“When she was done she would ask you to name each braid after those nine hundred and ninety-nine women who were boiling in your blood” (196). Edwidge Danticat is the author of the book Krik? Krak! which is a collection of fictional stories she put together. She uses the motif of generations throughout the book to convey the ideas of hope and survival in Haitians sacrificing for a better future for their youths. In “Children of the Sea”, the father protects the family in hopes of a brighter future. The mother of the female protagonist walks toward another woman who is being murdered when the father “grabs her neck and pins her to the latrine wall. tomorrow we are going to ville rose, he says. you will not spoil that for the family. you
