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Léon is a shoeshine man who performs small acts of political resistance, such as pouring slop on the heads of Volunteers. He finds it difficult to reconcile his opposition to the Duvalier regime with the fact that his own son is a Volunteer. He is a close friend of the preacher, and informs Anne when he is arrested.
Léon Quotes in The Dew Breaker
The The Dew Breaker quotes below are all either spoken by Léon or refer to Léon. 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 Dew Breaker (Circa 1967)
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Léon, the shoeshine man, wiped a tear from his eye, remembering his own son who was one of those men who roamed the night in denim uniforms and carried people away to their deaths. His son might have been one of those he’d emptied the slop jars on and who had shot in his direction in return, for a good Volunteer, it was said, should be able to kill his mother and father for the regime.
Even though Léon hated what his son did, he still had to let his boy come home now and then for the boy’s mother's sake and still had to acknowledge that maybe it was because of his boy that he'd not yet been arrested.
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Léon Quotes in The Dew Breaker
The The Dew Breaker quotes below are all either spoken by Léon or refer to Léon. 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 Dew Breaker (Circa 1967)
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Léon, the shoeshine man, wiped a tear from his eye, remembering his own son who was one of those men who roamed the night in denim uniforms and carried people away to their deaths. His son might have been one of those he’d emptied the slop jars on and who had shot in his direction in return, for a good Volunteer, it was said, should be able to kill his mother and father for the regime.
Even though Léon hated what his son did, he still had to let his boy come home now and then for the boy’s mother's sake and still had to acknowledge that maybe it was because of his boy that he'd not yet been arrested.
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