As a result from Haiti’s political history, a large percentage of Haiti’s populations were forced to live in poverty and most likely unable to come out of it. In the short story, “The Wall of Fire Rising,” Guy, Little Guy, and Lili—a poor Haitian family—lives in poverty and they’re struggling to maintain hope. They family gets excited when Little Guy gets to play a revolutionary character in his school play, and when Guy gets extra work cleaning bathrooms in a mill. Even so, Guy sees no point in life, and he doesn’t want to be remembered like the poor, struggling man his father was. Throughout the story, Little Guy practices his script for his school play. “The boy[Little Guy] was sitting in the front of the shack on an old plastic bucket
