An Interview With Danticat

In this amazing interview that Edwidge Danticat, author of the book the farming of Bones, we may see how her life, experiences and environment highly affect her way of writing. During the whole interview, readers may take her answers and easily connect them to her books. Many aspects that show why Danticat wrote the stories that she wrote are said during this reveling interview.

First of all she starts talking to her relationship with children, As faithful readers know, she has already written two children books in which she represents the stories of those children in Haiti. Danticat expresses that she usually writes about children, because it is amazing to see their experience during a flood or a getaway. The readers immediately reflect this answer in Amabelle’s escape from Haiti after her parents died.

Another important point that was touched during the interview was the importance of her family in her writings. To answer these types of questions, she always told the audience that she picked a person to write about, like for example her niece or cousin. Her family becomes the reason for her to write. This reflects in Amabelle’s desire to escape and to live, because it is not only the need to live that pushed her into escaping but also the love she had for the only family she had left, Sebastien.

Danticat constantly talks about how she writes about the painful struggles that the people of her country have to face. As previously said in another blog entry, Haitian history is very dark although its culture is full of life. It is here where we can see how Danticat uses real life tragedies to write about the people who didn’t have a voice during those times, people that may have live what Amabelle had to live.

In conclusion the reader may see how Danticat uses her experiences and the dark history her country has to write her novels. Not only but also, how she speaks for those who didn’t have a voice during those times, and how her people struggled to protect their beautiful culture and community.