Summary Of Edwidge Danticat's Night Women

After reading the book "Krik? Krak!" (Danticat) I decided to write about the story "Night Women" (pages 81-88). In the chapter , author Edwidge Danticat talks about a women, a lonely women who has a little boy by a man who left them both. Although, this women really cares and loves her son, there's a dark side which the boy has been hidden from. In the story, the women narrates who she becomes when her son is asleep and night begins to take over. The women transforms into a prostitute so she can support herself as well as her son. There is a few men who come on different days and times to request her services after the kid falls asleep. The women can easily be portrayed as a "Hooker"as you begin to get to no her. In my opinion, I think what she does is not safe for her, or her clients for a number of reasons, first being the disease factor of having multiple sex partners. In this day and time individuals should not only be afraid of these types of women due to the HIV epidemic, but also in one split second there life could be compromised unable to fix what the outcome will be that leads to a slow death. On the flip side, the fear in which most individuals are afraid of, some benefit on for there own personal advantages. These individuals in power are known in society as "pimps" or Sugar Daddy's". In some cases these individuals mistreat and degrade the women who they employ.