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There are such few Americans who know about Haiti, and the tragedies that the country had gone though. In Edwidge Dandicat’s Krik? Krak! This was originally published in 1991, shows her audience the audacities that happened during the Duvalier’s dictatorship. Danticat lets her audience see that even though the Haitian’s are going through these massive troubles they are also going through emotional troubles, such as heart break. These forms of troubles may not seem as difficult as the many; many other hardships the characters have gone through. Although, through “Children of the Sea” and “Caroline’s Wedding” Danticat shows two different stories, though very different, can be similar. Both Caroline and the unnamed woman were told that the men

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