Create Dangerously By Edwidge Danticat Summary

Akile Dixson
Professor Vazquez
ENC 1101
28 September 2014
Why Create Dangerously Edwidge Danticat, Haitian writer and immigrant, writes about art forms in Haiti, hope, and change. She tells the audience of the tragic yet inspirational deaths of Numa and Drouin in 1964. This is a collection of essays that new college students should read for its strong messages. Danticat’s main points are do not give up, the importance of art, and always speak up. Initially, Danticat’s words scream that to cause change there must be change. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. If the slaves from St. Domingue never first revolted there may not have ever been a Haitian revolution. ”Schools were shut down and principals ordered to bring their students” (Danticat 1). Numa and Drouin were shot and killed just outside of the national cemetery and were not given a proper burial. Numa, Drouin, and the other Jeune members just tried to do what many other Haitians also wanted to get rid of Duvalier. Moreover, as a result of the Numa and Drouin incident many Haitians turned to art. The artists from this time in Haiti had inspiration everywhere. They drew inspiration from the events that happened around them and from that came a muse for them. Even though there were somber nights they found inspiration to create. “I became a
“Haiti, had gained its independence through a twelve-year slave uprising” (Danticat 97). Jean Dominique Haiti’s most famous radio commentator managed to make it through several exiles. “We had all come to think of him as heroically invincible” (Danticat 42). “Jean had expressed his opinions freely, seemingly without fear, criticizing groups as well as individuals, organizations, and institutions who’d proven themselves to be inhumane ,unethical or simply unjust” (Danticat 42). Dominique was assassinated on his way to his radio studio when he had come back from