Children Of The Sea In Edwidge Danticat's Krik Krak

She has dreams and hallucinations about the boy’s death. As soon as Vera steps onto the island, she begins to think, “The sea. . . So peaceful today – sometimes so cruel. . . The sea dragged you down to its depths. Drowned. . .

her son. Esme’s husband had cheated on her. The mistress brought the baby to Esme’s husband and

She was beaten, shackled and “was wet with the dew of all the men who had covered her before” him(4). He quickly recognizes her because his mother is also an Ila woman. He takes care of her — washing her disarrayed body, starting a fire for warmth and protection, and hunting for food. He also believed in fasting for ten consecutive days as a way of a spiritual cure those who are suffering, “in this way the spirit of the dead one grows weak, finally it lets go and journeys to the land of the soul” (5). He grew weak, yet still taking care of her. They began to love one another, and did not want to be apart. Taking her first steps, she ventured to short travels, but was not ready for a lonesome journey. With each trial, the journey becomes a little farther. Twelve days later, she was gone. He holds himself back from calling her name aloud to take her back forever. He continues on with his journey to the village, hunting for food as he returns to the village not

first child, Nicholas. Sicken by a harsh labor, Rosaura is unable to tend to her child and

scared child at the start of the book. When Julia and her family are about to flea from

After days of being out at sea a storm started up. Lightning struck the boat, but everyone was okay. It had seemed like a long night, while the boat shook back and forth from the storm. Ben tried to fall asleep for hours and finally was able to.

It is observed that the historical happenings have a great negativity on the face of the society, which is yet to be fixed. And so,

Krak! , many of the characters lose their hope which results in losing their lives. In the story Children of Sea, a young pregnant women named Celianne was on a crowded boat headed towards Miami. While traveling to Miami, she gave birth but unfortunately the baby did not make it out alive. When Celianne founds out her baby is dead, she loses hope and her will to keep struggling through life.

Isabel was making herself at home, by exploring the island and adding to the map, she found a new love begin to grow. As time went on Isabel was bearing a child, exited and full of joy Isabel wrote to her mother back home “with the news of the expected arrival” (78). A letter was not sent from Tom, for his family was in the past and not to continue to the future, as his mother is dead and his father a cold man, he wanted no part in that life anymore, he focused on a rocking chair for his soon to be child. Time went on and a storm came, one that kept Tom with the light, and Isabel safely in bed. The storm thundered and defend Tom from Isabel's cries of help. The blood, covering Isabel and soaking the bed, she has lost the child. That’s when Isabel's life changed, everything had become dull, the room now a coffin she was trapped in “life had stopped at its edges” (90). Day passed and the couple grieved but chores didn’t stop, just as the light, the days went on. Completing chores outside Isabel heard a cry thought to be of her imagination, Tom cried “from the gallery - ‘on the beach! A boat!’” (100) this had Isabel running for the

She explained that she was a stol away but she didn't know what would happen if she hid on that boat she only new that it was forbidden to hide as a

Liz Luna is a young mother who got pregnant at the age 13 was scared and she knew that people would think badly about her. When Liz told her mom she was pregnant her mom told her she had to have the baby because if she got rid of her (Catalaya) she would have no heart.

placenta piece by piece. During this he gave her an infection in her uterus which killed her

She later discovers that she went out on a dock wrecked she could call her own repeating/vomiting, not able to recover awakeness.

2 girls they looked just alike but one had a brown spot on her face. When Queen Willow heard about the 2 babies she was extremely upset, so she took one of the babies and named it Magnolia. Anastasia was devastated, so she decided to lose all attachment to the other baby and raised the other baby Rosalie as an only

This how I learned from the three text how to fix my future.Also I wanted to show you how it helps and it is good to look at the past.Then when you even need to be happy look at the things you have done in your lifetime and share it with somebody.Finally when it comes to the way you have the past and future don’t always dwell in your past.That is how this essay shows how the past helps the future.