Edwidge Danticat

had 10 brothers and sisters, but only one brother. Her only brother died at the age of

One crucial formalist element the author incorporates is the use of point of view. The way the story is told allows the reader to have an exceptional grasp on the meaning. The story’s layout follows the second-person point of view, which gives the opportunity for the author to address the readers directly, rather than just illustrating her own experiences with culture. Throughout the story, Ng redundantly uses the word “you” instead of “I”, for instance when she mentions, “Take pleasure in the surprise on people’s faces when you say, ‘My name is Mackenzie Altman’” (931). The main reason the author chose to peruse a second-person point of view is that she wanted the reader to be able to connect with the story on a personal level.

One artistic aspect of the book is that Stockett chose to tell the story from three different women’s perspectives. Using this stylistic technique helps keep the reader more engaged in the book. Each woman, whether it be Aibileen, Minny, or Skeeter, uses a

Through the novel, Danticat expresses this. In the chapter “Night Woman”, an unnamed woman wants her child to live freely and happily so she goes into prostitution. In “Nineteen Thirty-Seven” two different women talk about their experiences with The Massacre River of their mothers. They both talk about how generations of women have brought light and hope into their lives. In the chapter “Children of the Sea”, a young girl goes into labor, while stranded on a boat sailing to America. The sight of a new child brings hope to the people on the boat. Finally, in the story “Between the Pool and the Gardenias” a woman has experienced much loss and is hopeless. When she holds a baby in her arms, she experiences happiness and hope. These stories illustrate the idea that Haitians can find hope and strength through familial generations, both past and future. Haitians have been able to find light in the wake of disaster through the love of family, and the generations of

They both portray the dictatorial nature of the new government; the government that could not be opposed by the Haitians; the government that could not be questioned or condemned. However, on the other side of the story, reader can recognize that these women are protecting and caring for the society in Haiti, as Danticat acknowledges to Adisa “Women are middle pillars of society. I think that’s true of all societies. I agree to the often quoted maxim that we hold up half the sky.” Finally, another common feature in the above women is that they portray the weakness of the men in the society during this period. Danticat also discusses, “For a lot of poor families, the men are abroad or the society has crushed them and they’re absent for one reason or another” (348). Men were not always available to die and support women through their time of difficulty.

Judith Ortiz Cofer Was born in 11952, she moved with her family to Paterson, New Jersey, and when she was fifteen, the family settle in Augusta, Georgia. She is the Author of numerous books. In this essay from her book Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a writer (2002) Cofer remember a woman who make a big impact in her life during her teenage, Ms. Cofer talk about the Sister Rosetta as role model, she describe her with unique technique as teacher.

Nancy was twelve years old when her parents divorced and the family was split up. Half

The people had been fertilized in tubes and divided into five classes. They all satisfied with their conditions and lived all their lives as what they had been conditioned to be. Just under this “brave new world”, human had lost their personal emotions, lost their love—sex had replaced love, lost their religions, lost their right to think and their creativities. I like this book better than Girl with a Pearl Earring is not only because of the edification it gives to me but its philosophical property and the great imaginary space it provides which the other one does not have. Although its writing style might seems dull and harder to understand compared to the other, but the various topics it involved such as art, science, religion, common sense, solitary, reflection, moral, stimulation, sex and suffering would make you get more than what you read. The story of Girl with a Pearl Earring described an obscure love story between maid Griet and the painter Vermeer. “I felt as if my parents had pushed me into the street, that a deal had been made and I was being passed into the hands of a man. At least he is a good man, I thought, even if his hands are not as clean as they could be.” The delicate descriptions about the character’s inner activity made this book more beautiful and mysterious. The weakness of the book is just the

Using his primary expressive purpose, Danticat talks about his memories from his time living in Westbury Court. Much if not all of these happen to be rather violent memories, such as whenever his father's camera being stolen, or when a cabdriver was shot in front of the apartments. However the only memory he remembers most fondly

Many authors relate their own lives into the stories that they write as a way to express their feelings. Edwidge Danticat's life in Haiti affected much of her writing and she likes to relate her life into her books. A few ways she did relate her life into the book ‘Untwine’ is by writing about the death that she experienced, using her Haitian descent in the character's life, by making the character love art just as much as she does, and having the characters parents immigrate from Haiti just like her and so many of her family members did.

Elaine Potter Richardson, more famously known as Jamaica Kincaid, is recognized for her writings that suggest depictions of relationships between families, mainly between a mother and daughter, and her birth place, Antigua, an island located in the West Indies. She is also familiarized with Afrocentrism and feminist point of views. Kincaid’s work is filled heavily with visual imagery that produces a mental picture in readers that helps them connect stronger to the reading. An example of this really shines through in her short story piece, “Girl.” This short story describes the life of a lower class woman living in the West Indies, and also incorporates thick detailing between the relationship between her and her mother. Jamaica Kincaid structures the story as if her mother is speaking to her. She writes broad, but straight to the point, allowing readers to imagine to picture her experience. Kincaid uses visual imagery and repetition consistently throughout “Girl” to reveal the theme and tone of the story; conflictual affair between a mother and daughter.

The book “Krik Krak” written by Edwidge Danticat contains a story of Danticat in the past and how could she became a famous author today. She was born Haiti and a survivor who escaped oversea to the United States. Danticat’s past is painful and horrible but it influenced her present. The Haitian politics repressed certain group of women and the fear surrounded them everyday. To find her own freedom and her rights, Danticat got on board then arrived at New York. The racist weighed on her but she didn’t give up on the path that she chose. She learned English and had a dream to become a writer but that also an issue for Danticat. The Haitian writer often killed but it didn’t quench Danticat’s desire to keep their history

The irritation and despair of Esther Belin’s Night Travel flows with the fearless attitude of Laura Da’s Vantage. Both of these women are Native American, but are from different tribes and regions of the country.Yet they both express their Native American spirit separately through their poems. Laura’s style in poetry includes elements of time, travel, history and place. As for Esther Belin, her work portrays the experience of a Native American living in urban Los Angeles. She attempts to bring Native Americans into mainstream American culture and receive recognition, as well as discussing issues regarding racism and isolation (Poetry FDN).

In this story, the woman is portrayed as person who doesn’t depend on a man to succeed and give a good life to her kid. She was alone, she didn’t have the company of her mother either; but she was facing the challenges that the life put on her way, showing that women have the same strength, power, and ability to achieve success as men. I think that Danticat portrays the woman in that way in order to make

According to Danticat’s mother she had two rules for living: “Always use your ten fingers, which in her parlance meant that you should be the best little cook and housekeeper who ever lived” (1). Women in Danticat’s culture were mostly cooks and hair braiders. Her mother and women in her family were cooks and wondered what she would be. She wanted to be a writer because of all the frustration she held inside. She felt like she had nobody except the pencil and paper. Her mother said writing was forbidden because “it was an act of indolence,” (3) it could be “done in a corner” (3). She often wondered why she could not be a cook and a writer. The roles were simple in her family, if one were not a cook then they were nothing in her family. Danticat