Krik?Krak! Post 2

I believe that throughout Krik? Krak! The sense of hope vs. hopelessness is present.  I feel like hope is a dangerous thing sometimes. I feel like hope is dangerous because it is never guaranteed. No matter how hard you try you cannot change fate, whether it is how your son will grow up, such as in “A wall of fire rising” or hoping your child’s innocence is not lost, like in “Children of the Sea”. I think hope is the most prevalent theme in Krik?Krak! In each of the short stories Danticat gives an ending that is hopeful or hopeless. Depending how you read the story and interpret the characters each story means a different thing for everyone. The one thing that all the stories have in common is all narrarators are young haittian women coming from essentially nothing. I feel like all these women have hope that things will eventually get better but in the end a feeling of hopelessness overcomes them all.  This hope is a coping mechanism in all the stories. Like in life hope is always a way to escape. Hope is creating a better reality for yourself. Being so hopeful gives you the illusion that eventually everything, will one day get better. I feel like in the stories parents try to maintain their children’s innocence so they would always have hope. Looking at the reality of your life is difficult especially when you come from nothing, and it is very easy to escape reality and tell yourself that one day things will change. I feel once children’s innocence is lost, so is all hope, for not only the child but also the parent.