Krik Krak Quiz 3 part 2

         What I did in our performance was acting a concerning mother from the New York Day Women meeting Ms. Danticat in her imaginary world struggling to write her stories for Krik Krak. In the dailogue while we started off our conversations right after I sat down, I asked," we're both from Haiti, aren't we?" to give the audience a background information about a connection between us. Which follows up the theme of our performance, the connection between Ms.Danticat and her characters. Hoewever, I continued with another question ended sentence, for example"as you know, right?" to show that we both understood what have been happening in Haiti. Moreover, to make our dialogue more alike a conversation than a normal, awkward interview, I asked her back about her experiences, which also creates an opportunity and transfer from me telling my experience to Ms. Danticat telling her stories. 

        The theme of Krik Krak is showing a connection between all these characters from Haiti and how they're all suffering from a different problem, but possibly caused by some similar factors--- being a women, being in poverty or having dangerous hopes. Also, I believe that each character Ms. Danticat created, is symbolizing a part of her or a story she writes based on her experience back in Haiti. That is the reason why we choose to show the connections and similarities between the character she made and herself in the performance. Ms. Danticat having a dream to become a writer was dangerous and the mother wanting to protect her daughter and her husband's ideas are also dangerous in Haiti. These fear did not continued when they got to America, they considered the country as a sign of new life and safety. Which both of them needed to achieve their goals. Overall, this performance has a purpose of showing Ms. Danticat's own experience versus what she choose to set her characters in her wirting works.