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The Dew Breaker

Introduction

Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti and moved to the United States. Danticat is the author of several books, many of which discuss the history of Haiti and the Haitian experience. The Dew Breaker revealed secretes by a Haitian immigrant who changed lives.

The Dew Breaker Edwidge Danticat is a collection of stories or a novel episodes, which form a thematic unit related to the Macoutes, groups paramilitaries who responded to the dictator Francois Duvalier in Haiti. Questions that guide this analysis are: What role does memory in the construction of the identity of the characters? How, if possible, project the individual and collective memory and the story? In both stories the characters need to regain their memories and relate them to integrate their identity. This recovery is only possible in social interaction, which has the effect of building a bond with the community and history from a perspective is not epic.

Discussion

The Dew Breaker is between a conventional and a new novel by thematic short story collection. Neutral is a fictional text is formulated with strong historical and autobiographical background limited. The writer Edwidge Danticat came with 12 years of Port-au-Prince, Haiti to Brooklyn.

The mosaic-like leaves some of the nine texts for the reader. This procedure is generally well received by the reader: hardly anyone wants to have everything spelled. Edwidge Danticat was called in a TV interview the reasons for the work.

Although Haiti is located on the doorstep of the United States, but it gets both in America and in Europe, too little attention. While the Dominican Republic and Jamaica, Cuba and even among German destinations, Haiti is in the blind spot. By The Dew Breaker, the attention of the reader and the political situation in Haiti in recent decades there will be channeled. The nine stories and gradually open up the mosaic of blood rule (the Duvalier, are not named) in Haiti.

The Book of the Dead

Seven

Water Child

The Book of Miracles

Night Talker

The Bridal Seamstress

Monkey Tail

The Funeral Singer

The Dew Breaker

The Book of the Dead

The main characters are introduced in first chapter: Ka and her father to Gabrielle Fonteneau. The narrator goes Ka with her father to Gabrielle Fonteneau in Florida. Gabrielle, a U.S. citizen from Haiti, is a successful TV actor and art collector who want to buy a sculpture of the narrator. The sculpture represents the father. But the meeting is threatening to burst: the father disappears. When he shows up back at the hotel he leads Ka to the lake, into which he has cast the statue. He says he does not deserve statue and justified it with.

The following chapters show from different perspectives people from Haiti seeking to escape the ravages of the paramilitaries. They are closely related thematically but personally loosely connected stories. The last chapter that the book was the name implies the clip. In a spectacular finale - a flashback to 1967 - the father acts ...