Sodanie Oum
10th Grade Summer Reading Assignments
Book 2: Krik Krak Prompt 1a: The political climate Danticat grew up in was corrupted, disorganized, and had complicated politics, generally negative. The economy thrived on crime and where many people were in poverty due the corrupt government and some of the citizens with "immoral" intentions might have never even gotten punished for their crimes such as the rapists in Danticats ' stories, where the rapists were macoutes; people of a militia and we assume it was a regular thing for their own militia to terrorize their own people. Haiti had a tortured past which greatly influenced Danticats ' political climate. It was a harsh period in time and it severely shaped Danticats ' life, obviously …show more content…
When Josephine visits her mother in prison, she never says anything, but acknowledges the fact that she 's going to die there. When Josephine’s mother dies, Jacqueline,another witch, takes Josephine to see her mother 's body burned. The mother is content with the fact that she 's in prison and was in prison for having wings and overall being a witch, which is more than enough reason for having to be feared. But society fears women having so much power and independence so they quickly had her arrested but maybe she had wings in a spiritual sense? And not a literal sense where the government also feared that and jailed her. Either way she had power and that scared society, and when she died that benefitted the people in power, the government (maybe?) by getting rid of one more strong willed …show more content…
Lamort was belittled by her grandmother and blamed her for her mother’s death and disapproved of her behavior. She tries to please her grandmother by changing herself and sees herself as worthless when she can 't get her grandmother 's approval. She looks up to Emilie, and felt important when she could help her, even when it involved going out past curfew and hiding from her grandmother. Lamort should 've been feared when she courageously accepts the violent, dangerous state of her world and come up with excuses and sweet talks her way with Toto, the soldier who stops them when they try to go to the churchyard, to protect Emilie from him. Where as Emilie was feared as an independent and strong willed woman and when she did nothing but taunt Toto when he threatened her and showed no fear. Lamort should 've been feared since she had so much courage. Overall this fear didn 't benefit anybody, but in the end when Emilie compliments Lamort on her courage for standing up to Toto it helps her overcome her fear of her grandmother 's disapproval and found her own
10th Grade Summer Reading Assignments
Book 2: Krik Krak Prompt 1a: The political climate Danticat grew up in was corrupted, disorganized, and had complicated politics, generally negative. The economy thrived on crime and where many people were in poverty due the corrupt government and some of the citizens with "immoral" intentions might have never even gotten punished for their crimes such as the rapists in Danticats ' stories, where the rapists were macoutes; people of a militia and we assume it was a regular thing for their own militia to terrorize their own people. Haiti had a tortured past which greatly influenced Danticats ' political climate. It was a harsh period in time and it severely shaped Danticats ' life, obviously …show more content…
When Josephine visits her mother in prison, she never says anything, but acknowledges the fact that she 's going to die there. When Josephine’s mother dies, Jacqueline,another witch, takes Josephine to see her mother 's body burned. The mother is content with the fact that she 's in prison and was in prison for having wings and overall being a witch, which is more than enough reason for having to be feared. But society fears women having so much power and independence so they quickly had her arrested but maybe she had wings in a spiritual sense? And not a literal sense where the government also feared that and jailed her. Either way she had power and that scared society, and when she died that benefitted the people in power, the government (maybe?) by getting rid of one more strong willed …show more content…
Lamort was belittled by her grandmother and blamed her for her mother’s death and disapproved of her behavior. She tries to please her grandmother by changing herself and sees herself as worthless when she can 't get her grandmother 's approval. She looks up to Emilie, and felt important when she could help her, even when it involved going out past curfew and hiding from her grandmother. Lamort should 've been feared when she courageously accepts the violent, dangerous state of her world and come up with excuses and sweet talks her way with Toto, the soldier who stops them when they try to go to the churchyard, to protect Emilie from him. Where as Emilie was feared as an independent and strong willed woman and when she did nothing but taunt Toto when he threatened her and showed no fear. Lamort should 've been feared since she had so much courage. Overall this fear didn 't benefit anybody, but in the end when Emilie compliments Lamort on her courage for standing up to Toto it helps her overcome her fear of her grandmother 's disapproval and found her own