The Dew Breaker

The beginning of Danticat’s novel dealt with new beginnings. There were several instances where the main characters of each passage tried to rid themselves of their past. Ka’s father literally leaves the country and moves to a place where there shouldn’t be a sign of his Haitian heritage. Also, when Ka’s father exposed his secret to Ka it was him coming to terms to what he was. Ka soon brung up the “Negative Confession” ritual, which took place before the weighing of the hearts. Which symbolized…

Immigration in the United States. The Dew Breaker stories all had some kind of immigration plot involved within the main subject. Because the United States is a country made up of immigrants, it is hard not to focus our attention on then different problems they had or are facing while living here. According to Andres J. Pumariega, M.D. and specialist in mental health “First and second generation immigrant children are the most rapidly growing segment of the American population”. The future of…

The Scars of Ka’s Father “Scars are stories, history written on the body [sic]” Anonymous. In the story “The Dew Breaker” the narrator is Ka, a girl who created a sculpture inspired by her father. Her father is an older man from the country of Haiti, who has a scar on his face, from what Ka believes he had got from falling off the bed and onto the floor. As the story continues, Ka learns the truth about her father’s scar and all the history behind it; which is a much darker story then she had…

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…

this way” (Kenne 201). The quote shows a hopeless man who puts a woman on a pedestal, which is the reverse of the patriarchal system that produces men who breaks women’s hearts. The woman demonstrate resistance to this norm by saying “If the white dew must vanish, let it vanish” (Kenne 201). This quote clearly shows the woman playing a superior position as the heartbreaker in a relationship. In this case, she also shows her boldness by her comfort with rejecting a men to be either…

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