Comparison of Grace from Kirk Kruk and Plight of Enrique in “Enrique's Journey”

Grace is the backbone of her family. Both her mother and her sister, Caroline, count on and confide in her, and she negotiates between the customary Haitian standards of her mother and Caroline's American independence. Grace likes to take care of her family and make them proud. She sees the best in persons and trusts them to make their own conclusions, so she's supportive of both Caroline's commitment and her mother's incompetence to shatter her binds to Haiti. Yet Grace's competent discussions disclose her own individual difficulty: she feels ...