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Dew Breaker Passage Finder
Pages 41-80 1. "He simply wanted to get her home, if home it was, to that room, and to reduce the space between them until there was no air for her to breathe that he was not breathing too." (pg. 41) - The man hadn't seen his wife in seven years and was rushing to get them home so that they could be close to one another again. Since they were riding in the car they couldn't really spend the kind of quality time that he was hoping for. 2. "It was just that she looked so desperate, as if she were trying to force him to remember her by bombarding him with those photographs." (pg. 42) - His wife sent him many photographs throughout the years so that he would remember what she looked like, hoping that he wouldn't forget his love for her. Also, she wanted him to remember her so that he wouldn't be unfaithful. 3. "She wanted to tell her husband about that neighbor who had slept next to her those days after he'd left and in whose bed she had spent many nights after that." (pg. 48) - She was cheating on her husband with her neighbor as soon as he arrived in America. 4. "Her one message was from Eric, her former beau, suitor, lover, the near father of her nearly born child." (pg. 56) - Her husband and her divorced and he impregnated her. 5. "Next to the plain wooden frame were a dozen now dried red roses that Eric had bought her as they'd left the clinic after the procedure." (pg. 57) - She had an abortion. 6. "She'd almost called many times in the last three months, but had lost her nerve, thinking her voice might betray all that she could not say." (pg. 57) - She was afraid to call her parents because she didn't want to have to tell them all of the terrible things that had recently happened to her (abortion). 7. "Word circulated quickly from old employees to new arrivals that Nadine Osnac was not a friendly woman." (pg. 58) - Nadine was very depressed because of her abortion and her divorce, so she was rude to her colleagues at work. 8. "Ten years ago her parents had sold everything they owned and moved from what passed for a lower-middle-class neighborhood to one on the edge of a slum, in order to send her to nursing school abroad." (pg. 63) - This shows that her parents really cared about her, enough to give up their semi-comfortable way of life for a life of poverty. 9. "Had she carried to full term, her child, aborted two months after his or her conception, would likely have been born today, or yesterday, or tomorrow, probably sometime this week, but this month for certain." (pg. 68) - Its obvious that the abortion emotionally scarred Nadine and she can't stop thinking about it. 10. "Every time she passed a cemetery, Anne held her breath." (pg. 71) - When Anne was a little girl, her 3 year old brother drowned in the ocean and they never found his body and gave him a proper burial. She held her breath the way she thought her brother did before the ocean water filled his lungs. 11. "A long time ago, more than thirty years ago, in Haiti, your father worked in a prison, where he hurt many people." (pg. 72) - Anne wanted to tell her daughter this but she decided not to tell her until she was older. This means that Anne's daughter is Ka from earlier in the book. 12. "Besides, soon after her husband had opened his barbershop, he'd discovered that since he'd lost eighty pounds, changed his name, and given as his place of birth a village deep in the mountains of Leogane, no one asked about him anymore, thinking he was just a peasant who'd made good in New York." (pg. 76) - Anne's husband/Ka's father had moved on and forgotten his old ways of life. He no longer was a murderer and changed his life so that no one would no what he once was.

Pages 81-120 - " 'That's not it. I found him... in New York the man who killed Papa and Manman and took your sight.' " (pg 97) - The violent acts that ocurred in Haiti continue to come back to the characters, even after the many years that have passed. - "When he went to the barbershop to ask about the room, he recognized the barber as the man who had waved the gun at him outside his parent's house." - The man who killed Dany's parents and blinded his aunt is Ka's father/Anne's husband (I think). Creates a link among two of the characters.

Pages 121-165 "He asked me to go dancing with him one night. I had a boyfriend, so i said no. That's why he arrested me. He tied me to some type of rack in the prison and whipped the bottom of my feet until they bled. Then he made me walk home, barefoot. On tar roads. In the hot sun. At high noon. This man, wherever i rent or buy a house in the city, I find him, living on my street." (pg. 132) - Ka's father/Anne's husband was the man this man. He was a very angry and crazy man if he tortured this woman for not going out with him.

"No one's lived here since Dolly Rodriquez." (pg. 136) - Beatrice is going crazy in her old age because the dew breaker doesn't live in the house across the street like she says he is. She is paranoid and thinks he follows her everywhere she goes.

"He put the rest of the bread down, got up and paced around the room, and pressed his face against the wall, coming short of banging his forehead against it." (pg. 152) - Romain was worried about his father Regulus because of the crowd of people outside attempting to kill all of the militiamen.

"Still, it was too painful for me to be reminded that I had a father who lived and worked so close to me and still didn't call me his son." (pg. 159) - Michel was upset because his father, Monsieur Christophe, didn't even acknowledge that he was his son, and because his mother didn't know he knew Monsieur Christophe was his father, he couldn't say anything to Monsieur Christophe or his mother about it.