In Class Writing 1.17

        I think Edwidge Danticat's speech yesterday was one of the kind. Because I read her book Krik? Krak! these days, I felt I understand her speech better than other the MLK speech last year. At first, she get my attention by telling a jock that I read in her book. Then I realize that she is not that unfamiliar to me, and her speech became more reasonable for me.
She did a great speech around the topic of MLK, the rights for black people, and how does these rights appear for the immigrants like her. I found it was interesting that she did not simply talk about all the great thing Dr.King did, but talk about her feeling about the rights. From these, she related her home country Haiti that was ruled by the dictatorship for years. She talked about the impactions from the dictatorship and related it with MLK. That her childhood was deeply inflected by the government'e bloody actions. Even though her speech is not fluent that she sometimes did not explain her idea well at the first time, I felt her speech was very real to me. Different from other speech I heard last year, her speech is more understandable. She used many quotes from Dr.King, and expended her ideas on the quotes. She also recommended some books that influenced her, and has connection to the speech in the speech to us. Furthermore, I was glad to hear that she reads and knows many author as well as artist from China.
For me, her speech is more attractive than last year. I understood her speech better and I felt that she is right to tell people to take actions against injustice things.