Haiti’s political climate during the settings of Krik? Krak! Was quite rough. There were very difficult circumstances involving the government and politics that the many characters in each story faced. During this time, the government seemed to be a very big deal whereas anyone who disagreed with the ideas of those in charge was killed, for example, the many members of the Youth Federation in the story “Children of the Sea”. In “Nineteen Thirty-Seven” the story of a woman who was imprisoned, due to being accused as a witch, it is explained that many people were killed by a river connecting Haiti with the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic was a big part of Haiti’s harsh political climate because the fight for land during this time was
