Krik Krak
Krik? Krak! Reading Response
In the collection of short stories, one thing is certain about the lovers. It is a known fact that in those stories, the lovers love each other. They are not fake lovers of any kind. The most prevalent example of this is in the story Children of The Sea. The male narrator says “I know your father might never approve of me. I was going to try to win him over. He would have to cut my heart out to keep me from loving you”. That best explains the sequence amongst the lovers in the book. But their love is not all that holds. The lovers in the short stories all love each other but in some way there is conflict with them being together. There is a conflict with the lovers being with each other to express that love for one another due to the conflict of the country, the nationality or something.
Parent- children relationships in these short stories are not ideal, but they are close. In these stories, the children seem to be close to their parents in one way or another. Even though there is an unfortunate event in the stories (Guy Dying in “A Wall of Fire Rising” and Josephine’s mother in “Nineteen Thirty Seven”), there is still a bond between the parent and the children. In A Wall of Fire Rising, Guy was very excited to tell his father about his role in the play only to be robbed of it by his mother. This example alone shows that the relationship between Guy and his son little Guy was very strong. Little Guy seemed as though he always wanted to please his father. This is evident even through the tragedy in the end in which Guy dies and his son recites his lines over his body.
The mothers and daughters relationships seem to be okay but are a little strange. In the short story “New York Day Women”, Suzette sights her mother in Brooklyn but never says anything to her nor does she attempt to. Near the end of the story, she wonders whether or not her mother would have said hello if she had seen her. This is a little strange because all
In the collection of short stories, one thing is certain about the lovers. It is a known fact that in those stories, the lovers love each other. They are not fake lovers of any kind. The most prevalent example of this is in the story Children of The Sea. The male narrator says “I know your father might never approve of me. I was going to try to win him over. He would have to cut my heart out to keep me from loving you”. That best explains the sequence amongst the lovers in the book. But their love is not all that holds. The lovers in the short stories all love each other but in some way there is conflict with them being together. There is a conflict with the lovers being with each other to express that love for one another due to the conflict of the country, the nationality or something.
Parent- children relationships in these short stories are not ideal, but they are close. In these stories, the children seem to be close to their parents in one way or another. Even though there is an unfortunate event in the stories (Guy Dying in “A Wall of Fire Rising” and Josephine’s mother in “Nineteen Thirty Seven”), there is still a bond between the parent and the children. In A Wall of Fire Rising, Guy was very excited to tell his father about his role in the play only to be robbed of it by his mother. This example alone shows that the relationship between Guy and his son little Guy was very strong. Little Guy seemed as though he always wanted to please his father. This is evident even through the tragedy in the end in which Guy dies and his son recites his lines over his body.
The mothers and daughters relationships seem to be okay but are a little strange. In the short story “New York Day Women”, Suzette sights her mother in Brooklyn but never says anything to her nor does she attempt to. Near the end of the story, she wonders whether or not her mother would have said hello if she had seen her. This is a little strange because all