Children of the Sea

             For starters, the new section that we are doing has been my favorite so far. Short stories cannot have a boring build up because they are meant to catch the reader’s eye from beginning to end and I felt that Children of the Sea by Edwidge Dannicat did that exact thing. Dannicat really painted a picture in my head about what was happening. The concise, but vivid details- as opposed to long, insignificant details that are sometimes seen in regular novels- makes Children of the Sea a better read. In addition, the unique style she used to write the story in journals helped portray the lives of both people through their thoughts, and ideas, allowed us to understand how they felt from one another, and gave us information about the experiences that they had to undergo. Lastly, one of the main reasons I enjoyed this short story was because it was half non-fiction, which put more emotion into the story and kept the reader interested.