Epilogue: Women Like Us

This is the last chapter/story in the book. This story used second point of view, it is all "you" in the story. However, we can easily tell that the narrator is Edwidge Danticat herself. She tells about her own story in the last one. She talks about her mother, the misunderstanding and the disagreement about her major and career choice. Her mother was really disappointed about her job and the explanation of that writing will be a her life's work. Because back in Haiti, woman writers will be raped and killed, and man writers will be tortured and killed. Only politicians can writes in Haiti, but they will always end up in prison. Her mother wants her to learn nurse, because she thinks their family need one. However, Edwidge Danticat argued that she has to write the truth for those women and speak for them by using her pen.