Create Dangerously And Make Your Home Among Strangers

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Create Dangerously by Edwidge Danticat and Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capo-Crucet
Create Dangerously by Edwidge Danticat is a reflection on art and exile of an artist from a nation that experiences a crisis. Danticat combines both memoir and essay to give stories of the artist and herself in despite and horrors who become alien in America. The novel gives a narration of various characters who strive against all the awkward moments and odds to show that humankind is equal irrespective of the differences in nations as everybody faces problems such as natural disasters, atrocities such as mutilation and torture, and suffering from diseases among others. The novel Create Dangerously has the concept of blending personal anecdote, history, and reflection on the essence of responsibility that is applicable in unwinding and analyzing Make Your Home Among Strangers.
Danticat uses a personal anecdote to confront the various challenges as a Haitian writer. For example, the narrator elaborates on Diaspora conflict in a painful way especially for the writers and artists who reside in other places or nations outside Haiti. However, the artists use the Haitian materials to express their feelings. An essay "Walk Straight" from the novel Create Dangerously, Danticat tries to recall a man saying, "Why was she taught to read and write?" "That is not using. The things she writes, they are not used." (Danticat 32) Besides, cases she has been referred to as a parasite who only exploits her culture for money and fame (Danticat 32). Therefore, Danticat responds to the criticism by delivering a positive contribution of an immigrant such as self-censorship and silence. She goes ahead and gives a personal description as being anguished by a sense of guilt. Thus, her burden of responsibility and indebtedness becomes a personal pain and dreadful experience. Besides, her escape from her mother country even is a worse experience that brings about survivor guilt. The same concept of personal anecdote in the narration of Diaspora conflict helps in interpreting the novel Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capo-Crucet. The character Lizet Ramirez applies for “El” and gets a chance to join the new college. However, her family back home in Cuba feels that she is a betrayer and her mother talks in cold anger “Her whole life is gonna be all about her from now on, right, Lizet?” (Crucet 10) After the first school break, Lizet returns home as a Cuban refugee. He finds his mother dead. As a result, the character starts to view her family in a different and dismay. She sees her mother as “tacky-looking woman, a Cuban lady…” (Crucet 10) However, she never liked the sudden change in her ability to see her mother differently. Therefore, the character feels isolated from her history. In a nutshell, even if the generational differences may occur with no unbridgeable means, the narrator can reveal the character as a determined person who feels bound to the family and community irrespective of the perception of the Cuban people (Crucet 10).
On a separate note, Danticat personal narration concept reveals the idea of an immigrant caught between the two cultures and striving aga...