Many people in today's world have difficulty communicating. In literature many authors use communication as a way to create relationships or to create barriers at the same time. In the novel The Dew Breaker, by Edwidge Danticat, many characters have difficulty communicating their past, while others are able to accept it. This is shown throughout the novel, however, three stories that show this in particular are "Seven", "Night Talkers", and "Monkey Tails". Danticat uses communication to represent a theme that the more people communicate about their pasts and secrets, the easier it is for them to accept them. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original Essay In the second story of the novel, “Seven,” a man and his wife are introduced. They haven't seen each other for seven years. After this long separation a barrier begins to form. They know they miss each other and love each other, but they don't really know how to deal with each other. The situation is almost embarrassing. The husband is even afraid of how to tell his wife that he loves her. He thinks about it first and says, "It's a shame that in Creole the word for love, renmen, is also the word for like" (Danticat 43), so instead of simply saying I love you he should use it in a sentence to explain how much he loved her . Due to the seven-year separation he didn't know what to add and so he didn't say anything. This plus, the affairs that neither share with the other, adds to the barrier. There is also a language barrier between them. The husband, having lived in America seven years before his wife's arrival, has become accustomed to his life. While the wife finds it very difficult because not only is she unfamiliar with the city but she doesn't speak English, creating another communication barrier between her and the world around her. The longer they go without communicating about their last seven years, the greater the barrier becomes between them. Danticat uses this barrier of lack of communication to support the theme that the more you hide your past, the harder it will be to move forward. The next story that represents the theme of communication is "Night Talkers". Night Talkers are “people who wet the bed, not with urine but with words” (98). This chapter is given this title because many characters present in it have this characteristic. The first night talker we meet is both Estina and Dany. Dany is a young man living in New York City who returns home to Haiti to tell his aunt Estina that he discovered the man who killed his parents years ago. Estina doesn't bother thinking about the past terror she and Dany experienced, instead she embraces her past and isn't ashamed of it. This is not the case with Dany, although he is determined to live in the past and discuss it with Estina. On one of Dany's "chattiest nights", he dreams of finishing the conversation with his aunt about the man who killed his parents, when his own voice shakes him. When he wakes up, he finds that his aunt is also awake. Once she falls asleep, he also hears her words mumble in her sleep, eventually becoming the last words he ever hears from her. The last evening speaker we meet is Claude. Danticat portrays Claude as a luckier night talker because instead of talking about his nightmares out loud to himself, he is able to talk about his nightmares to others as well. However he cannot always do this due to his English language barrier. This chapter refers to the theme of communication present in all chapters. Dany doesn't have the chance to tell her aunt what she would have wanted regarding the barber, but communication appears to have occurred. As night talkers there is an intangible connection between the.