Through Claude Bernard Sérant’s The Kite War, the young critic Judline Lovens Jeune highlights a youth story where children’s fight for their freedom echoes the history of Haiti.
Through Claude Bernard Sérant’s The Kite War, the young critic Judline Lovens Jeune highlights a youth story where children’s fight for their freedom echoes the history of Haiti. Between solidarity, courage, and resistance, the work stands out as a reading that carries values and collective consciousness. The Kite War, written by Claude Bernard Sérant and published in June 2015, is a book that the author specially dedicates to the children of Haiti who, tomorrow, will have to continue the work aimed at making society more humane. Reissued by Maison d’Édition Toussaint, this youth book, which will be available on June 4 at Livres en Folie, tells the story of a group of children from Port-au-Prince who are victims of the torment imposed by the ‘grandou’ of Thompson, a jealous and angry teenager. He transforms the airspace where the children flew their kites into a real battlefield.not hesitating to destroy the others’ “kap” with his “grandou” adorned with razor blades.
However, the children refuse to remain victims. They choose to unite in order to reclaim their right to play, their right to fly their kites in the blue sky of the Easter season. Of course, fear nearly got the better of them, but the desire to fully enjoy their freedom proved stronger.
