Children Of The Sea Analysis

In the first five stories of Krik Krak, one of the themes that those stories have in common is that people all suffer from their lives. In “Children of the Sea”, both the female narrator and the pregnant women suffer from the experiences of their lives. The female narrator experiences the sufferings because she is separated from her boyfriend who is on a boat to America. This separation is painful for her, since when she thinks that his boyfriend is sent away by her father she wishes “those macoutes would kill him”. Also she calls his father “pig peasant” when she debates with him, demonstrating that the suffering causes her emotion out of control (13). The female narrator also suffers emotionally because her family is forced to move to another city in order to avoid the violence caused by the macoutes, after they eyewitness their savage killing of their neighbours (16). As a young girl, the female narrator experiences sufferings from her life, which is the theme of the stories. Moreover, the male narrator keeps a diary which record a pregnant women on the boat, and in his record the women also suffer both physically and emotionally. She does not
When Guy hears that his son is chosen to play the main character during a show, his first action is to ask if they need to buy new clothes for this (54). Instead of being proud of his son, Guy first concerns about the financial condition of his family. His action shows that his family is poor and has little money to spend beside the basic demands. The poverty of his family is also proved later when the narrator says that Guy’s wife makes special sweet tea to “kill the vermin in the stomach that made poor children hungry” (58). They suffer from the poverty that they do not even have enough food for their child. Related to the whole book, the theme that people all suffer from their lives is revealed in this