Throughout the text death is expressed through language. I suppose that's rather obvious because its a text, however how it is expressed is interesting. When someone is dying or has passed away Edwidge's family expresses it without using excess words. "Brother I am dying." "My wife is dead." This then led me to think about whether or not our society uses and over abundance of words to discuss death, as though somehow to make it easier?
Perhaps this is a bit of rambling..but I was certainly struck with the almost abruptness the topic of death is brought up.
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...and yes, the word "death" is bald, incomplete, unfinished. and i think knowing this as a truth herself, danticat problematizes its use for us the reader. asks us to think.
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...and yes, the word 'death' is bald, incomplete, unfinished. and i think knowing this as a truth for herself, danticat problematizes its use for the reader. ask us to think.
ann page
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