Edwidge Danticat's novel "Krik? Krak!" reflects Haiti's struggling population from the 1960s to the 1990s. Danticat, born in Haiti, grew up hearing stories about her homeland's past. He learned about the hardships and struggles his elders faced in Haiti. Danticat has composed nine short stories that reveal the unmasking truth of what it meant for previous generations to keep the history of his home country alive. Within the characters of these stories, he depicts the inequality, cruelty, and pain that people have gone through. Even though these nine stories are all different, Danticat relates them to each other sharing the same problem of agony and suffering and the only solution to escape horrible ways was to flee the country or just be another number in the growing number of victims. Inside 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 the cultural and political oppression of the Haitian people. Born in Haiti in 1969, a rather intense and lively time in the country, she grew up 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 aunt and uncle while learning the stories of her elders and Haiti's past history. At the age of twelve, with all the stories she told kept bottled up 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 down the road she slowly transformed into a real, well-spoken writer. In the stories, Danticat defines the optimistic and vibrant characters as the… medium of paper… a figurative language for images, can describe to readers what it was like to live and be in Haiti in these terrible times. Expresses your opinion and helpful facts. In the characters of these stories, he describes the discrimination, brutality and hardship that people have gone through. Even though these nine stories are all dissimilar, Danticat relates them to each other by sharing the same conflict of pain and suffering and the only solution to escape terrible ways was to flee the country or simply be another number in the growing number of victims that took thousands. Inside 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 the cultural and political oppression of the Haitian people.