Edwidge Danticat Analysis

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Edwidge Danticat: Name is pronounced "Ed-weedj Dan-ti-kah"; born January 19, 1969, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; immigrated to the United States, 1981; daughter of André Miracin (a cab driver) and Rose Souvenance (a textile worker) Danticat; married Fedo Boyer; children: Mira, Leila. Education: Barnard College, B.A. 1990; Brown University, M.F.A., 1993. Memberships: Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Kappa Alpha. CAREER: Writer. Clinica Estetico (filmmakers), New York, NY, production and research assistant, 1993-94; writer, educator, and lecturer, 1994--. New York University, New York, professor, 1996-97; University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, visiting professor of creative writing, spring, 2000.
Guy, Lili, and their son, Little Guy, live in a one-room shack in Haiti. They get excited when Little Guy gets to play a revolutionary at school, and Guy gets extra work cleaning bathrooms at a plantation, in …show more content…

I call on our mighty and the weak. I call on everyone and anyone so that we shall all let out one piercing cry that we may either lie freely or we should die," (Danticat 377). Guy feels himself a little better than a slave as he seems to be able to rise above poverty in which he feels he’s trapped. Guy remembers he wasn’t a fan of his father. Since he does not want his son to have the same memory. He fulfills his dream of flying the balloon, but after this breathtaking experience, he may feel that he can’t return to his life of unhappiness, so he dives from the balloon in order to leave his son a time honored memory. Guy killing himself was not an accident. He didn’t want to intentionally jump from the hot air balloon, he didn’t want his son to have a fond memory of him, but jumping from that hot air balloon, that’s a memory the young boy will never forget. Little guy admired his father; he was always trying to cheer his dad

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