Theme Of A Wall Of Fire Rising

A Wall of Fire Rising In the short story, A Wall of Fire Rising by Edwidge Danticat shows how the author uses the story cycle narrated by a third person including the thoughts of the characters. In this paper, it will address the characters, setting in which the story took place and the narration the themes in the story include poverty, deprivation, hope, and despair. In A Wall of Fire Rising, there are three main characters throughout the story the mother, father, and their seven-year-old son. This story is about an unwealthy man called Guy whom tires his best effort to provide a decent living for his loving family. Since where he lives isn’t a wealthy place to live and doesn’t have a decent life like he would wish to have. Guy is the …show more content…
She does her best to make everyone happy and stays strong in every situation. She’s obviously the head thinker of the family and wants the best for her family. Lili doesn’t seem to understand why her husband has an obsession with the air balloons and why they mean so much to him. On the other hand, Lili doesn’t like the idea of the air balloons she sees it as an unfortunate end result when she sees what her husband does. Overall, she still happy even if her husband decided to take his own life away. She knows he’ll be happy wherever he is because he always wanted to fly, dream and be free from everything. Lili was somehow afraid to dream like her husband Guy At the end of the story, Guy falls from the air balloon killing himself. The foreman tells Lili that her husband’s eyes are still open and would she like him to shut them or should she do it. “‘No, leave them open,’ Lilli said. ‘My husband, he likes to look at the sky’” (). Lili speaks in fragments, giving her a voice illustrating that her fears of dreaming have been confirmed in this moment, with the death of her husband.
Then there’s Little Guy the son of Lili and Guy the child who chose the play about Dutty Boukman, a Haitian revolutionary who help Haiti gain its independence from France. However, the title of A Wall of Fire Rising comes from one of the lines in the play in which Little Guy is acting. Proud of his accomplishments, dedicated and reveals …show more content…
What he means is that a lot of people have been suffering and they just simply want freedom and be free. When Little Guy asks his mother what is wrong with his father she says, “His heart hurts.” (374) Meaning he wants to live freely, Guy has too many burdens on his shoulders and needs to sacrifices his life to maintain his ordinary life of his own family. However, Guy killing himself and leaving his family behind leaving his family in destitute condition wishing for a better life is an example of what other people from the state of Haiti undergo in their daily