Krik? Krak ! Literary Analysis

Living in Haiti, people may think that they aren’t free because of their countries spotted history with the general freedoms that are allowed in America. Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat is a novel that explores the terrible things that happen, and have happened in Haiti and how these hardships affects those that have lived through them. The novel is about the Haitian people who have gone through hard times and just want to be freed from what imprisons them in Haiti, Danticat conveys freedom throughout her novel Krik? Krak!, by showing how people want freedom and what they would do to acquire freedom. People in Haiti have so much to fear because of their country’s spotted history with politics and how people in power would wield that power, that the citizens would never know if they are free. People flee the country on the smallest chance that they could survive, because staying in Haiti and opposing the current government would mean certain death. Just like the man on the boat in “Children of the Sea,” “Perhaps I was chosen… as I
As is stated in the “Epilogue: Women Like Us” where the narrator feels pressure from her mother, “The fragile sky has terrified you your whole life… thousands of years.”(195). The narrator is under pressure to live up to the standard set by her mother, because her mother sacrificed so much for her. So she just wants freedom from the stress of that pressure. Another example of a want for relief of pressure is when Guy jumps off of the hot air balloon in “A Wall of Fire Rising,” “‘Do you want to close the eyes?’... ‘No leave them open,’ Lili said. ‘ My husband, he likes to look at the sky.’”(67) All Guy ever wanted to do was to reach the sky to where the pressure to give his son a good life was ever so small. The pressure is taken away when people go to the place where their imagination soars like an