Reading notes

l   The author’s friend/ boyfriend/husband has gone to the war

n   The author was angry and was easy to be angry

n   The author’s father used to doesn’t like the boy. But he changed after he gone.

l   The family moves away from the country (previous president caught up the war)

n   No more butterfly sketching, it brings news. The author is afraid of the news of the boys’ death may come.

l   They move to another place. (MIAMI?)

l   The author accept death (radio show- expect to government and country)

l   Student got killed. (radio six)

n   Families want the bodies back, some were given back by the army

n   Neighbor’s son got killed with only a head left (a car run over him and took his head off)

n   Macoutes laughed at her lost

n   The author hopes the boy really left the dangerous place but not being killed

n   The part with boldfaced letters are what author writes to the boy.

i will keep writing. you keep writing too, okay? and when we see each other again, it will seem like we lost no time.

Danticat, Edwidge (2004-01-01). Krik? Krak! (p. 7). Soho Press. Kindle Edition.

l   People are getting frail and sick because they have been on the boat for too long time.

l   They sing and tell stories to avoid vomiting (the author sings Beloved Haiti but she cried. She doesn’t other people to see so she pretend she was attack by nausea)

l   The author is jealous about other’s well-guarded house and nice parents. (make a comparison to her own life)

n   She also doesn’t want to join politicking

l   The pregnant girl found out there is a hole at the bottom of the boat( and it is getting bigger)

n   The captain uses tar to clog up the hole but it is just a temporary remedy.

The country that the author is living in is having a political problem with America. Everything related to America are being against. (Neighbor’s son and author’s friend might be killed by this reason)

l   The author is still keeping some tapes from the boy who is related to America. ( These tapes may bring danger to author’s family)

l   The author wish her father could be killed because she thinks her father sent the boy away.

l   Dream: The author really miss the boy, which she dreamed she went to the heaven and saw him.

n   The heaven is at the bottom of the sea. They boy was with his family, but his father kept blocking his view to see her. She wanted to talk with him, but only bubbles came out of the mouth)

l   A family sleeps together where the children sleep with their mother and never had to sleep with father. (mom thinks dad is protecting his family so he burnt all American stuffs.)

l   The boy died when they raided the radios tation

l   The author wants a love but her father want a boy who can really make the author’s life better.

l   Now people have been on the boat for many days. They tell stories mostly about them self.

UNTILE NOW I FINALLY REALIZE THE BOOK IS WRITEN BY TWO PEOPLE. ONE IS THE BOY. THE OTHER IS THE GIRL. I USED TO THINK ONE IS THE GIRL’S DIARY. THE OTHER IS HER LETTERS TO THE BOY.

The girl is from Haitian. she and her family is going to Bahamas. They treat Haitians like dogs in the Bahamas, a woman says. To them, we are not human. Even though their music sounds like ours. Their people look like ours. Even though we had the same African fathers who probably crossed these same seas together.

Danticat, Edwidge (2004-01-01). Krik? Krak! (p. 13). Soho Press. Kindle Edition. The girl also says they were like slaves many years ago

His neighbor’s son belongs to the youth federation/traitor. Mom want father to save their neighbor by giving them some money. But father has no money left. All the money he has spend one getting his family out from this place. it has happened before all over this country and tonight it will happen again and there is nothing we can do.

Danticat, Edwidge (2004-01-01). Krik? Krak! (p. 15). Soho Press. Kindle Edition.

The pregnant girl give birth. No one has anymore food left. Some worries the new baby may take away their food.

People in the boy’s country is too hopeful with their old president. They sell gasoline.