KRIK? KRAK! Notes
Chapter One: Children of the Sea
Book jumps right in, no context or backstory just yet, right off the bat very poetic language
Referring to the reader or another unnamed character as ‘you’
A lot of imagery (mountains, smells, red ants)
Symbolism? (white sheets- innocence)
Rape/sexual assault culture
Is this is letter to a man’s past lover?
‘Soldiers not like humans’
Setting- Haiti
War going on where the woman is, man is gone on a boat, maybe fighting abroad?
They are late teens, early twenties
Man has no hope for his country
Man is heading to America
Man is much more educated than the woman, he does not seem happy, his language is very sad/defeatist
Gender roles, woman is oppressed by her society, man got leave
Violence, conflict, government- big themes so far
Butterflies- recurring symbolism
Baby is dead, women is only 15, raped by soldiers
‘Sea has no mercy’ dead baby in it, symbolism of Haiti w/ death
They are in love, but cannot be together... ‘Romeo and Juliet”??? separated by conflict??
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