1. Danticat uses a different number of narrators to tell the story to add an interesting twist and to give different point of views. The shifting points of view helps to give the reader more than one side of the story which in return leaves the reader with less bias. The different points of view affects how the reader understands the story by forcing them to think abstractly puttin together the diffrent peices to form the main idea of the story.
2. The author starts the book off with Ka's father's confession and ends it with the last crime he committed so that the reader will stay intrested, she also does this so the reader can connect the ending in the beginning with the stories in the middle. This way of telling the story is more powerful than a chronological telling because the reader stays intrigued and its different from how most books are structured.
3. The stories of Eric, Michel, Dany, Nadine, Beatrice, and Freda allow the readers to put together the missing peices in the book and allow us to see the Dew Breaker throughout his life even though he, himself does not tell his own story. These peoples lives were intertwined with Ka's father directly and indirectly, some of the people were hurt by him others were tortured by his Dew Breaker colleagues, and others just were living around but in some way he affected all of them.
4. Ka's mother marries the Dew Breaker because she and Ka make him better and she feels as if its her duty to stand by him especially because she is a very religious women. Ka's mother stays with him even after learning the truth about the identity of his last victim because at the time she just needed somebody to be there for her and at the time, and over time she begins to realize she can make him better. The reconciliation of Ka's parents is a good example of how anything can be forgiven, and even the worst of people can find redemption. The last section of the story told in the The Dew Breaker bring us back to the beginning because you finally find out the kind of person the Dew Breaker used to be, and the reasoning to why he is the way he is now, it fills in any missing gaps.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
A Golden Weekend
This weekend was homecoming and I think it is safe to say this was the best weekend I have had since coming to college. My birthday was Tuesday so I also was celebrating that this weekend. From eating food and enjoying the beautiful weather at the chill-n-grill to watching the basketball team blow out William and Mary; there wasn't many negatives about this weekend. The parties were also pretty amazing. This was a very memorable weekend but now its time to crackdown on the books
Free Response
While in class Friday we watched an interview with the author of the Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danticat. At the end of the interview she made a statement that was very touching to me. She said that we may be going through something in life that we think others can relate to but in all reality there is probably someone out there that has gone through or is going through that same experience. I never really thought of it that way because as humans we naturally just think about ourselves. If we tell our experiences to others we may find out that there are others in the same shoes and might be able to help them and vice versa.
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