Notes for all the stories.

A short story, “Night Women” a story of a single mother, she's a twenty-five-year-old Haitian prostitute, provides a first-person character of a night in her life as a night woman, and her son who doesn’t know how they live and with what sacrifice his mother brings food to the table. Most of the story is based on observations from the mother-narrator. The woman’s love for her son fuels most of her actions, what defines the story and the reason for what she does to survive. She gets into sexual contact with the man to provide for their living, at great risk of her mentality and physicality. She does everything to hide the truth from her son, in the attempt to preserve his innocence. However, this character stand out from the rest stories, this women committed to her son and loving him, her son reminds her of the motherhood and the commitment that was addressed in front of her to provide the best possible life for her child. All of these actions are acts of love.

Nineteen Thirty-Seven” is a story about narrator Josephine, whose mother is imprisoned as a witch. This story contains a mystical and historical side of life in Haiti. Throughout the novel, Josephine and, Danticat illustrate what used to happen to women with different abilities in Haiti. Josephina's mother was wrongfully accused of killing her friend’s baby; she was condemned as a which and send to prison for a lifetime where the guards treated her with disrespect and all kinds of negative behaviours. The fact that Josephina's mother relates to magic puts society in the position where they see her as a threat.

Children of the sea, a story of two narrators who're sharing their point and perspective with us. The Author does not provide us with their names, the only way we can define who is who is by their forn of writing.  The first narrator who is a man who left Haiti on the bout with other imigrants in order to escape from their government, however, he left the most impornat parts of his life: girlfriend, family, and job. The narrator is telling us the stories that had happened on the boat throughout their adventure, he is telling us how hard it was to survive and what they had to do to stay stable and robust.


The first chapter of the book starts with the story of an unnamed narrator from Haiti, dreaming of his girlfriend. He is travelling on the small boat to Miami, Florida. He is leaving his country because he is wanted by his government All the little details were explained by a second narrator who is a woman on the ship. In my opinion, the theme of the story was justice, the overwhelming injustice of the narrator's situation is highlighted by the events the author chooses to recount in the story. The reason people were demanded to leave the country was their government and the unbearable place to live. The land was terrorised by the dictatorship there was no democracy, people were killed for disagreeing, for speaking publicly, and for trying to protect their families. The people who the narrator was surrounded by were so bent upon survival that for then, the only question of justice was whether they throw the sick and unable people off the boat to save themselves.