Edwidge Danticat's Kirk? Kark ! Summary

Haiti’s political climate was not the best, nor was it very well put together. In 1969, the author of “Kirk? Kark!”, Edwidge Danticat was born and when he was growing up, he was growing up in a really not good political climate. A few years later after he was born, people started migrate out of haiti, more than before, to Floridia. Haiti was very poor and was suffering economic growth issues. The way that Danticat might have been affected by this is that Danticat would have migrated with the rest of the other travelers going to migrate to America and to live a richer life in America than in Haiti and since they were facing economic problems, she didn’t want to live in a poor place. This also might have shaped her life by being separated from

When I was younger, I was not affected by the political climate because I did not know about that back then. I was just affected by my neighborhood climate and to be scared of drug people and alcoholics. I still am to this day but now I have been affected and shaped differently from the political climate. When I started to watch the news about when I was 8 or 9, I started to think differently of what is happening in this word. How political climate has changed me as a person is that I see one thing from the news but since the news doesn’t always tell the truth or the correct thing, I don’t always trust it, but if that’s the only thing I find on the news and there isn’t another side to the story, I start to believe the news. Now all this political things are coming out to the world, I start to question older people now and how they think about everything else because they grew differently from us, so we have different mindsets from older people who have different mindsets from us. How it shaped me is that I really start to question this whole world and even me, but how it shaped me as a person is that from what I hear nowadays, I guess I either do what I hear or try not to do what hear and cause another problem on the