In both Edwidge Danticat's Krik? Krak! and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies, it is clear to see aspects of the short story cycle through the recurring theme of loneliness in characters due to the accentuation of settings and the lowering of their self esteem. Furthermore, in Krik? Krak?, this pattern is connected throughout several of the short stories in the book, including “A Wall of Fire Rising” and “Between the Pool and the Gardenias”. Each story features details that bring the reader to conclude that the characters live tough lives filled with poverty. This then leads them to having their self esteems lowered due to the lack of basic essential needs and finally leads to loneliness from a lack of human connections. Similarly, in…show more content… Krak!. To start, in the short story “Between the Pool and the Gardenias” this standard is shown when the main character Marie finds a baby in the street of her town in Haiti. “She probably belonged to someone, but the street had no one in it” (Danticat, 92). This baby who Marie names Rose was just left out in the street to die, which as an American is viewed as an inhumane and a horrible task to do. Maslow’s Heiredity of basic needs states that humans need food, water, and shelter before anything else. However, since the Haitian community is so poor and deprived of these basic needs, it explains why whoever had Rose abandoned her. The story exemplifies the fact that the action of leaving one’s baby in Haiti is not uncommon. Whoever left Rose was most likely deprived of these basic needs, and could not care for a baby because they could barely even care for themselves. When the quote states, “the street had no one in it”, it indicates that the person who left Rose left her in a hurry and that there was no one around who would save this baby before she died. To continue, Marie is a woman who has had many deaths and unfortunate events occur in her family. “There was my great grandmother Eveline who was killed by Dominican soldiers at the Massacre River. My grandmother Delfie who died with a bald head in prison, because God had given her wings. My godmother Lili who killed herself in old
