Notes of "children of the sea"

Character list

Male Narrator: He loves the female narrator. He doesn't want to see young kids and other people dying around him. He feels suffering by seeing that. In the end he died.

Female Narrator: She wants to see the male narrator. She believes that she and the male narrator will meet in one day. She doesn't like the way her father opposing her love.

Papa: Father of the female narrator, he pays macoutes to protect his family. Actually he doesn't want to opposing his daughter's love but he has to. Because he think if female and male narrator fall in love they will be killed by macoutes. Papa just wants to protect his family from danger.

Pregnant women(Celianne): she is raped by her brother. Macoutes also force her brother to rape her mom. After the baby dies, she suicide.

Manman: Female narrator's mother. She believes love, but she feels shocked and helpless when she knows that her neighbors was murdered

Roger: neighbors of female narrator, her son was killed by macoutes.

Summarize

Male narrator and female narrator fall in love. After her dad finds out that the male narrator is one of the members that against the macoutes, he begins to oppose his daughter's love. Because their neighbor's son is also one of the members who against the macoutes. Male narrator begins to run away from Haiti, so he goes on a boat. During the navigation the male narrator sees many people died. He feels suffering and sad. On the boat there's a pregnant women, after her baby dies, she also suicide. In the end there's a black butterfly land near to the female narrator. In the beginning manman says that bright butterfly brings happy and black brings death. It means that male narrator dead in the end of the story. In the end the female narrator understand her the reason why her dad oppposes her love.

Personal Response

In that time period, people was controlled by papa doc, papa doc is a dictator. He lets macoutes to attack or kill people who against his power. Female narrator's neighbor's son and Male narrator are one of member of youth federation that against papa doc. People at that time leave in fear and hopeless. The author use two narrators to represent all the citizens who are protesters or the people live in hopeless and fear. These narrators don't have name so they can represent everyone in the Haiti society.