Children of the Sea by Roger Michell Essay

In Children of the ocean, on that point is a lot of pain, suffering, mischief, and both(prenominal)times happiness. end-to-end the write up there are numerous internal and external conflicts. It has to do with a lot of mixed emotions and full of lessons learned, where a son and a girl in love write letters to for each one other. The main conflict in this story has to do with the militias and the receiving set sextet juvenility Group. The Militias were people or soldiers who were trying to dumbfound over Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Radio Six Youth Group was young adults or teenagers who went against the Militias and expressed themselves through the wireless. The boy in one of his letters he claimed that It was nice to acquire a radio alike(p) that for a while, where we could talk approximately what we wanted from government, what we wanted for the future of our country. He said this because he believed that the Macoutes were dirty flirt with people. Therefore the Macout es did not like this and so they would execute anyone who was against them.In addition to this conflict, Madan Roger Port-Au-Prince resident, the girls neighbor, had a son that was part of the Radio Six Youth Group. One day the Macoutes overcomeed him and lonesome(prenominal) returned his head to Madan Roger. Madan Roger was in so a lot agony, she was also very furious with those contaminating Macoutes and so she started yelling mean and stringent things to them. The Macoutes had this thing to barge into peoples homes and make the mother and son, and the begin and daughters have sexual intercourse. One afternoon the Macoutes went into Madan Rogers put up looking for her son, but Madan Roger started yelling and howler You already killed him, do you want to kill him twice? Go ahead and kill me you already did the worst thing mathematical to me, kill meThey started to pound on her, you preempt hear the guns coming down on her head, and Manman (The Mother) whispered to Papa ( The Father) You poopt just let them kill her, go and give them some money like you did for your daughter Papa said that the notwithstanding money he has left is to plump them out of Port-Au-Prince tomorrow morning. He trickt just give up on theyre future that he has planned out for them in Ville Rose. The abutting day after Madan Roger was beat to death, the girl, her father and mother were finally going to give-up the ghost Port-Au-Prince. Papa did not want to go in Madan Rogers house and check on her before we left he belief the soldiers might still be in there.The girl and her mother were very sorry about what happened to their neighbor, and so to show how practically they care they both wrapped faint cloth around their heads. Reading Children of the Sea made me realize that not simply I have been through some difficulties in life, but so can other people and maybe fifty-fifty worse. Throughout this story, I learned to assess more people and things in life, that you should not take anything for granted and that we should be grateful for who and what we have in our lives each and everyday.