Brother I M Dying Summary

“Brother, I’m Dying” describes a personal story of Edwidge Danticat’s family’s anecdote and struggles with political issues, Haiti’s dangerous and poor living situation and their troubles of immigrant in the United States. The book starts with the news of both Edwidge discovered she is pregnant with her first child and her father, Mira, is suffering from pulmonary fibrosis. She started to recall two years ago, her father had urged to stay in New York rather leave for Miami with her husband. His reason was that families should stay together, which he knows too well the regret of being absent without family support. Edwidge’s parents had left her and her brother, Bob, in the care of their uncle Joseph and Aunt Denise when she was four. Edwidge

This is an attempt at cohesiveness, and at recreating a few wondrous and terrible months when their lives and mine intersected in startling ways, forcing me to look forward and back at the same time. I am writing this only because they can’t” (p24). It tells us how great influence by her biological father and uncle have given to her, and how deep their relationship has developed. Despite her father has absent from her life for so many years, how did he regain her love and build their relationship. On the other hand, though her uncle isn’t her biological father, how did they bound like a father-daughter relationship. Besides the direct relationship between Danticat’s father and her uncle’s brotherhood, her relationship between her father’s parenthood and the relationship between her and her uncle, this book demonstrates the complexity of the triangular relationships between three of

I suppose this saying cautions those who care for other people’s children not to give over their whole hearts, because they will never get a whole heart back. I wonder if after we left for New York, my uncle felt that way(p118). Danticat always thinks whether her uncle saw her differently, or saw her as his own child, it seems like there is a part of her desire her uncle’s love or approval. Though she knew that her uncle isn’t her father, but only her uncle, the years, spending together and the “writing” skill from both of them have tied their relationship closer and probably influence and develop Danticat’s life. Danticat also presents how her father’s illnesses that shapes others’ lives, how strong he was and how willing he was to share others his values. As Danticat recorded and cherished her father’s value, she named her daughter after her father’s name, which indicates how important his father figure is to