People around the world make sacrifices for their friends, families, and other loved ones. In the novel, “Krik? Krak!” by Edwidge Danticat, Danticat writes small stories about the difficulties and obstacles that people have to face. Each story represents a struggle that the Haitian people face in order to pursue happiness and a better life. Danticat is showing how people need to go through hardships in order to provide hope for their present and future families. In the short story “Children of the Sea”, the female narrator's dad sacrifices all the money he has, so that his daughter won’t be taken away into the youth federation. The female narrator says, “papa heard about it. 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” (21). This sacrifice that the father made, hoping that his daughter will have a better life, shows how …show more content…
An example of people making sacrifices for their family is in the short story, “Night Women”. The mother in the story is faced with the obstacle of having to go through prostitution for her son. In the beginning of the story, the mother is giving a narrative about her night life and she says, “The night is the time I dread most in my life. Yet if I am to live, I must depend on it” (71). In the monologue, the mother conveys how she dreads when she sells her body at night, but selling her body is the only way she can live. Furthermore, the mother also hints she will continue to sell her body for her son. At the end of the story, her son asks if he has missed the “angel”, the man who comes at night, and she responds to her son, saying “Darling, the angels have themselves a lifetime to come to us” (75). The mother’s response displays how this “angel” will continue to come, and how she plans to sell her body for the rest of her life in order to provide for her