Krik? Krak! a novel by Edwidge Danticat, is a very diverse novel. It includes the stories of many different perspectives of people who faced different hardships. In this novel, there are images of the rich and poor classes. With amazingly written and visualized stories, Edwidge Danticat cohesively displays the disparity between the rich and poor classes in Haiti. This is supported by several chapters that are all consecutive after this first chapter. Between the Pool and the Gardenias is the first chapter that shows a significant difference between the rich and poor economic classes. “They liked that I went all the way to the market every day before dawn to get them a taste of the outside country away from their protected bourgeois life,” …show more content…
“She is like all those foreign women. She feels she can be alone. And she smokes too,” shows that the poorer classes have stereotypes for foreigners. Consequently in this novel, it is to be noted that all foreigners are viewed as higher beings. Such as rich class people, and they are portrayed as such. “I don’t want you to ask her to let you smoke any,” is what Marie’s grandmother told Marie when she asked if the foreigner used cigarettes. This shows how the poor classes do not openly ask for things from the rich class. “Then...oversized mahogany chairs and a desk that my grandmother had bought especially for...journalists,” shows how the poor classes try to appeal to the rich classes to gain benefits, such as money. Also, a good reputation. This brings more rich class people in. “She held a small carton box of butter cookies in front of me. I took one, only one, just as my grandmother would have done,” is an example of how if the poorer classes are offered something from the rich classes, that they think about modesty before accepting the offer. “Can you read what it says there,” is what the foreigner Emilie articulated to Marie. She replied with; “Intelligence is not only in reading and writing.” “I did not mean to make you feel ashamed,” was Emilie’s response. This is an example of how the rich classes do not think about how their words can affect the poorer classes because they do not