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Muddling through similar issues, “Children of the Sea”:

The “Children of the Seas” is a journal that features two lovers a man and a woman who muddle through similar issues in their thoughts as they encounter different difficult situations. In the journal the woman is in Haiti a place that had been invaded with war whereby the police were discriminating the federation members and supporters. On the other hand, the man who is a presenter of a radio show of the “youth federation” and was running away from the Haiti police who wanted to kill him. In this journal, the man is on a small boat with thirty six other people seeking for refuge at Miami (Mas, 76).

In this journal, the two lovers muddle in the similar issues of suspense, dire expectation and great loneliness filled with hopes and prayerful wishes that their. The man looks on the sea water and the sea images reminds him of his lover whom he does not know how she is. At the same time, the woman also seats down in their house and thinks of her man. On the side of the man, he develops worries that because he is gone and there is no hope of coming back, his lover would be married off to somebody else by her father. On the woman’s side, develops worries that have caused her to contract cabin favor. Out of fear of the police, the woman’s father forces her to throw out the tapes of her lover’s radio show as a way to stay out of danger. The only thing she could have at that moment was her lover’s voice and therefore, she decided to disobey her father. Her fear become even worse when she had that the members of the youth federation had disappeared and her lover was a member of that federation. In this case, it can be seen that on the man’s side, he is worried about her lover whereas on the other side, the woman is also worried about her lover who has disappeared (O’Neill, 35). In this case, the two lovers are sharing similar issues at the same time.

On the man’s side, though he is on his ways to Miami to seek refuge in United States of America, his mind is clued to his radio show. He wishes that another group of youths shows at the microphone and continue doing his radio show when he is absent. He become more comfortable with death; this not because he wants to be like a martyr but because he want to be free of all this. On the other hand, the woman finds out that a group of students were shot by the police in front of the prison because they were protesting for the bodies of the radio show of the man. They had had that the Radio Six were all dead and therefore, wanted their bodies for proper burial. In this case, the woman knew that probably her man was dead. This implies that at the time the man was thinking death, the woman was also thinking of the same thing even though from a different basis. In this context, the two lovers are mingling in the issues that are similar at the same time.

When the author embarks on the man’s side, many of the refugees on the boat become seasick and start vomiting as a result. This is a sort of human suffering. The man does not like the food of the sea and therefore, has become sick of the food of the sea. Furthermore, the boat has a hole that water zips in the sea into the boat from the sea. This is a sort of desperate state. On the side of the woman, her father found the tapes of the radio show in the house and beat her. At this time, the woman is suffering as the man also undergoes suffering the sea. She wishes her father be killed by the police so that she can have freedom to listen to her lover’s voice (O’Neill, 56). As the man wishes that the guards of the US Coast finds their boat soon before they are drawn by the leakage hole on the boat, the woman also wishes that her father finds gasoline so that they can escape from the town. In this case, the two are thinking of getting a safer way out of the trouble that looms around them. Thus the two are thinking of similar issues.

On the side of the woman, every person in the town including the girl’s family has developed great worries as a result of what happened to Madam Roger. The army paid her a visit and interrogated her about activities of her son. She revealed the truth about her son as being a member of the youth federation. As a result, the army got angry and beaten her until she died. At the same time, everyone on the boat which the man was had been sunburned and they were becoming weak and feared for their lives. Even the captained worried that the boat might sink and thus cautioned Celianne not to rock the boat as that was likely to cause more holes on the boat. Therefore at that same time, the two lovers also muddled through similar issues of worried about their safety.

In Haiti, the woman heard rumors that the president was going to come back in the city to make a reclaim of his power. This message raised hope in many people of Haiti because she knew that that was probably going to bring the states that was presently there in the town to an end. The woman on her side, she felt like their hopes were ill conceived because the state was there was not that easy. At the same time, the side of the man, the Celianne loses her hope in life and therefore, throws her dead child in water and follows. At this time, the boat is taking in water and people are in turns trying to empty it. People on the boat including the man her lover starts bickering and loses hopes over surviving. At this time, the two lover featured in this article are having thoughts over the same issues. This is because, on the woman’s side, she has loosed hope that even if the president reclaims his power, things would not be right for them whereas on the side of the man, he has also lost hope that they were not going to survive the water.

The man writes the last journal when the water seeps into the boat and overtakes it and therefore, he ends up drowning (Mas, 76). On the side of the woman in Haiti, she sees a butterfly that was black in color which was a symbol of death and knows that her lover was dead. This is where the journal, “Children of the Sea” ends.

Conclusion:

In the journal, the “Children of the Sea” the author features two lovers a man and a woman both from the town of Haiti who through their daily experiences continue to muddle through similar issues. The woman is in Haiti town, a town that at the time featured by this journal was experiencing military control. Many people who supported the group called the “youth federation” were being discriminated by the army. Therefore, the woman and her family are in a state of fear and but no matter what situation, she cannot get over her lover. On the man’s side, he is on a small boat heading to Miami in US seeking for refuge. Whenever he looks on the sea images, it reminds him of his lover who because he has gone would be married off to another man by her father (Popov, & Popov, 108). Each of the two continues thinking, worrying and hoping for one another at different time. The unique thing is, whatever the woman thinks at a given time is a similar thing that the man would be thinking about. As a result, they muddle in similar issues throughout this journal until the man dies after being drown by water in the boat.

Work Cited:

Popov, Nicolas & Popov, Dragan. Children of the Sea: Exploring the Marine Diversity of the Bahamas and the Caribbean, Washington DC, Macmillan Education, 2000, p. 108

Mas Glenn Sevilla. Children of the sea: &, In the land of the giants: plays, Geneva, UST Pub. House, 2007, p. 76

O’Neill, Eugene. Children Of The Sea: The Story Of The Eyemouth Disaster, California, Dundurn Press Ltd., 2001, p. 57

O’Neill, Eugene. Children of the Sea, a Play in One Act, New York, BiblioBazaar, 2010, p.35