Edwidge Danticat's novel "Krik? Krak!" reflects the struggling population of Haiti from the 1960s to the 1990s. Danticat, born in Haiti, grew up hearing stories about her native country's past. She learned about the difficulties and struggles her elders went through in Haiti. Danticat has composed nine short stories that reveal the unmasking truth about what previous generations went through to keep the history of his home country alive. Through the characters in these stories, she describes the inequality, cruelty, and pain that people endured. Even though these nine stories are all different, Danticat connects them to each other by sharing the same problem of agony and suffering and the only solution to escape these horrible ways was to flee the country or simply be another number in the growing number of deaths. In Krik's stories? Krak! Edwidge Danticat uses literary elements such as conflict, figurative language, setting, and imagery to elucidate the theme of suffering, social injustice, and cultural and political oppression of the Haitian people. Born in Haiti in 1969, a rather busy and bustling time in the country, she was raised like any other normal Haitian girl. Four years later, his parents decided to move to the United States in search of a better life. Danticat stayed in Haiti with her uncle and aunt to learn the stories of her elders and the past history of Haiti. At twelve years old, with all the stories told stored inside her, she began to write. She moved to America soon after with her parents and began to make sense of her writing, and years later she slowly became a real, well-spoken writer. In the stories, Danticat defines the characters as optimistic and dynamic as the...... middle of paper ...... m from figurative language to imagery, she can describe to readers what it was like to live and be in Haiti in these terrible times. She expresses her own opinion as well as useful facts. Within the characters in these stories, she describes the discrimination, brutality, and discomfort that people endured. Even though these nine stories are all different, Danticat connects them to each other by sharing the same conflict of pain and suffering and the only solution to escape these terrible ways was to flee the country or simply be another number in the growing death toll that has taken thousands. In Krik's stories? Krak! Edwidge Danticat uses literary elements such as conflict, figurative language, setting and imagery to elucidate the theme of suffering, social injustice and cultural and political oppression of the Haitian people..