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I just finished reading the four Dew Breaker articles. I thought that " Home is Where the Heart is" was obviously very long and detailed and it had a ton of information in it about Danticat's other book which confused me a little. It also had alot of information about Daticat's personal history and some parts of it really helped me to further understand the book like the Homecomings section that picked apart "Night Talker's." My favorite of the articles was Bob Corbett's comments. It explains how the the book has traces of real events and how the book is neither a book of short stories or an average formatted novel. The articles all point out important themes present throughout the stories and story as a whole.
I like the way the stories fit together as a puzzle. A book that makes you think helps to keep your interest. Also having to put things together really makes you remember and connect to the stories. " The Dew Breaker" is a book that brings you to awareness of a real issue in a different way. You can see what happened in Haiti and the effects is through the characters. You can almost feel the horror, sadness, loss, and the fear that fill the lives of the victims that are portrayed. I feel like this method of bringing awareness is more affective than just reading a history book or listening to the news or something along those lines. For example, think about the Holocaust. We can read about the number of people who died, what happened, why, when, and where it took place and we can learn about it that way. Or, we can read "The Diary of Anne Frank", watch a movie like "Schindler's List" or even visit the remains of a real concentration camp. I think that you can only truly grasp the effect or significance of something if you find way to see it though the eyes of the people that experienced or were affected by it. You can better understand something if you can somehow relate it to yourself and your own life and i think that the "Dew Breaker" does this for us.