Thursday, January 12, 2017

Krik? Krak! Notes (Night Women, NY Day Women, Between the Pool and the Gardenias)

Night Women
  • Characters
    • Mom
      • 25
      • Prostitute
  • Symbolism of night
    • Dreads the night
    • Needs the night
      • Stars
      • "suitors" like looking at stars
      • Stars in ghost women's hair
  • Son
    • Young? 
    • Doesn't know his mom is a prostitute
  • Father
    • Out of the picture, left a long time ago
    • Dead?
      • Ghost of father
  • Son sleeps in Sunday clothes?
  • Mystical writing style
    • Flows really well
  • Sexual connections
    • Blood spots on his forehead, as if a woman had been kissing him
    • Pleasure in touching yourself
  • Ghost women
    • "woo strollers"
    • Walkers?
    • Babies?
      • Story about women taking babies?
  • Can make herself a goddess
  • Multiple suitors
  • Steady schedule
  • Lies to son
    • They are angels?
    • Everything is a dream
    • His father has been brought back from Heaven
  • Pities the women with day jobs
    • She has the days to herself with her son

NY Day Women



  • Daughter
  •  
    • Works in advertising office in NYC
    • Follows her mother, because she is curious
  • Mother
    • Old fashioned, very polite to others
    • "never shops outside of Brooklyn
    • 59
    • Likes dentures
    • Dad is a taxi driver
    • From Haiti
    • Nanny? 
      • Watches a woman's child while she goes out on a run
    • Is very wary of Shame
      • Why she doesn't tell her daughter
    • Never made it to her daughter's parent-teacher conferences
  • Doesn't respect her mother or think her advice is valid
  • Learns to accept her, by seeing her work for somebody else and make money for the family
Between the Pool and the Gardenias
  • Baby
    • Left on the curb wrapped in a pink blanket
    • "Visions of loveliness" 
    • Is she alive?
      • She doesn't cry
      • "Her head fell like any other infant"
        • I am very sure this baby is not alive
      • Looked the same as she did for three days
      • Had to bathe her to keep down the smell
  • Narrator
    • Women
    • gone through miscarriages
    • Buries the child
  • Relates a lot of things to magic
  • She loves the baby because she represents everything she has lost
  • Gets close with her mother through prayer
  • Lili (from balloon story)
    • Killed herself
    • Godmother of author
    • Son left to go to Miami
  • "That voodoo nonsense that's holding the Haitians back"
    • Her employers are snotty and rich
  • Man sees her burying girl, accuses her of witchcraft
  • Weird recurring theme of dead babies
    • Why
  • This story is very surreal and i ended it very confused

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