Freda is a young Haitian immigrant who befriends Rézia and Mariselle in her GED class. Back in Haiti, Freda was a funeral singer, an occupation she began after singing at her own father’s funeral. Freda feels great sadness over her father’s death and the political situation in Haiti, but she finds optimism via her new friends in New York.
Freda Quotes in The Dew Breaker
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The Funeral Singer
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My mother used to say that we'll all have three deaths: the one when our breath leaves our bodies to rejoin the air, the one when we are put back in the earth, and the one that will erase us completely and no one will remember us at all.
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Freda Quotes in The Dew Breaker
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The Funeral Singer
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My mother used to say that we'll all have three deaths: the one when our breath leaves our bodies to rejoin the air, the one when we are put back in the earth, and the one that will erase us completely and no one will remember us at all.
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