Sometimes, people can’t picture how poor life can be for others. Where is the hope? Suzette in New York Day women describes one aspect of life in Haiti as “In Haiti when you get hit by a car, the owner of the car gets out and kicks you for getting blood on his bumper” (Page 128). In the novel Krik? Krak!, Danticat is trying to send the message that when humans are abused, killed, and have such a poor quality of life, they find hope in symbols, superstitions, and future generations.
Abuse and a poor quality of life results in humans to obtain hope in symbols. When Josephine’s mom, Manman is in prison, Josephine is alone at home and watches over the Madonna, a valuable belonging to her and her mom. “My Madonna cried. A miniature teardrop traveled down her …show more content…
After Grace gets her passport, her mom, Ma, wants to celebrate Grace’s achievement with bone soup, a common soup in Haitian culture. Ma’s pride in her bone soup is elucidated after seeing an application of Grace’s passport. “We can celebrate with some bone soup, she said. I am making some right now. Ma believed that her bone soup could cure all kinds of ills” (Page 140). Ma clearly finds hope in the soup in the fact that she believes it can cure all kinds of ills. This is a superstition, but yet Ma unmistakably has hope in what the bone soup can accomplish in terms of curing different types of ills. Hope in superstitions are also evident when Grace and Caroline talk about how they have seen their dad in their dreams and how they have always worn black panties. “We had never worn the red panties that Ma had always bought for us over the years to keep our father’s dead spirit away. We had always worn black panties instead, to tell him that he would be welcome to visit us” (Page 152). Hope in superstitions is unmistakable in the fact that Grace and Caroline have always worn black panties, hoping that their father will come back to visit
Abuse and a poor quality of life results in humans to obtain hope in symbols. When Josephine’s mom, Manman is in prison, Josephine is alone at home and watches over the Madonna, a valuable belonging to her and her mom. “My Madonna cried. A miniature teardrop traveled down her …show more content…
After Grace gets her passport, her mom, Ma, wants to celebrate Grace’s achievement with bone soup, a common soup in Haitian culture. Ma’s pride in her bone soup is elucidated after seeing an application of Grace’s passport. “We can celebrate with some bone soup, she said. I am making some right now. Ma believed that her bone soup could cure all kinds of ills” (Page 140). Ma clearly finds hope in the soup in the fact that she believes it can cure all kinds of ills. This is a superstition, but yet Ma unmistakably has hope in what the bone soup can accomplish in terms of curing different types of ills. Hope in superstitions are also evident when Grace and Caroline talk about how they have seen their dad in their dreams and how they have always worn black panties. “We had never worn the red panties that Ma had always bought for us over the years to keep our father’s dead spirit away. We had always worn black panties instead, to tell him that he would be welcome to visit us” (Page 152). Hope in superstitions is unmistakable in the fact that Grace and Caroline have always worn black panties, hoping that their father will come back to visit