Children of the Sea

This story, although the context is different, reminds me of the classic Shakespeare play, "Romeo and Juliet." The two stories are similar in many different aspects even though they are about two completely different cultures and time periods.  The two stories are about two people who are in love, and they both have to deal with the fact that they can never be with each other.  In the play, they cannot be with each other because their families are sworn enemies and the fathers won't stand for it.  In the story, the two lovers cannot be together because the man is an enemy of the country and has to flee, while the girl is forced to stay with her strict father who also does not like the man she loves.  In one of the girl's letters she says, "When we see each other again, it will seem like we lost no time." When she says this she shows that she still has hope that they will again be reuinited which sets up the ending to be a tragedy because they in fact will most likely never see each other again.  In, "Romeo and Juliet," Romeo is exiled thus making it impossible for him to be with Juliet just as the man in the story is basically cast out of Haiti forcing him to never see the girl again.  The ending of the two stories turn out slightly differently but they both end tragically in a sense.  Romeo and Juliet end up killing themselves because they cannot be with each other, while the man from Haiti is not said to be dead or alive but he is gone forever while the girl lives on without him.