" Children Of The Sea" by Danticat - DUE: TUESDAY, 4/4

ANNOUNCEMENTS: 

1.  IF YOU ARE ASKED TO REVISE YOU MUST VISIT THE WRITING CENTER  ( located on the 3rd floor in the LIBRARY) 

1. REVISIONS ARE DUE ONE WEEK FROM RECEIVING YOUR PAPER!

1. IF YOU SEE A ZERO IN BRIGHTSPACE IT IS BECAUSE YOUR PAPER IS A "REDO" AND YOU MUST VISIT THE WRITING CENTER AND HAND IN YOUR FINAL DRAFT FOR A GRADE.

1. WE HAVE CLASS ON APRIL 4TH!!!

*****DATES TO REMEMBER: 

APRIL 6TH - NO CLASS

APRIL 11TH - NO PHYSICAL CLASS - ONLINE DISCUSSION " BRIGHSPACE" BRADY WILL POST NEXT WEEK.

APRIL 13TH - WE RETURN TO CLASS! 

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DUE: TUESDAY , APRIL 4TH - LECTURE AND MINI FISHBOWL - COME PREPARED!

Do a bit of RESEARCH on  Edwidge Danticat and Duvalier !!!

Krik? Krak! 

Written by Edwidge Danicat

 Published by Vintage Contemporaries Random House, 1996 

 SUMMARY When Haitians tell a story, they say "Krik?" and the eager listeners answer "Krak!" In Krik? Krak!, her second novel, Edwidge Danticat establishes herself as the latest heir to that narrative tradition with nine stories that encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of Haitian life. They tell of women who continue loving behind prison walls and in the face of unfathomable loss; of a people who resist the brutality of their rulers through the powers of imagination. The result is a collection that outrages, saddens, and transports the reader with its sheer beauty. 

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READ " Children Of The Sea" 

http://mrscastor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Children-of-the-Sea-1.pdf

According to The Latin & Hiberian Institute :Teaching America Latin America Through History , There is no question that Krik? Krak!’s short stories are gritty. Danticat doesn’t hold back any punches as she gives us a glimpse into the reality of Haitian life through the nine short stories included here. Her prose is both beautiful and simple—it’s part of the genius of her work. The clarity and subtlety of her writing stands in stark contrast to the heaviness of what her stories share. Rarely can an author translate such depths of emotion and paint such lasting images, much less in the span of a short story, as Danticat does. The power of these stories is found in their examination of the lives of ordinary Haitians trying to survive the brutality of both of the Duvalier regimes. Taking place in Port au Prince, the fictional Ville Rose, and New York City, the majority of her stories focus on the lives of individual women. They force us to acknowledge both the plight and the unending strength of these Haitian women. They are a testament both to the survival and the depravity of the human spirit. Poverty, hunger, corruption, and torture are depicted alongside resiliency, faith, dignity, and hope. As we become familiar with Danticat’s characters, moved and pained by the seemingly increasing distance between their hopes and their lived reality, we are forced to realize that it is the actions of other humans that have created such painful experiences. Not all of Danticat’s characters survive; in fact, many do not. But what continues to remain is the spirit of hope, the determination to hold on to what it really means to be Haitian, even after one has escaped to the United States (3). 

AS YOU READ THIS STORY - ASK YOUR SELF a QUESTION.... IS THIS A POWERFUL LOVE STORY?

We will break into groups on Tuesday!

- Class 4/4

Theme of Silence -Professor Brady Mini Lecture

Time period - Author's Message

The Love Story - Students Break into small groups then go back into fishbowl

REMINDER: No class on 4/6 AND 4/11 - WE WILL HAVE A DISCUSSION POSTED ON BRIGHTSPACE on 4/11 -

WE ARE BACK IN CLASS ON 4/13