Dream Haiti by Kamu Brathwaite

 Dream Haiti

    "Find ourselves falling hard on the deck or not being able to pay homage or balance our bills"(177), this line underlines the economic struggle that many people throughout the Caribbean face. They find selves not being able to pay the bills or to eat or to go to mass, it's something that their economic class prohibits them from. Many people do not understand the full effects of poverty and what it does to people and the marks that it leaves on their lives. Often times the bad positions like thievery and position that people find themselves in start with people not having enough money to pay their bills or make ends meet. "Vainly trying to reach judge Thomas and the Supreme Court and Miami"(186), this line shows how to many people in the Caribbean the United States are held as a land of opportunity where people can escape the inequality and poverty of the Caribbean and be on a level playing field in the United States. Where things are often colder and the bad weather is juxtaposed by happiness instead of the good weather of the Caribbean being juxtaposed by poverty. The US still has it's issues but stands out as a beacon of hope for many in the Caribbean who hope to live somewhere with a thriving economy and all people are treated equally in theory. The US is definitely not a perfect nation but is leagues better than many of the places people in the Caribbean live. "Not one of us knew what we were doing there, we should've been somewhere else writing poetry or something(174), this line shows that sometimes people become trapped in a loop when they're not striving and pushing for more. A lot of the reason people leave the Caribbean is because they come to their senses and want a better life for themselves many people there however can not see this, can not see how terrible their lives are and blissfully stay stuck in them.

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