Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Dunticat Speech in MLK day

In Dunticat's speech on Martin Luther King day, the biggest topic she talked was the struggle and survival of the black people in the before, which her topic also correspond with the topic of Martin Luther King day's topic. Even though this topic was very big but she used her own experience and her understanding to tell us what black people experienced in the chaos, especially in Haiti, the reason why she became a writer because she wanted to use her power to raise people's attention on Haiti and make contribution, she wanted to speak other people's experience and told the world. Moreover, she used herself as example to tell us that everyone should contribute to this world, even you're little and just a tiny part in this world, but you need to contribute to this world, because many small powers join together would change surprisingly. That is the reason why she made a lot of speech to illustrate Haiti's condition, nowadays many people pay attention on there which they got many help. Apart from talking struggling of Haitian people, also she talked about immigration, why Haiti and black people wanted to escape from Haiti, not only because of chaos, to escape from the war, but also the Haitians wanted to give their offspring a better future. In Haitian people's eyes, success means the children can immigrate to America because American is stabler and richer than Haitian. This point also helped me to understand Krik Krak a lot, especially helped me in understanding in New York Day women and Caroline's wedding.
I thought her speech was interesting and attractive for me because she did not only talk about Martin Luther King, he is a legend but was far away from us. But as Dunticat,who lived in the same period with us, she experienced a lot of bad things but she did not want to become silence, she decided to become a writer to speak out these stories to the world. For a student who read Krik Krak in the before, from her speech I understood a lot and discovered new aspect of the Haitian revolution. Also, even though it was a speech but I thought she did not talk about big things, so as a listener I believed she expressed her emotion in this speech rather than only reading the draft.

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