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Krik Kkak Analysis

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Freedom. A longing dream for Haitians. They struggle day in and day out. However, every struggle brings forth a fragment of freedom. One Haitian may not make a difference, but generations of Haitians will. Throughout the book Krik? Krak!, Danticat uses the motif of generations to portray the idea that through struggles and hardships, freedom is achieved over time. One prominent example is, Danticat expresses are the mothers who sacrifice themselves for their children. In the story of “Night Women”, a widow along with her son live in a shack that is split into two rooms with a curtain as a divider. As a poor family of two, the mother must prostitute herself to provide for her son. The mother describes, “Should my son wake up, I have prepared my fabrication. One day, he will grow too old to be told that a wandering man is a mirage and that naked flesh is a dream. I will tell him that his father has come, that an angel brought him back from Heaven for a while.… The stars slowly slip away from the hole in the roof as the doctor sinks deeper and deeper beneath my body…” (75). Secretly, the mother prostitutes herself. She does this not for her own needs, but to give her son a happy life. Hopefully, by the time her son grows up and can support the family, she can be free from the difficult life she has now. Another example Danticat uses, is from the story “Missing Peace,” where a girl named Lamort lives with her grandmother. The house they live in has an extra room,

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