This is a scene includes a blind person who cannot stand and walk, a servant who cannot sit and an old husband and wife who live in big trash bins. They are Hamm’s parents. Anyway the first expression it gave me is dark,poor and bleak.

I don't like this show, people just talk but without a main topic. Also I hate how Hamm speaks to their parents. That attitude is just too rude and licentious. He might thinks their parents brought him to this challenging world. He truly doesn't like his life. he spends time on taking useless stuffs with servant,and he does not even cherish his life. I remember he said “why you don't kill me?” to servant. He just lives without any goal,which can be described as “living for living”. And the servant is a little bit silly. During the show, I was wondering why doesn't he run away from them since he is the only one can walk. I could see he eaglets outside world because he look outside through that window. These two people are kind of weird, they might tortured by this world so much. However, I admired the true love between old man and old woman. I cannot imagine living in such a terrible situation,they are still be together. No one says I gonna leave you. They don't give up each other although life made them suffering. They are much better than Hamm who already lose hope to life. Their relation is extremely solid that nothing can breaks them away. I was so moved when they had a dialogue like: “kiss me.” “We can't.” “Try”
This shows they are still fighting to this cruel world. Try this simple word means too much thing for them, try to live longer, try to stay with me forever. People are never defeated unless they forget how to say try. This part of show really touched and inspired me. Sometimes trying but still get nothing is not a trouble because you are making progress. Stones can be breaked by many drops of water, people will be stronger and stronger as problems solved one by one.

That was a great experience for me. That was my first time enjoying a drama in American theater. And actors did nice jobs that shaping character very well.

There are many good stories in this krik Krak. And most of them have sad endings,thus it can reflect how people living in a bad situation. However I do not think that is what author want to tell us. People are living in a tough lives,they never give up. Some are still chasing their dreams,some are still taking care of their loves. What I want to choose is a story that has a mom and a young boy.
 
“Night Woman” has more than three roles,night woman,young boy and two visitors. And I don’t want to totally based on the original. In the story,young boy seemed to know nothing about how his mom takes care of himself. So mom just silently give him endless love. That is too unfair for her. this boy in my new version should know all of this thing,he found out by accident when Night Woman thinks he is already fell in sleep. And one of the visitor came. Young boy decides not to directly help her mom like suggest her to stop doing. He is a smart boy,he begins to do something for her mom even it looks little. For example washing dishes,buying stuffs from supermarket. And his mom notices,she asks him why? Young boy does not want to tell. Mom knows her son is growing up. Story ends,they live happily. Night woman changed,she find a regular job in an office. She could not get a lot of money,but she feels great because her son is always be her side.

I tired not to make the story depressed,so I changed how it ends. Thus it can express author’s theory clearly.

Samuel Beckett is an famous Irish writer best known for creating radical new dramatic form.
He somehow does not like realism,his works usually don't have connected plots. His style is expressing human's pain.

There are four characters in a dark room
Blind cannot stand
Servant cannot sit
Blind's father has no legs
Blind's mom has no legs
They talks without topics

His works are pretty much sad story.
He thought humors always based on pain.
(We would laugh if someone slip because of banana peel)

Our settings are really interesting. We made the man in the first story meet with Lili and little Guy. However not all of their settings are same with the book, we changed their ages. I am not that young boy who falls in love so deep anymore. Little guy is grown up, he is already in college. Lili began to accept taking care of little guy alone. Everything turns to good,that is what we want to show. Future will be bright,life has to continue. Although Krik Krak includes full of sad stories, author did not mean to express a pessimistic feeling. No one is deserved to get bad luck, as long as you are not giving up. Life will pay back what has been done on you. Our scene shows a good result. They are all in America now, and they all live in their new life now. Our dialogues are not long because that would not be shown a relax environment. We just talk about small stuffs in our life like what coffee is the best. I think this spirit is what author want to tell us,but she did not mention characters' results in the book. Thus,we helped her imagined,expanded a little bit.

Ethan- Little Guy (18) College Student
Zoni- Louis (35) Office Job
Gia- Lili (33) Tailor/Seamstress
Setting- Miami, Florida. Coffee Shop.

Zoni is reading a newspaper as Gia and Ethan walk in.
Gia: “Guy, I don’t want you paying for me this time.”
Ethan: “Nonsense mom, it’s the least I can do for you. Now what are you getting this time?”
Zoni: “I suggest the Caramel Dark Roast, best one in Miami.”
Gia: “Oooh, that does sound good. Thank you for the suggestion…”
Zoni: “Louis.”
Gia: “Lili”
They shake hands
Gia: “Thank you Loius.”
Ethan: to the cashier “Two Caramel Dark Roasts please.”
Gia sits down with Louis.
Gia: “Best coffee in Miami, eh?”
Zoni: “Yeah, I’ve been here long enough to know what’s good and authentic.”
Gia: “Where did you come from then?”
Zoni: “Haiti, moved here 10 years ago.”
Gia: “I thought you were haitian, your accent is depreciating. My son and I moved here last year for his college.”
Ethan: “Graduated second best in my class in high school. Heres your coffee.”
Gia: “Thank you. He really made quite the effort to get us over here. So what do you do for work?”
Zoni: “I work at a radio station, I take the early morning shift for the show.”
Ethan: “That sounds like an interesting job, did it require a lot of experience?”
Zoni: “Yeah, back in Haiti I had my own show on the radio, mostly political rants.”
Gia: “My cousin used to listen to the radio all the time, she absolutely loved it.”
Zoni: “We had a lot of listeners from all over the place.”
Gia: “That’s so fascinating.”
Ethan: “Mom, I should really get you to work; it’s getting late.”
Gia: “Okay, Guy. It was nice talking to you, Loius.”
Zoni: “It was my pleasure. I’m sure I will see you here again.”
Gia: “I believe you will.”
Zoni goes back to reading his newspaper as Gia and Ethan exit.

Ethan- Little Guy (18) College Student
Zoni- Louis (35) Office Job
Gia- Lili (33) Tailor/Seamstress
Setting- Miami, Florida. Coffee Shop.

Gia: “Guy, I don’t want you paying for me this time.”
Ethan: “Nonsense mom, it’s the least I can do for you. Now what are you getting this time?”
Zoni: “I suggest the Caramel Dark Roast, best one in Miami.”
Gia: “Oooh, that does sound good. Thank you for the suggestion…”
Zoni: “Louis.”
They shake hands
Gia: “Thank you Loius.”
Ethan: to the cashier “Two Caramel Dark Roasts please.”
Gia sits down with Louis.
Gia: “Best coffee in Miami, eh?”
Zoni: “Yeah, I’ve been here long enough to know what’s good and authentic.”
Gia: “Where did you come from then?”
Zoni: “Haiti, moved here 10 years ago.”
Gia: “I thought you were haitian, your accent is depreciating. My son and I moved here last year for his college.”
Ethan: “Graduated second best in my class in high school. Heres your coffee.”
Gia: “Thank you. He really made quite the effort to get us over here. So what do you do for work?”
Zoni: “I work at a radio station, I take the early morning shift for the show.”
Ethan: “That sounds like an interesting job, did it require a lot of experience?”
Zoni: “Yeah, back in Haiti I had my own show on the radio, mostly political rants.”
Gia: “My cousin used to listen to the radio all the time, she absolutely loved it.”

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Krik krak is an interesting book,one of the reason is because it has its own special way to tell a story. There are tons of short stories in this book,which seemed to be unrelated. There are different characters, different places and different plots. What I found they are similar is they all share with a same theme that Haiti people at that time were suffering whether for love or life. They could not meet their dreams.

Simply telling what happened is just too boring,and it is also cannot arouse reader’s feeling. By using skills of writing,author made each stories very attractive. I still remember the first sentence in this book grabbed my attention. “They say behind mountains are more mountains...whose names don’t matter to anyone but themselves.” It was a sad but beautiful sentence. What I first thought is It must be a story telling two people get separated. As I predicted,lovers were forced to be apart. If it is just a romantic story I would not be so interested in it because I am pretty sure what would happen between couples. However for this story,I did not lose passion to read. Author dived into two scenes one is boy’s and another is girl’s. They were writing letters to each other. I would like to see how they response to each other when they heard what happened around them. I felt they did really love sharing experiences,but also I could taste the bitter of their missing. I think for showing how they suffering from missing,author purposefully dived into two scenes. They are living in different worlds.

The last story is also stylish. It is about woman’s pain that have no other choice excepting being a woman. However man can be soldiers,doctors or something else. Women have to use ten fingers to work,unless to say that means cooking in kitchen. Women cannot be a writer for unknown reason which is just ridiculous. I think this story somehow reflect to Danticat’s life. She used her accomplishment to prove women can use only five fingers to work,to hold a pen. She put this as the epilogue for a reason. Everyone whether what problems you are facing right now,do not feel frustrated. Tomorrow is yours.    

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KriK Krak includes tons of stories that how are Haiti people living in America. They faced different problems. Night woman had to earn money for her son, so she worked hardly. What is lucky for them is they did not have any conflict. In Carloline’s wedding,mom and daughter held opposite oppinions  on wedding.

Night woman had a tough life,but in some way she was happy. She was happy to wait her son growing up. While she was working, she could see the hope. Like the thing what she is trying to get. She usually sit next to his son and just watched him sleeping. She must feel proud. Rasing her son up became her main goal in her life. All the thing she was doing is for his son. So we could say she was tired and she was happy too. She only had one enemy to face,which is this society. She attempted to get anything she could for her son. However,Day Woman and Carloline’s mom needed to worry about another thing called relationship between mom and daughter.

Thus Night Woman was lucky or her son have not grow up yet that could not make his own decision. In Caroline’s Wedding,what made mom so upset is she was going to marry with someone that is not from Haiti. For her mom’s age people,that is what can not be tolerated. They still kept a old tradition which is already abolished in their next generation. Their children like Carloline as an example,she did not consider if this man from Haiti. They only cared about a feeling. That is what parents so worry about. They felt faint about this kind of conflicts. They were strong that they could never give up making their lives better,but they really cannot calm down when their children did not understand them.

It is easy to see in these three stories(Night Woman,NewYork Day Woman and Carloline’s Wedding), Woman were somewhat not be respected. They did hard work. Day woman was already old,but nobody gave a seat for her. Since they were from Haiti,some people even discriminated them,which gave them too much pain.

I admired immigrant settler who had to carry a whole family with sweat and sometimes cannot be understood by their children.

She talked about something that happened in Haiti. People suffered at that time. She inspired me although I did not experience. We would not know what happen  if she did not write those down. I think that is the charming point as an author.

She is brave. She fights for blacks' rights. That is what inspired me. While Protecting or trying to get something, it is not necessary to use fist or gun. There is another way called writing. Because words can make people feel what you feel.

Night woman

She is 25 years old and have a son who needs her to raise.
Hard life. Earn money is not easy.
Watch her son's sleep

Two people visited
Emmanuel: Doctor
Alexandre: Accordian player

NewYork Day Woman
Daughter wonder what job her mom does in NewYork for so many years. (Follow her mom)
Found out her mom is a babysitter.
Child that her mom takes care is not quiet so her job is heavy and tired.
The way when she got back, she had a new expression to her mom.
(She gave seat to old people)

Soft and gentle are two words that I can think of her tone. Night woman takes care of her son carefully and raise him up as well as possible. The whole story uses a hazy way to explain,which reflects too much work for her makes her out of energy. And her mind allows her thoughts go anywhere. She often changes thinking different stuffs. All these shows she is not on the mood.

When I was reading this book,the first feeling come out from my mind is people living in Haiti were not happy at that time. Something constraints them, they repeat the same stuffs that has already done so many times yesterday. They somehow hate right now life,they need a change. “Children of the sea” and “A wall of Fire Rising” are good examples.

The most hurt pain between lovers is not they could not stay forever,but they cannot even miss the days they are not apart. In the first story, girl’s father used any ways he can think of to stop his daughter’s love. The boy is already gone,but that was just not enough to father. What father want to do is completely destroy everything boy left. Girl has no freedom to keep those music tapes,Girl has no freedom to miss him. That is unfair for her. Any love exist in this world should be supported or blessed by others because that is such a pure thing. However,society help most of lovers decide which love will last,which love is doomed to over. Society constraints people too tight. I believe we all have a Eldorado in our mind. At that place, we can do anything we love to do, we do without worry. Yes,freedom is the right label. We are brave enough to do what we want, we are free ample to love someone.

And in the third story,there are two big conflicts. One is in the family and another is in his own mind. Guy and Lili have different opinions about their son’s life. What can be ensure is they both love their so much. They both hope their son will have a bright future. Because right now,they are poor. This society force this family has to consider how to continue life. Also,Guy struggled a lot too. He has a dream that ride a hot air balloon and float to anywhere as long as it is a beautiful place. However he has duty to carry this family. This main factor stops his dream.

Same as our real lives, too many factors constrains us. In fact,we do not really have freedom. We might be physically en

Author mom died but actually not really
Went to that city's prison.
Mom was treated badly in the prison(poor and thin)
Massacre River
Jacqueline told author mom dead.

He is going to act in a play.
Sugar mill---saw a big hot air balloon---decide to raise
Father got a job in sugar mill

In a second story, author's mom dead. However as a main character in this story, her name even does not mentioned. Author might thinks it is not necessary to say the name. The most important thing is remembering mom loves her very much. Author missed days mom took care of her gently,just like the first quote. Love is like a drizzle. At that time, author thought it was just simple true love, so she didn't pay too much attention on that. One day, that kind of love is lost. Although author still feel the love from mom,this feeling of being love becomes heavy. Mom in that suffered situation still loves and misses daughter. Author could not carry this love, that is the meaning in the first quote. Love drown you.