Edwidge Danticat Walk Straight Summary

Leaving at the very young age is like a new born bird trying to adapt the cruel environment by taking the risk of death to fly with other birds, and Edwidge Danticat, who was born in Haiti and has lived in the United States since the age of twelve, has been trying to bridge this divide.
The people in Haiti who struggled can especially be seen expressed through the works of Haitian writers and artists. In "Walk Straight," Danticat recalls overhearing a Haitian say about her work, "The things she writes, they are not us"(Danticat 32). She points out that "You are a parasite and you exploit your culture for money and what passes for fame" (Danticat 33). In such criticisms response, Danticat writes, "what is the alternative for me or anyone else
Was there something else we could have done?" (Danticat 82). A writer truly and meaningfully plunged into her work is like a suspicious person; every piece of experience seems like a reflection to the subject of their work similar to Danticat. Danticat expresses her feelings of humiliation and is therefore not sharing the pain and despondency (and now disaster) that the people she novelizes have suffered. In addition to the harshness, Danticat has lost many relatives and friends because of being Haitian, one or two to not identified or unheeded AIDS, another confinement as a hopeful refugee, one to the assassination and two more to the recent earthquake. As a true humanist and dedicated fiction writer, she could feel the pain from these victims, always be in a tune with, always wondering: What if she was one of those victims? Danticat is at her best when writing from inside Haiti. It is an astounding how she captures the textures of a reality she was a part of for only the first twelve years of her