Have you ever seen anyone go through a rough patch in their life and feel a tingle in your heart surging and making you feel gratitude? Well that’s appreciation for you, in all its sheer beauty and purity, making you feel appreciative for what you have. Krik Krak displays this analysis through short stories and its characters. In the book, Krik Krak, a series of short stories, the author Danticat utilizes juxtaposition to create unselfish characters that in return create an overall sense of appreciation. Examples that display unselfish characters are a mother, an angry father, and another mother.
Towards the beginning of the short story, Night Women, the mom is constantly working for her son who has no clue about what she does for them to survive. Throughout the story, she is at constant turmoil with trying to hide what she does from her son. “ Should my son wake up, I have prepared my fabrication. One day, he will grow too old to be told that a wandering man is a mirage and that naked flesh is a dream. I will tell him that his father has come, that an…
At the beginning, he reprimands his daughter for disobeying him and talking back to him. “ He called me selfish, and he asked if i hadn’t seen or heard what was happening to man-crazy whores like me… he pushed me against the wall for disrespecting him. he spat in my face” (pg 11). However, when the girl’s life is put on the line , her dad gives up everything he has to save her. “ he went to the post and paid them money, all the money he had. our house in port-au-prince and all the land his father had left him, he gave it all away to save my life” (pg 24). The way he he gave up all for his daughter demonstrates how he isn’t selfish and how he thinks about everyone else. This makes the reader appreciate their life because they probably wouldn’t have to lose everything they own to save someone in their…
