Human experience is deeply influenced by their past experiences, what we encounter in our daily life serve as platform to guide us or mislead our path in life. In “The Book Of The Dead by Edwidge” Danticat a Haitian writer, is one the short stories that accompanied her novel “The Dew Breaker”. The genesis of the story took place in hotel room in Florida when the writer introduces the narrator “Ka” and her father. Value and the weight of the past are one of the main matter that surrounded and emblems this story; a man who committed serious crime in the past, but has been portrayed as victim in her daughter eyes for years. The story full of detail as well as colorful characters, that show the value that have been imprinted in them which enhance and make the story a memorable piece of literature.
The story of young Haitian-American sculptor and her father that embark on remarkable journey to drop of her first piece of art, to a Haitian- American actress named Gabrielle Fonteneau. As Ka describe it, Fonteneau is a young television star and art collector who wanted …show more content…
Ka admires her father deeply, like many children admires their parents. For Ka learning the reality of her father life was devastating, as he was for him reveling his full identity and in way to feel liberate him or maybe to stop her daughter from thinking of him as victims instead of victimizer. Through the story, we see that Ka struggle to accept the fact that her father is killer and her father can’t live without guilt of past experiences. That show us that those who has been receiver may forget but those who carry weight must remember. Ka, was told her father action in the past but her father has been mark and will eternally carry the weight of the
The story of young Haitian-American sculptor and her father that embark on remarkable journey to drop of her first piece of art, to a Haitian- American actress named Gabrielle Fonteneau. As Ka describe it, Fonteneau is a young television star and art collector who wanted …show more content…
Ka admires her father deeply, like many children admires their parents. For Ka learning the reality of her father life was devastating, as he was for him reveling his full identity and in way to feel liberate him or maybe to stop her daughter from thinking of him as victims instead of victimizer. Through the story, we see that Ka struggle to accept the fact that her father is killer and her father can’t live without guilt of past experiences. That show us that those who has been receiver may forget but those who carry weight must remember. Ka, was told her father action in the past but her father has been mark and will eternally carry the weight of the