Dream Haiti

 "Dream Haiti", is a short story that tries to tell the story of a dream of a refugee. He dreams of his journey to the U.S.A.. he dreams of being imprisoned, even though he is imprisoned basically to himself, and the trip is only a one way journey with no opportunity to turn back. I found that the story shows the same Caribbean idea of hopelessness that we have read about multiple times before. While he was floating along, he escapes his land of culture, but leaves behind his sense of being stuck in post-colonial Haiti. However, he, himself is stuck and dreams give a false senes of reality. He is stuck floating along in the sea, and the waves also show a sense of being cast and stuck, flowing along with what the world throws his way.

In addition, I find it interesting how the font and vocabulary was used to tell the story of an insane dream. The typeface is used to show an edginess and madness that the narrator is feeling in his dream. Being chained up as a refugee can not be done justice by regular fonts, so I find this interesting font to be a good way of showing emotion. In addition the use of words such as, "wd". It shows his heritage and it shows a more free almost diary like writing style. I enjoyed this changeup from what I have been reading lately, it shows a different method of describing emotion. Rather than using vocabulary like normal reading material, the author uses the visual text to describe the emotions.

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