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1. Why does the author put epilogue at the end of the stories? How does it explain about author herself? The story named Epilogue basically displays the life conditions of women in the Haiti. They are unknowledgeable and live a life by following the “strict rules” of Haiti. They live dependently on their husbands and family. They have no freedom and rights to decide their own life. Everything they do is based on their family and being a woman. For example, at the beginning of the story, the author use a lot of sentences to describes their life conditions by using tone of “your mother”, which brings the readers into the story deeply. Your mother’s second rule went along with the first. Never have sex before marriage, and even after you marry, your shouldn’t say you enjoy it, or your husband won’t respect you.” I think the author kinds of talking about her own history through talking with the stories. Because she is also so afraid of talking to be a writer to her mother. Through the sto...

Post 4 good thinking/discussion questions on your blog. The questions can refer to any story or stories in the book and/or the epilogue. 1. what is the connection with the author herself with the story Epilogue? GIve specific example to display? 2. what is the connection between the caroline's wedding and children in the sea? 3. The connections of all the stories describes what kinds of message to the readers? 4. in the New York day woman, do you think her mother find her own inner peace?

The narrator of the epilogue mostly speak in the second perspective by using “you”  statement. The story begins with “your mother”. “Your mother who looked like your grandmother and her grandmother before her.” I think it kinds of connects with the story “nineteen thirty-seven.” There are also lots of describes about the relationship between a mother and written. At the beginnings, it implies the mother’s perspective of “always use your ten fingers.” And the sound of writing also compare with the sound of “Kira krak” which is foreshadowing and symbols of the woman’s perspective of writing. So when the daughter shows her mother about her writing career, her mother is so disappointed about that. In the story, wirting could not be a thing that woman in this area could do. For example, the author compare the relationship between trees and pencils and pen to show her spirit of writing. However, as the reason of her “mother”, she is so struggling of being a writer. I think the story is b...

KK Blog Post 3 -- Compare Night Women to New York Day Women. What new opportunities do women have in the US vs. Haiti? What experiences are similar in both stories/places? What does this suggest about gender roles? 500 words. The narrator of two stories are different. Both of the main characters are woman who works for a job that they think is shamed. However, the stories expresses the truth through different perspective. According to the night woman, the narrator is a mom who working as a prosititude. From her perspective, the readers could recognize the shame of her to do the job. However, in the New York Day woman, the stories starts with the daughter’s perspective, which we could observe more about the mon’s behaviors. In the night woman, it consists of narrator’s observations and thoughts of the life and her job. Her mind is quickly changing from one step to another one, which is similar with the setting and plots. Moreover it connected with the  scene changes from one...

The story begins as the narrator named “Grace” who gets the American identity. And her mother reminds her to get a passport. So she obey the reminders and post her materials to the government. The family are worrying abou their materials because of Hermine has been arrested in a jail because of the immigration. The family includes another girl whose name is Caroline. The complication starts as Caroline’s wedding. Hermine wants her to marry with Haiti man. However, Caroline complaints about Hermine because she thinks she control too much of her life. When Hermine had a cobersation about the Caroline’s marriage. She reminds her dead husband marriage. Later, the story connects with the children in the sea about talking a girl named Cerliena. They attend her pary for her. Cerlinea suszsize because she couldn’t save her child. Which kinds of showing the ending of the children in the sea. When  Caroline complains her wedding with Eric because they just took the wedding by a small ceremon...

Starts from a specific day that the narrator saw the New York City and reminds of her mother. She thought about that her mother never went to the New York City and even feel afraid of taking the subways. She reminds all the the quotes from her mother and all the things she did. ‘would you get up and give an old lady like me your subway seat? 1. His mother’s perspective of others 2. Haiti’s rules about if there’s a traffic accident, the owner of the car could do anything because of their power. 3. Describing his mother about her appearance and life behaviors and even habits. Her life is filled with her memories with her mother. In her mind, when her mother’s body reached America, her soul is still making the trip. The narrators saw the whole process how her mother is struggling to come to terms with certain “American” behaviors. Like her mother never eat with people which is different from American’s life style of “eating out.” There are so many examples that describes of the rea...

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Marie finds a dead baby on the street. “Back in vile Rose you cannot even throw out the bloody clumps that shoot out and your whole...” and brings her back to her home and gives the baby name “Rose”. She tells her all of her life experience to her about her husband cheating. She slept with a dominant pool-cleaner for once. She tells her how love to her husband. she pretend the household where she works is belonged to her and imagines her grandmother visit her. When the baby start to rots, she steal the household’s perfume to cover. But she thinks the flies would effect the babies sprit and finally buried her in gardenias. When her husband finds that and call the police that Marie kills the babies. “We made a pretty picture standing there. Rose, me, and him. Between the pool and the gardenias, waiting for the law.” Marie lives in her world which she imagined a pretty nice life with her husband and has a babies. Comapring with her current life. She doesn’t even know her husband’s name...

Ivan’s group: night woman, separate scene. Ivan acts the beginning part. G says as a monologue to explain her job and perspective. Nia’s group: conversation. With the father. She expresses all her Three people conversation, argue, discuss the education about the kids. Ivan’s group: night woman, separate scene. Ivan acts the beginning part. G says as a monologue to explain her job and perspective. Nia’s group: conversation. With the father. She expresses all her Three people conversation, argue, discuss the education about the kids. Post a short reflection on your blog -- what did Tuesday's in-class performances reveal about the characters and stories presented? What was interesting and what did it make you think about or realize? 250-300 words    I think for my group, we did a good job of indicating our identity through the conversation and our actions. For example, I touched my stomach and walk slow to show that I’m pregnant and my partner talked about her experi...

My character is Celianne, who is a young lady pregnant. According to the text, she is only 19 to 20. “She looks like she might be our age. Nineteen or twenty. Her face is covered with scars that look like razor marks.” shows that she is young but pregnant. Celianne is in shock from the experienced she had with the miscounted. She and her mother has been raped by those people. So that’s the reason for her to be pregnant. I’m in the boat. There are lots of people surrounding her. They are all elder than her. “ Most of the other people on the boat are much older than I am.” Also, the description of her appearance is kinds of showing her characteristics. For example, “Her face is covered with scars that look like razor marks. she is short and speaks in a singsong that reminds me of the villagers in the north.” It creates the readers of a character who is shy and stayed away from the world. I think it could connect with Celianne’s experiences of raping. Because of that, she becomes quiet an...

Theme from the night woman : At the ending of the night woman, there’s a theme which talking about the ghost woman’s guest and his wife. After the huge break from that, there’s a conversation between the woman and her son. Her son asked her “ Mommy, have I missed the angels again?” “Darling, the angels have themselves a lifetime to come to us.” I think the conversation is so important that it basically points out the main message that the author sends to the readers. It also kinds of showing the relationship between the mum and her son. From my perspective, his son has already noticed or recognized that his mother is facing some huge problems.

Choose one theme: compare how it is explored in 2 stories. Don’t just summarize what happen—analyse what the author is trying to think about, etc. try be specific. Children of the sea & night women I think both of the article is talking about how people suffer from their life. The children of the sea talks about the man’s death and night women talks about her life as a “ghost woman.”. Appeartly, the author talks from both the male and female character in the children of the sea to show the different perspectives they have. She is more talking about a story which happens between a couple. For example, through both talking the man’s condition and his lover’s life. However, in the night woman, she describes more about the woman’s emotion and thoughts through narrators. She didn’t describe more about the son’s thoughts, which using the stories to recognize the woman’s life. In Both of the stories, there’s one person who suffering all to protect the other one. For

Children of the sea; Children’s of the sea” tells a story according to a man’s letter, which he writes for his lover. On the other scene of the play, his lover’s father refused her to marry with the male character, which makes the female character sad and tries to against her father. However, she finds that the man gives up all his possession to protect her from the miscounted. The female character heard that her neighbor was killed by a miscounted. Also, at the same time, the young ladies in the boat where the male character is, also has been raped by a miscounted. After few days her baby dies, she throws it away and jump into the lake. Butterflies/ “butterflies can bring news. The bright ones bring happy news and the black ones warn us death.” Symbols/ black butterflies—-death. Suffering life. Nineteen thirty-seven” —narrator joshpine, a woman whose mother is in the prison. The realistic ship between her and her mother. “Sister,” she said, “life is never lost, another one always...

Read the next 2 stories in KK. Write a blog post in response to the first 3 stories. Choose a theme that you see to be common in all 3 and explore what Danticat is showing us or asking us to think about this theme. Analyze 2 direct quotes. 500 words  “Children’s of the sea” tells a story according to a man’s letter, which he writes for his lover. On the other scene of the play, his lover’s father refused her to marry with the male character, which makes the female character sad and tries to against her father. However, she finds that the man gives up all his possession to protect her from the miscounted. The female character heard that her neighbor was killed by a miscounted. Also, at the same time, the young ladies in the boat where the male character is, also has been raped by a miscounted. After few days her baby dies, she throws it away and jump into the lake. The female character saw a black butterflies and recognized that the male character is died. I think the story bes...