![]() People are complex and events are complex. Life is not as black & white as Libete chose to believe at times. She made errors in judgment, but they were usually made because she judged things based only on what she knew at the time. In the midst of this accurate portrayal of life in Cite Soleil, we have Libete and Jak, two children who are forced to live beyond their years. evil" in each Haitian leader - or want-to-be leader, the impact of the earthquake, hurricanes and sickness (HIV, cholera, etc) on the Haitians. French languages, the treatment of women and children, the importance of having the appropriate shoes to be able to attend school, the importance of having "church clothes", even if you have no food to eat, the complexities of the "goodness vs. The political unrest, the use of Creole vs. ![]() (A favorite was Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende). I am sure it had a greater impact on me since it correlated so well with what I have experienced in my own visits to Haiti - and also with what I have read in historical accounts of Haiti, as well as other novels set in Haiti. ![]()
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