Hope In Edwidge Danticat's 'Krik? Krak !'

Hope in Poverty
The definition of freedom is the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved. But if this is not a plausible idea to someone, how can this ever be accomplished. “Krik? Krak!”, by Edwidge Danticat, reveals freedom can only be achieved if there is hope. She demonstrates the influence of hope while creating horrifying pictures of poverty and despair in the reader’s mind.
In A Wall of Fire Rising, the father of the family is lead to freedom through his hope. Guy, the father, often dreams of leaving Haiti and going somewhere new. He even contemplates stealing a hot air balloon from one of the rich families in the village to escape his troubled life of poverty. While they were going to bed, Guy confesses to his wife, “Sometimes, I just want to take that big balloon and ride it up in the air. I’d like to sail off somewhere and keep floating until I got to a really nice place with a nice plot of land where I could be something new. I’d build my own house, keep my own garden. Just be something new.”(Danticat 61) Struggling with the hardships he faces everyday from the
The boy narrator examines the people around him, confined in the small boat on the endless sea. He writes to his lover, “I have heard that a lot of these boats have young children on board. I am glad this one does not. I think it would break my heart watching some little boy or girl every single day on this sea, looking into their empty faces to remind me of the hopelessness of the future in our country. It’s hard enough with the adults. It’s hard enough with me.”(Danticat 5) The boy has decided to abandon his country and seek his freedom in America. He has taken action and left Haiti because there is no hope left for it, it is at a point of no return. America is now his only hope to obtain the free life he wants. Without this desire for a free life, he would still be in Haiti, under the corrupt government living