Krik Krakkok Analysis

Do you know of the struggles that Haiti is going through?How did it make you feel when it happened to you?Krik Krak is based around haiti and the struggle its citezins go through.In the book,Krik Krak, a series of short stories,the author danticat utilizes juxtaposition to create grieving characters that in return create the overall mood depressing throughout the book.The specific examples that best display grieving characters creating mourning mothers and children.
In the middle of the book,the short story,”between the pool and the gardenias”Maire,one of the main characters,has been mourning for children,originally she describes her dead children.”The girls who slept with my husband while i was grieving over my miscarriages”(Danticat 92).Furthermore,

Near the end of the book,the short story “the missing peace”, creates a mourning child named lamort.she describes why she is named lamort,”My mother died while I was being born”(danticat 109).Her grandmother and lamort blame themselves.”My grandmother was really mad at me for that”(danticat 109).lamort changes from a mourning character to a depressed character when you learn this information. Danticat uses juxtaposition to create grieving characters that create a depressing mood which brings that reader to text connection.the author danticat utilizes juxtaposition create grieving characters who in turn the overall mood depressing throughout the book.Krik Krak is a sad book that has its up and downs. but as the book goes on it gets darker and more depressing.If the events in Krik Krak are true and happen to you. How would you react to the situations the main characters go through in the