Essay 2

Danticat starts the story with Ka and her father sharing his dark secret to help aid the style of her book and to show the actually person her father is. This is first in order to show what type of person the Dew Breaker is now and to make the reader very alert and wonder what happened in the past to make him so ashamed. Following this she goes backwards to the climax in the book so she can build up the character and show how he changed and why he has changed so much in the beginning. In writing the book this way she allows the reader to be more personal with the book, because they have to consecrate on the book more.