Memory in Marshall’s "Praisesong for the Widow" and Danticat’s "Breath, Eyes"

Memory can define to some extent who we are and how we move forward in our lives. Memory may be a straight and narrow road, or let us decide which way to go. The memory of the past helps to identify a person and it may affect the future. Through self-discovery rhythm, Marshall 's widow and Daniel' s breathing, eyes, and memories of prayer show that people have to rely on past and present memories to find their true identity in the future . Ivey Johnson, a widow's patron, has been economically stable for many years. The middle-aged widow has lost its identity since childhood.

Danticat, Edwidge (1969 -) Novelist, short novelist, editor, Edwidge Danticat was born in Haiti and won extensively since her first novel "Breathing, Eyes, Memory" (1994) when she was 25 years old It was. To praise. The best black writer in her generation is one of the few Haitian heritage writers published in English. Danny Carter's novels and short stories highlight the poverty of Haitian life and political corruption, and the specific challenges facing Haitian immigrants in the United States. Edwidge Danticat was born on January 19, 1969 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. When she was two years old, her father moved to the United States to build a house for his family. Danticat's mother was with him in two years, Danticat and her brothers were able to take care of their relatives. "My most lively memories of Haiti" At the end of early childhood, Danica talks as "incident with power outage". When Edwige was 12 years old, she and her elder brother moved to New York and joined with their parents.

The story of a biography born in Haiti in 1969 Novels, essays, and short story writers Edwidge Danticat was raised by aunt and uncle (in her breathing, eyes, memory, like her protagonist, Sophie Caco) It was. At the age of 12, the parents of Brooklyn, the value of "home", were scattered, contradictory, and immigrated with a lot of people. At the American Development Bank Cultural Center (later entitled "AHA!") Held in Washington, DC in 1997 in 1997, Danticat stated that her family's trajectory to the United States was mapped to several trips . Individual family, but this is a "somewhat typical migration model" and "I add models to many people I know" (40). Danticat's father, Andre 'Danticat, moved to Edwidge at the age of two in 1971, then sent to his wife Rose when the writer was 4 years old.