Edwidge Danticat's Nineteen Thirty-Seven

In the short story Nineteen Thirty-Seven written by Edwidge Danticat. In the story the author is telling about her life and the stories her mother told her about the 1937 Massacre in the river. It shows how her manman is in jail. How her manman saved both of their lives even though she had to leave her own manman behind. The whole story is mainly telling the death of her manman. In the first section of the story it is letting the reader imagine the trip to visit her manman in prison. She takes the Madonna that came from her great-great-great-grandmother that has been passed down from generation to generation. It just cried that morning before the author had visited her manman. On the way to the prison a woman stopped her and told her where