed if they are men. Called lying whores, then raped and killed if they are woman. In our world if you write, you're a politician, and we know what happens to politicians. They end up in prison dungeon where their bodies are covered in scalding tar before they’re forced to eat their own waste. The family needs a nurse not a prisoner.” That could not of been easy for a mother to say to her child who was passionate about writing, but it was her way of doing the unthinkable to make sure her daughter stayed