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    A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat's "Ghosts"
    A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat's "Ghosts"
    A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat's "Ghosts"
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    A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat's "Ghosts"

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    A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat's "Ghosts", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Studentsfor all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMay 15, 2018
    ISBN9781535846103
    A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat's "Ghosts"

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      A Study Guide for Edwidge Danticat's "Ghosts" - Gale

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      Ghosts

      Edwidge Danticat

      2008

      Introduction

      Ghosts is a story by Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat. It was published in the New Yorker in November 2008. The story is set in Bel Air, a slum neighborhood in Portau-Prince, the capital city of Haiti. Haiti is a small, impoverished country that occupies the western third of the island of Hispaniola, bordered by the Dominican Republic. The island is located in the Caribbean Sea between Cuba and Puerto Rico, seven hundred miles from the coast of Florida. In Bel Air, as depicted in the story, crime and drugs are rife. The ghosts of the title refers to the gang members in the neighborhood who grew up on the streets and have in many cases never lived in a house, or whose parents have died, leaving them alone in the city.

      The story is something of a coming-of-age tale. The young protagonist, Pascal Dorien, works for a radio station and has ambitions of becoming a radio journalist. He wants to develop a program that would help people understand gang members better, but he is thwarted in his efforts. Events take an unexpected and rather frightening turn when he is unjustly arrested; through that experience he learns a great deal about the kind of life that gang members lead.

      A substantially revised version of Ghosts was published in the chapter of that title in Danticat's novel Claire of the Sea Light in 2010.

      Author Biography

      Edwidge Danticat was born January 19, 1969, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Her parents were poor, and when Danticat was two years old, her father immigrated to the United States, working as a taxi driver in New York. Two years later, Danticat's mother joined her husband in New York, leaving Danticat and her younger brother Eliab to be raised by their uncle. In 1981, when Danticat was twelve, she joined her parents in New York.

      Raised speaking Creole and French, Danticat learned English by reading African American novelists such as James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Alice Walker. As a recent

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