Response to the first three stories(Krik Krak)

Read the next 2 stories in KK. Write a blog post in response to the first 3 stories. Choose a theme that you see to be common in all 3 and explore what Danticat is showing us or asking us to think about this theme. Analyze 2 direct quotes. 500 words 

Children of the sea I already talked about it in the last blog post. It is about the letters between two characters who would never meet each other again. The second story is called "Nineteen Thirty-Seven". The background of it is that Josephine's mom, who was a survivor during the massacre of Haitians, was arrested. People claimed that she was a witch because when she took care her friend's baby, who was suffering with colic, and that kid died. Later on her mom was burned in the prison. The third story is called "A Wall of Fire Rising". The main characters are Guy, his wife Lili, and his son Little Guy. They were poor, and sometimes they could not even have supper. In my opinion, Guy is the main character. One day his son gets a role of the play, which is acting as Boukman, a revolutionary during the fight. The lines that his son get really touch Guy's heart. His son is more like a narrator in the play, the lines his son recited seems refer to the life of Guy. Guy got a temporary job in the sugar mill. At there Guy found his destiny - an hot air balloon. He talked about flying by the balloon to his wife, but Lili thought that was too dangerous. At the end, Guy still got on the balloon, but he committed suicide.

Through reading these stories, I found out that all the stories have one theme in common - revolution. In other words, Haitians tried to do revolution. In the first story, the male narrator fled the country because he was a member of the youth federation, a revolutionary group. In the second story, Josephine's mom survived during the Haitian massacre, and every year she would go to the rivers with other survivors to "see" the dead. In the third story, Guy was tired of the repetitive things; at the end, he suicide in order to get freedom. I think Danticat wanted readers to see the revolution Haitians did, the unfairness they got, and the unfortunate life. In the third story, the little Guy at the end recited that: "I call on our gods. I call on our young. I call on our old. I call on our mighty and the weak. I call on everyone and anyone so that we shall all let out one piercing cry that we may either live freely or we should die." This quote typically talked about the revolution. The lines urged people to do revolution. He said that if they do not do revolution, they will die. Just like Guy in the story. He had to work in order to feed his family but he wanted to revolt to his life. His wife is also a contradictory character. Lili does not want their child to be a permanent worker, but at the same time he does not want Guy to take risk. It is like she wants revolution but at the same time she is scared. During the conversation between Guy and Lili, Guy asked: "Do not you ever want to be something new?" Lili however said she does not like it. But at the end of the conversation, Lili asked: "If you were to take that balloon and fly away, would you take me and the boy?" I think in this quote, Lili knew that she could not stop her husband to get on the balloon, which means that she knew that her husband would revolt to the unfair life. Just like Lili's thought, Guy broke the rule; he took the balloon; he flew to the sky; he died to get freedom.
Danticat wrote this to show readers that how much effort Haitians did for the revolution. They would even used their life to revolt. In the second story, Josephine's grandmother fled away from Dominican Republic's army while saw her mom was killed. Guy used his death to fight against the unfairness Haitians got. This all confirms an quote from the story: "We may either live freely or we should die."