The Dew Breaker

by

Edwidge Danticat

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Dany is a young man whose parents were killed by the Duvalier regime. He is raised in Haiti by his aunt Estina, who eventually compels him to leave the country and immigrate to the US in order to get away from the people who murdered his parents. Ironically, while living in Brooklyn, he ends up a tenant of the very man (Papa) he believes killed them. He returns to Haiti to visit Estina and tell her this, and during this time Estina dies, leaving Dany profoundly stricken by grief.

Dany Quotes in The Dew Breaker

The The Dew Breaker quotes below are all either spoken by Dany or refer to Dany . 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:
Grief, Memory, and Erasure Theme Icon
).
Night Talkers Quotes

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.

Related Characters: Dany , Claude
Page Number: 118
Explanation and Analysis:
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Dany Quotes in The Dew Breaker

The The Dew Breaker quotes below are all either spoken by Dany or refer to Dany . 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:
Grief, Memory, and Erasure Theme Icon
).
Night Talkers Quotes

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.

Related Characters: Dany , Claude
Page Number: 118
Explanation and Analysis: