Notes for "Krik? Krak!"

 1) identifying characters, 2) summarizing the plot, and 3) offering some personal response/ideas about the story

Children Of the Sea:
There are two story-lines in this chapter. One is from a girl, who loved a boy who fled away because he was one member of the youth federation, and macoutes were killing them.  Another one is from the boy, he fled away and wrote down these on a boat with other "refugees". From the girl's side, she lived with her father and manman(probably her mom?), and her father had a cousin. From the boy's side, he was not sure whether his parents were killed or not. But on the boat, the main characters are an old man, a pregnant girl who named Celianne.
From the girl's story-line, she hated his dad at the beginning of the chapter because his dad did not allow her to be with the boy. And she said that rape and killing happened all around them. Their neighbors were killed by the macoutes because their son was a member of the youth federation. Also she talked about macoutes forced a dad or a mom to have relation with their daughter or son, and then they arrested them said that they had moral crime. At the end of the chapter, the girl changed her mind about her dad. She found out that her dad gave up everything in order to protect her. From the boy's story-line, he described that sailing was the most terrible thing he had met. Everyday was the same and he disgusted the smell of the ocean. They even pooped in the sea while everyone can see them. One of the person on the boat was Celianne. She was raped by mascoutes, and her brother was forced to have sex with her mom; after that, her brother was arrested and never came back. After the baby was born and died, Celianne at first did not want to throw the baby away. But finally she did, and she also jumped into the sea.
When I read the book, I got shocked. The rape and killing was all around the people. People even feel hopeless just like the male narrator on the boat; he said that if the death come, he will totally accept it. Another thing that shocked me was the rape and the sex happened in the family. Mascoutes seems could do everything they want. They just carried the machine gun and killed the people who they did not like. And they could impose crimes on anybody: forcing them to have sex with one of the family members, and arrested them by saying they violated the moral crime.