In Class Writing 1.5

"I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles"

This reminds me Guy in the third story A Wall of Fire Rising. Guy lived with his wife Lili and son Little Guy, but the family was not very wealth. Guy got a job in the sugar mill one day, and there is a bog ballon in the sugar mill. Guy talked about how he want to fly with the ballon and started a new life in somewhere else. At the end, Guy followed his will, flying the ballon and jump from the sky. In my opinion, Guy has his dreams, as a small person in the vile, he has such a big dream about going to other place and staring a new life. But the reality is very crustal for, he has a family to take care own, and he had no jobs for several mouths. When I reading the quote, I think about the author try to let her readers know about what Haitian people faced in their lives. There are poor people who had extraordinary dreams to chase but they could not because of the mass of the big environment.

"We need literature because we wouldn't fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human"

In the first story, the boy keep writing his journal to the girl from beginning to the end. Even when he know the letters will not deliver to the girl, he still keep writing. I think for a person who struck in a small  ship in the middle of the ocean, the literature has more meaning than recording words. The boy uses literature as a company of him, he sees his letters as the girl his loves. In all those long days on the sea, he writes the letters. Because of this, he records all the things happen to him, he know more about himself. Lastly, because of the literature, he does not lose his mind at the end and be a fully human.