Kirk Krak first Three Stories

There are many common themes that are in the first three stories of Krik Krack but one theme seemed to stand out. The theme is that in every story the person that somebody loves the most dies. In the first story, the male narrator is loved deeply by the female narrator. At the end of the story we can assume that he dies because the boat sank. In the second story, the mother of the girl dies in prison because she was thought to have wings of fire. In the third story, the father in the family jumps out of the hot air ballon that he always talked about flying. Something that all of the characters had in common was that they loved their family or spouse a lot. I think that these stories are trying to show that many people who loved their families died because of the government or because they saw no hope for their lives. In the third story the father of the family had always wanted to be more in life than what he was. He says to his life that he never wanted to be like his father who was very poor. He can't find very good work and so he is ashamed about this. I think that he jumped after he flew the hot air balloon because he felt like he reached his peak in life and decided that he was done. "I know because I remember my father, who was a very poor struggling man all his life. I remember him as a man that I would never want to be." He says this because he knows that he has become his father in that he is poor and is struggling to live. In the second story, the girl is going to the prison to see her mother. She was arrested for being accused of having wings of fire. The reason for this is because she was covered in blood when she was escaping the Spanish side of the island and she jumped across the river. Every day she brings her daughter to the river and they put their hands in it to remember their mothers that were cut up and thrown into the river. This is why the mother was arrested. So the girl is visiting her in prison and she brings her food and a Madonna which is a porcelain doll that drops tears. In the beggining of the story, it dropped one tear. "When I was the tear I thought, surely, that my mother had died." This is an important quote because he mother dies at the end of the story. It is also important because it is like the butterfly's in the first story where the colorful butterfly bring good news and the black butterfly's bring bad news. When the Madonna cries then somebody has died. As I was reading this part I knew that her mother would die eventually because I could feel it in the writing that the girl was depressed and so was the mother because they knew that they would not be able to live with each other ever again. All of these stories are similar in that somebody just decided to give up on life because they see no hope of any way out of their situation.