Claude is a young Haitian American man who was deported back to Haiti after murdering his father. Claude was 14 and living in New York when the incident took place. He was addicted to crack and was also selling drugs, and when his father seized his stash and refused to give it back, Claude shot him. Despite being deported and spending three months in prison in Haiti, Claude considers himself “the luckiest fucker alive.” This is because he received the chance to profoundly transform his life at a young age. Indeed, the friendly, kind, and understanding way he behaves indicates that he has indeed transformed into a much better person.
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In spite of his huge muscles and oversized tattoos, Claude seemed oddly defenseless, like a refugee lost at sea, or a child looking for his parents in a supermarket aisle. Or maybe that’s just how Dany wanted to see him, to make him seem more normal, less frightening.
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Claude Quotes in The Dew Breaker
The The Dew Breaker quotes below are all either spoken by Claude or refer to Claude . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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In spite of his huge muscles and oversized tattoos, Claude seemed oddly defenseless, like a refugee lost at sea, or a child looking for his parents in a supermarket aisle. Or maybe that’s just how Dany wanted to see him, to make him seem more normal, less frightening.
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