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why did Guy decide to jump out of the ballon in your opinion? Do you think that night woman is a sequel to a wall of fire rising? why? What does the Madonna represent and why was it so important. How is the theme escape portrayed in a wall of fire rising

The narrator of this was the author of the book. it is told from second person perspective It is about her struggle of becoming a writer which was very hard for her Her family didnt want her to become a writer they felt it was dangerous it was permanent so if you said something bad then it was there forever if you said something bad about the goverment you could be thrown in jail they grew up in time were that would happen to people the parents wanted her to become a nurse  it is better paying they were dissopointed about her wanteding to write she links braiding hair with writing

Post a short reflection on your blog -- what did Tuesday's in-class performances reveal about the characters and stories presented? What was interesting and what did it make you think about or realize? 250-300 words    so so For the in-class Performances, I played Guy who was already dead but was an angel and he was coming to visit the night women who Nia played because we connected the stories night women and (Blank) because they are extremely similar.  In Night women it is a story of a single mother taking care of her son and in (blank) the father dies and leaves the mother to take care of the son. Ivan and Jacob Both played night women in their performance. Ivan used a lot of hand gestures .  while Jacobs character talked a lot about herself. Cassity got into a argument with David and denny because she is only a night woman so she can pay for her son's education. Lastly Leslie and Jasmine showed the hardship of being a night woman. They showed how even ...

carolines wedding themes identity jealousy independence opportunity superstitions dreams The mother goes to jail after Caroline is born The mother is upset that with who the daughter is marring  she is marrying the character Eric who is not of Haitian decent which is why the mother is angry Caroline dreams about the father and how he brought the family to America The mother makes bones soup  trying to end the marriage The mother asks Grace to burn her belongings grace gets her passport because she was born in Haiti and caroline was born in America  grace visits the fathers grave because he died of cancer to tell him about the wedding

So so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so KK Blog Post 3 -- Compare Night Women to New York Day Women. What new opportunities do women have in the US vs. Haiti? What experiences are similar in both stories/places? What does this suggest about gender roles? 500 words. They stories of Night women and New York day women have some similarities but at the same time they have many differences as well.  The main similarity is that it is a middle aged women trying to support the family she has left. In Night women she was working for her son while in new york day women it was for the mother.  This also has some differences like what they do for work. In Night Women she has a low paying job and in New York Day Women she has a higher paying job and also has a college degree. One more similarity between the two stories is that one of the characters in each story is hiding something from the other character.  In Night women ...

 New York day women first story not in hatai  takes place in new york it starts with the character Suzette The mother and daughter have a good relationship  the mother is more traditional while the daughter was not she was never given a name just known as mother the daughter has a good job and a college degree  The mother and daughter never really interact.   plot she sees her mother who lives in Brooklyn she begins to follow her mother shes sees a women leave her son with  the mother turns out the mother is that boys nanny the story ends with suzette wondering whather mother would say if se noticed her second narator (Bold writing) is the mother The mother never goes to the parent teacher meetings she is working/ ashamed because she doesnt have nice clothes or education she tells that daughter that she is perfect so what can they tell her

Why did you choose apricots to write about?  What was the reason did you just think of it randomly or did u plan on writing about them? What is your motivation for writing poems and what is your prosses of finding a topic for them?

Starts with one character named marie finding a dead baby in a street.  she starts telling the dead baby all these things that are bad in her life her miscarage she slept with the pool cleaner her cheating husband the dead baby starts to rot and smell which she trys to cover up with perfume she burries the baby   The pool cleanrer calls the police on her for it

Post some reading notes on your blog, specifically 1) identifying characters, 2) summarizing the plot, and 3) offering some personal response/ideas about the story story 1 characters  two with no names and were the narrators Summary It was about two characters letters to each other.  One character had field Haiti.  then he meets a female when he was leaving and he baby dies so she throws it overboard and goes over too.  the other character is angry because her father doesn't approve of who she is in love with.  Then it goes on to her learning her father gave up everything to protect her from a gang.  story 2 summary Josephine is telling the story starts with  Josephine going to visit her mom in prison her mom is in jail for practicing voodoo and for supposedly having wings of fire. the wings of fire are just from when she was escaping from the massacre and when she got out of the water she had  Josephine then meets someone nam...

KK Blog Post 2 due. Choose one character from the first 4 stories and do a character analysis using Uta Hagen's 9 questions. 500 words The character Guy from the third story.  The story is taking place in the early 1900s in Haiti where he lives.  Most of the scene takes place in their house which is very small because they are very poor.   He is the father of the family with his son Little Guy and wife Lili. He does not really have a job but works when he is asked but he is looking for a job.  His son Little Guy gets one of the lead roles in his play and the mother gets very excited and happy which makes Guy jealous. She starts to give him all the attention because of the play.  This is why Guy doesn't like when Little Guy recites his lines in front of him and he makes him stop. Then he goes on to talk about the hot air balloon from where he works. He talks a lot about the hot air balloon he goes on and talks about how he wants to steal the hot air ...

The theme of escape is present in both nineteen thirty-seven and a wall of fire rising.  In both of these stories escape is one of the main themes.  In the first story it is shown through the mother shown through the mother who is put in jail for having "wings of fire".  These wings of fire are being used to represent when she escaped the river during the massacre she was covered in blood and it makes it look like she has wings of fire which she was believed to have used to escape the massacre.  Then the idea of flying is the mothers escape from her suffering in jail where she was beaten, starved, and tortured. she uses this to show that the only true escape for the mother was death.  Then in the second story, the theme of escape is symbolized by the hot air balloon.  The hot air ballon is Guy's escape from his reality.  it is something that makes him happy.  One day he eventully steals it and...

Read the next 2 stories in KK. Write a blog post in response to the first 3 stories. Choose a theme that you see to be common in all 3 and explore what Danticat is showing us or asking us to think about this theme. Analyze 2 direct quotes. 500 words The first two stories Of Krik Krak are stories of Told from the perspective of a narrator, the first one gives no names of the narrators but the second is told from the perspective of a character named Josephine.  While the third is told about a family. The first story is about a couple who have to be separated to stay alive and be safe. The male has to leave the island because he is being hunted by the government for his radio channel.  The female character has to leave him because the government will try to find her to use her to get to him. Her father makes her never see him again because he knows that this will happen. Then the second story is told by Josephine and this is about her mother and their past. Her mother and ...