Essay 3

In the book Danicat uses many different narrators to tell their stories, first to show who the main character was, and second to allow the reader a chance to have a personal connection to the book. Micheal, Dany and Eirc live under the Dew Breaker and come into connect with him every day thus affecting their lives. Nadine is Eircs girlfriend and at one point was pregnant with his baby, but she decided to have an abortion. Beatress is a seamstress who lives down the street from him and is always fearing him. Freda is a funeral singer who has learned of the type of man he is and therefore fears him. In putting these people in the book it shows that even everyday people that were not severely effected by the Dew Breaker were still scared of who he was. This showed that even though he did not harm them he still made them fearful because of just who he once was.