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Nadine Osnac
Emmanuel Constant led a militia in Haiti that brutally oppressed supporters of Haiti’s first democratically-elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was in exile. Constant escaped to New York, although he was tried in absentia in Haiti and given a life sentence. Residents of the Haitian diasporic neighborhood in Brooklyn put up “Wanted” posters of Constant, and in the book Ka thinks she seems him at Midnight Mass. However, after Anne gets a closer looks, she determines the man is not actually Constant.
Emmanuel Constant Quotes in The Dew Breaker
The The Dew Breaker quotes below are all either spoken by Emmanuel Constant or refer to Emmanuel Constant. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The Book of Miracles
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What if it were Constant? What would she do? Would she spit in his face or embrace him, acknowledging a kinship of shame and guilt that she'd inherited by marrying her husband? How would she even know whether Constant felt any guilt or shame? What if he'd come to this Mass to flaunt his freedom? To taunt those who'd been affected by his crimes? What if he didn't even see it that way? What if he considered himself innocent? Innocent enough to go anywhere he pleased? What right did she have to judge him? As a devout Catholic and the wife of a man like her husband, she didn't have the same freedom to condemn as her daughter did.
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Emmanuel Constant Quotes in The Dew Breaker
The The Dew Breaker quotes below are all either spoken by Emmanuel Constant or refer to Emmanuel Constant. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
The Book of Miracles
Quotes
What if it were Constant? What would she do? Would she spit in his face or embrace him, acknowledging a kinship of shame and guilt that she'd inherited by marrying her husband? How would she even know whether Constant felt any guilt or shame? What if he'd come to this Mass to flaunt his freedom? To taunt those who'd been affected by his crimes? What if he didn't even see it that way? What if he considered himself innocent? Innocent enough to go anywhere he pleased? What right did she have to judge him? As a devout Catholic and the wife of a man like her husband, she didn't have the same freedom to condemn as her daughter did.
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