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As I was reading through The Dew Breaker, I noticed that the living situation in Haiti and in New York was very different. The chapters that centered around life in Haiti showed a life where family and community were very present. For instance, everyone in Aunt Estème’s village helped each other out and were quick to jump into action in times of celebration and need. This contrasts greatly with the lives of immigrants in New York. There the characters live solitary lives, cut off from their families and friends. Anne claimed that in New York she didn’t know anyone outside of acquaintances. This is very different from their life in Haiti. I thought that this contrast was very interesting and wanted to look more into it.
I found some key themes that stretched across multiple characters and looked at them through the lens of where they lived. These themes included: separation, isolation, fear, death, community, and family. The themes of isolation and separation were applied exclusively to the characters living in New York while the themes community and family were prevalent among the locations in Haiti. This reveals the major distinction between the living situation in New York and Haiti.
I decided to make an infographic because I wanted to represent the information visually. I thought this would be a cool way to get to take in the information as you get to see where the character lives, see a description of the location and read the quotes and analysis to go with each theme. I thought that this would be a unique and effective way to look at this text.
Works Cited
Girault, Christian Antoine. “Haiti.” britannica.com. Encyclopedia Britannica, 2020.
Danticat, Edwidge. The Dew Breaker. 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York: Vintage Books, 2005.
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Sprockets and Springes 
This is amazing! What a great way to lay out themes alongside quotes, and the fact that you included pictures, clipart, and maps made this really engaging to pan around and look at. What I thought was really interesting was the reoccurring theme of isolation that you pulled from the text. Throughout the entire book we see people removed and alone in so many different ways, but to see them all given space on the same page really shows how much that removal from family or culture affects the total book. I feel that the themes of migration and separation fit so well into that slot too, building up to a larger theme. It’s also really harp of you to notice that this theme is most pronounced in the characters who live in New York. Great analysis!
This is a fantastic project! I really like how you compare the living in New York to living in Haiti. I also love the diagram you created with the visuals alongside the quotations, it flows so nicely together. I completely agree with how you mentioned that the characters living in New York seemed to experience isolation and separation throughout all of the different stories, and the themes of community and family seemed to be more prevalent to the characters in Haiti.