Essay 1

Danicat is a very unique writer, she uses many unusual techniques to portray who her main character really is. In the Dew Breaker she separates her story into nine different antidotes each of which is narrated by a different individual who has a at one time or another came into contact with the main character. She uses these antidotes to build up the main character, the Dew Breaker, from many points of view to try and better show who he really is.
In writing the story this way she makes the reader constantly wonder what is really happening. By doing writing the book this way Danicat has to just touch on each of the narrators points of view and not tell their full experience. She also has to make sure to only state simple facts so she does not tell the reader anything until the end. In just, this style ties her hands and makes her use simple statements in each tale not allowing the point of the book to be revealed till the end.
By the book being written this way the reader has to spend the whole book wondering what is going on and why the story is being told like this. The reader is not able to just read the story and learn what the writer wants them to learn in this book, they have to consecrate on each narrators point of view and attempt to learn what importance they are to the book. In conclusion the reader has to really focus on the details of the novel.