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Dew Breaker Summarizer
Pages 1-40: Major Plot elements: The first 40 pages of __The Dew Breaker__ are strictly informative. The first 34 pages consist of the author introducing Ka, her father, her mother, and a secret that has been kept away from her for her entire life. Ka learns that her father killed and harmed many, but that is all the reader is able to discover. The chapter ends with Ka pondering over what she has been told. Pages 35-40 talk of a man whose name is never told and of his wife coming to New York from Haiti to live with him. Page 40 leaves the reader witht the woman with a customs officer, preparing to meet her husband.
 * 1) Father intrduced through running away (pg 1)
 * 2) Ka introduced as narrator (pg 17)
 * 3) Ka told her father was the "hunter" not the "prey" (pg 20)
 * 4) Ka is confused by the secret she has been told (pg 32-33)
 * 5) Man is introduced; has not seen his wife for seven years (pg 35)

Pages 81-120: Major Plot elements: 1. During pages 81-87 Anne, her husband (the dew breaker), and Ka attend mass on Christmas Eve 2. They saw a man at church that they thought was Emmanuel Constant who was a mass murderer 3. Anne was worried that he would notice her husband and that people would realize how horrible his past was 4. Anne got a good luck at the man and realized it wasn't Emmanuel Constant 5. In the next chapter a boy, Dany, is in Haiti and trying to surprise his Aunt Estina 6. He arrives at a house of children and they get him water because he is parched 7. Old man Zo, one of the children's father, takes him to find his aunt 8. Dany tells his aunt that he found the man that killed his parents and made her blind 9. Aunt Estina introduces Dany to a boy, Claude, who came back from America 10. Dany talks to Claude and finds out Claude got out of jail for killing his father 11. The man who killed Dany's parents was Ka's father 12. Aunt Estina dies in her sleepThe last 7 pages of the chapter "The Book Of Miracles" is about Anne and her family attending mass on Christmas Eve. Anne is the wife of the dew breaker and is nervous because she thought she saw a man in church that might recognize her husband, and could reveal his past to people. The next chapter "Night Talkers" is about a young man, Dany. Dany is hiking over a mountain in Haiti and trying to find his Aunt Estina so that he can tell her something. He came from America as a surprise. He comes to a house with a large group of children playing outside and asks them for some water. A young woman they call Ti Fanm gets it for him. Ti Fanm's father Old Zo takes Dany to find Aunt Estina. Once Dany finds his aunt he tells her that he found the man that killed his parents and caused her to be blind. Apparently, when Dany was just a boy, a man with a gun burned down his house, killing his parents and making Aunt Estina blind. Old Zo and Ti Fanm interrupt the conversation and Aunt Estina doesn't bring it up for a while. She tells Dany that a young man named Claude came home to Haiti not too long ago from America. She wants Dany to speak with him because he doesn't know Creole very well. When Dany speaks with him Claude tells him his life story and how he was in jail. One night Dany wakes Aunt Estina with his nightmares and she wakes him up. They then started to talk about the man that killed his parents, but Aunt Estina insisted on talking about it tomorrow because she was tired. Then the next morning Dany found her dead because she died in her sleep. The rest of the chapter is the village preparing and having the funeral and mourning for her. At the mourning Dany asks Claude if the reason he was in jail was because he killed his father because thats what the rumor was. Claude tells him that was true. He killed his father when he was hustling and selling drugs. He was high on drugs at the time and his father found some and took it from him. Claude pulled out a gun on his father and threatened to shoot him if he didn't give them back. His father refused and Claude shot and killed him. Claude felt that he was lucky that he didn't have life in prison or the chair for murdering his father. Towards the end of the chapter we find out that the man that killed Dany's parents and made Aunt Estina blind was Ka's father, the dew breaker. Dany snuck into the man's room at night and was going to kill him but decided not to. Dany was staying in the basement of the building that the man lived in. He also said that the man was his barber, and every time he cut his hair he shook and thought about what he did to his family.

Pages 121-165 Major Plot Elements In the //Bridal Seamstress//, Aline interviews Beatrice Saint Fort when the latter decides to retire from her trade. Instead of the interview producing the small piece it was intended to, Aline finds herself re-discovering her life. After being told Beatrice was whipped and tortured by a prison guard who lives a few houses down, Aline begins inspecting the house to discover more about the torturer. After pondering the fear that has engulfed Beatrice's life, Aline decides to pursue a career in writing of the many people whose lives are filled with perpetual fear. In //Monkey Tails,// Michel is living in Haiti the day that their dictator leaves and the people begin to revolt. The angry crowd runs throughout the country, murdering the macoutes who, during the regime, tortured and killed the citizens. Michel wants very badly to spend the time with his best friend Romain, whose runaway father Regulus is a targeted macoute. Romain and Michel then "escape" to the La Sensation hotel where Romain comes to find Regulus, but to no avail. While sitting at the hotel, Romain makes a very smart remark towards Michel's father, which forces Michel to begin thinking about how he is possibly the "secret" child between his mother and Monsieur Christophe. After his thinking, Michele sees Romain leave the country, never to be heard from again. The chapter ends with Michel speaking with to his unborn child about his "myth," which is that he will name him Romain if he is born on the anniversary day of him becoming a man.
 * 1) Aline Cajuste interviews Beatrice Saint Fort about her retiring from being a seamstress. (pg 121-122)
 * 2) A quick interview turns into a trip back into Haiti's violent history when Beatrice talks about a prison guard. (pg 131-132)
 * 3) She tells Aline that the prison guard whipped her feet because she denied him a dance. (pg 132)
 * 4) This compels Aline to look into the guard's house and see if anyone is living there. (pg 135)
 * 5) After thinking harder about what happened, Aline decides to focus her life on writing about the people whose lives were filled with fear. (pg 138)
 * 6) In Monkey Tails, the chapter begins with Michel and his mom hiding underneath a bed from a crowd marching through the street. (pg 139-140)
 * 7) The crowd is torturing and killing macoutes (national militia) for what they did to them during the dictator's regime. (pg 140-141)
 * 8) Michel's best friend, Romain, has a father (Regulus) whom the crowd is searching for. (pg 142)
 * 9) Michel has to help Monsieur Christophe when his water pipes break, but he runs to Romain's house. They then proceed to "escape". (pg 154-155)
 * 10) The two escape to the La Sensation hotel where Romain hoped to find Regulus. (pg 156-159)
 * 11) Romain's smart comment about Michel's father makes Michel begin thinking about the possible truth that he is a "secret" child of Monsieur Christopher. (pg 159-160)
 * 12) Romain then leaves Michel forever, never to be heard from again. (pg 160-161)
 * 13) Michel sits with his wife and new baby and tells him if he is to be born on the anniversary of his manhood he will name him Romain. (pg 164)