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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.