Krick By Edwidge Danticat Summary

According to Haiti Partners, Haiti ranks one of the least developed countries and approximately 59% of the population lives on less than two US dollars a day. Krick? Krack! by Edwidge Danticat is a collection of short stories about the daily life that Haitians face in the oppressed, poverty stricken country of Haiti. Danticat suggests that people deal with the suffering caused by oppression with numerous different antics.

For some people, the suffering endured is too severe to handle causing them to sadly end their lives. In children of the sea, whilst on a boat fleeing Haiti to the United States a young girl named Celianne, has a baby that does not survive after the loss of her baby Celianne could not handle her suffering. “She threw it
Other people deal with suffrage in a less destructive way by feeling shame shame. In the story, New York Day Women, the woman described in the story was a Haitian immigrant. She migrated from Haiti to the United States and then to New York where she has two daughters, Grace and Caroline. She escaped from the oppression and poverty and traveled to New York where she was able to make a better life for herself. She left her family and life back in Haiti. “ [the] mother who taught herself to read as a little girl in Haiti from the books that her brothers brought home from school. [ the ] mother who has now lost six of her seven sisters in Ville Rose and has never had the strength to return for their funerals.”
Because she left her family suffering in Haiti, she indirectly feels the suffering and she feels shame for not bringing them with her and shame for not attending the funerals. She feels shame for leaving her family in Haiti while she was able to have a better life. In Caroline's Wedding, the main character, Grace, and her mother attend a Sunday mass for the Haitian Refugees that have died at sea during the past week . Two of which being Celianne and her baby, Swiss. The immigrants from Haiti that live in New York gather and grieve for the