Brother I M Dying Analysis

The memoir Brother, I’m Dying, written by Edwidge Danticat, displays Danticat’s biological father and uncle Joseph Ewidge’s lifestyles and stories. Uncle Joseph acts as a father figure to her when she and Bob were left in Haiti without their parents, while his brother Mira and his wife immigrate to the United States believing it was a safer environment. However, in the memoir Brother, I’m Dying, when the children are separated from their parents they tend to grow attachments to other adults, attempts to connect to their parents, and have various standing on communication.

Children grow attached to other adults in their lives to replace a missing component in their lives such as an absent parent. Within the memoir when Edwidge and Bob immigrate

From how children who were “displaced,” separated from their parents, tend to struggle communicating with their parents or other individuals. From the article of “Displaced Children”, written by the author Morgan Daget a novelist states, “Most of the time, displaced children find themselves separated from their close relations [sic] during such an event. Deprived of the care and protection of their family” (Displaced Children). In other words, this information demonstrates how children who do not have a great relationship or communicate with their parents later are vulnerable to other outside relationships. However, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, there is a treaty to help children, birth parents, and adoptive parents who are involved in intercountry adoptions called The Hague process. While Ewidge Danticat was not adopted by her uncle Joseph she did have a relationship of an adopted child by the actions and characteristics portrayed by her uncle Joseph. Another example of lack of communication in Brother, I’m Dying, is when Edwidge is trying to inform her father of pregnancy she rushes out the information then later departs quickly from her father’s taxi cab. Edwidge still has trouble telling her parents vital information in life because she neglected telling them for several scenes beforehand. Suárez-Orozco, Carola and Irina L. G. Todorova states, “Dario (a regular boy whom has experienced the transition of immigrating to live with his biological mother) presents contrasting identities—one in the context of the classroom, where he is shy, obedient, and minimally engaged, and another in the street, where he livens up and appears in control” (The Social Worlds of Immigrant Youth). Dario was separated from both his parents growing and lived with a relative but after emigrating from a community where he was raised to live with his mother but he often struggles to express or talk to others and his own mother. Which is similar to Edwidge