Comparing Peculiar Benefits By Roxane Gay And Krik

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In the Article “Peculiar Benefits” by Roxane Gay and the book Krik? Krak! I am a krunk! Edwidge Dandicat uses different views of privilege to show the difference between wanting and having privilege. The character Princesse in Krik? Krak! I am a krunk! This is an example of someone in Haiti who has some form of privilege. Education is a form of privilege that the princess has access to. As said in Krik. Krak!, “Princesse had met a few of them through the teachers at her school”(Page 111). Getting to go to school is a privilege in Haiti. You get above everyone in Haiti when you have an education, because not everyone has one. Now as we look at the article “Peculiar Benefits” by Roxane Gay. She is grateful for education as it's a privilege not