Book Of The Dead: A Literary Analysis

Edwidge Danticat made most of the short stories have a different point of view and characters, with some overlapping. For example, in the first short story, "Book of the Dead," it is told in the point of view of Ka, a teenage girl. Ka's father has a Haitian background, and readers later find out that he himself was a Haitian torturer. In the second short story, "Seven," it is told by a Haitian man who lives in an apartment in NYC with two other Haitian men, is finally seeing his wife from Haiti, who is moving in with him in NYC. Readers later find out that the man's landlord is the father of Ka in the first short story, who is a Dew Breaker. With just these two short stories, there is so much difference. With all the short stories in the book, it makes many unique storylines that contribute to the overall meaning of the book.