Children of the Sea

        There are two main characters in "Children of the Sea", one is the girl and the other is a boy.  They are both nineteen or twenty, and they are in a relationship.  However, they cannot get along with each other because of many situations, such as the radio station violation, military suppression, and the girl under her father's control.  As a result, the boy has to leave the country and sail to Africa, and the girl is locked in her house.  They wrote the letters to each other often.  The bolded words are from the girl.  

  

        From the letter, we can tell that both two people worried and were afraid of their future, and both of them were suffering a strong missing and loneliness.  The boy has sailed away from the country in a small boat, and the environment on the boat is really bad.  The destination, Africa, does him no good because African discriminate Haiti even though they are in the same color and share the same ancestor.  Girl stayed at home missing the boy.  She wants to marry the boy and is ready to marry him, but her father refuses her and locks her up at home.  Her father thinks there should be another man to take care of her and bring more benefits to her.  Then, the society gets crazy, and the girl is in a more dangerous place. 

        Borning at the wrong time in a wrong place, it is so hard for people to follow their wills.  The most mournful love is produced in chaos.  "Children of the Sea" reminds me a movie I watched last year.  The movie is called Atonement.  It is mainly about in WWII, British, a servant and the young lady of that big mansion fall in love, but they are separated immediately because of war and hierarchy.  The man goes to the battlefield in France, and the lady becomes a nurse in London.  They are communicating by sending letters.  In the end, the man died on the day before Dunkirk Evacuation, and the woman died in an air raid.  They miss each other so much, and they believe the man will come back and they will live happily in a white house near the sea.  However, their wishes never happen.  What left in the end? Sunset, ocean, reed marshes, and miserable and gloomy atmosphere.  People's innocence, wishes, passionate hearts, and fragile hope make a tragedy even more miserable.