In the story's woman's life in Haiti was horrible. They didn't have the ability to work in the same job places that men could work at, and because of this mostly had to stay home and care for the children and figure out what would be for dinner. Thus, making the woman give into the stereotype  that that's all they are good for. There husbands if there's were alive, since a lot of the either died while working, or committed suicide. Anyway, the men mostly worked in factories where the working conditions where awful. And they would only be making like $1 a day. So if you can image how living off of $1 a day would be like. It would be almost impossible because everything is so expensive here.  Then to connect it back to real life and how it's very similar. And because it's so similar I think that it's great to see how well the author portrayed life in a place that's so foreign to people in America. Like for example I never knew that Haiti was that back, I kinda though as it of a vacation spot where people can bring there family and have a good time. I couldn't have been more wrong. The world that they live in is so remote to the one that we have. And it makes you think of all the things we take for granted and we should be more thankful for what we have because someone can have I a lot worse. Also another thing that happens in the stories is that all these woman have such a strong bond with there children you can see it in a number of stories for example in "Night Woman" the mother made sure to never have here work interfere with here son because she never wants him to find out how she is providing for him. Also in the story about the family in Haiti and the father was fixed on getting a balloon and flying away from all of his problems. Anyway in that one the mom wanted here son to stay and school and get good grades of that he could maybe make it into a University and make it out of this place and poverty. However thats a lot of pressure to put on a 8 year old boy, but thats the way it is to make it out of that unstable country.  And in real life I don't think that that bond isn't as strong because its not that easy to have such a strong trust at such a young age. And this affects the well being of there family.