Noes on "Epilogue: Woman Like Us"(KK)

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


A Main character in the story I think is the author Danticat herself. This story is writing in second-person perspective, which means it is telling "you" the story. In the story it talks about a lot of themes that appears in the previous stories. It contains mother-daughter relationship; it mentions that as a mom, she thinks her daughter should not doing the useless writing job; she thinks that 'writing is not worth the scratch of a pig's snout.' But then Danticat said there must be someone standing out and talking about this, about the unfair treatment based on sex. That also counts as a theme of freedom. In the story there are one part that keeps repeating. "You remember thinking while braiding your hair that you look a lot like your mother. Your mother, who looked like your grandmother and her grandmother before her." I think this means that all the spirits of her ancestors and families are staying with her. She is the one who uses the identity of them and make a revolution by using her pens and papers. She also mentions that she writes this book for those Haitian who suffered in different kinds of situations. She mentions that: "When she was done she would ask you to name each braid after those nine hundred and ninety-nine women who were boiling in your blood." By saying this I think she means the she writes for her people in Haiti. After reading this, I find out that Danticat is a strong and powerful woman. Even though her mother refused her to become a writer, she still did it for her people in Haiti. She is absolutely a great revolutionary, a revolutionary who calls for freedom. She mentions that: "Writers are tortured and killed if they are men. Called lying whores, then raped and killed, if they are women." Even though she knew that she might get in trouble by writing this book, she still finished it and published to the public because she wants every person in the world knows what is going on in Haiti.