Quotes #4 (#5 two below this one)

Book: Brother. I'm Dying

Quote #1: Edwidge narrated, page 145 "Tante Denise died from a massive stroke the day after my uncle's eighteenth birthday, in February 2003. She was eighty-one years old. My father and I flew to Haiti for the Funeral."

I honestly don't know how Edwidge and her family deal with so much death and sickness. I chose this quote because It shows that her family has a history of death and it seems that almost all of her family members die or suffer of sickness. She has her father and her uncle to prove this point. They are both sick.

I can connect to this because my great aunt Ines died at the age of 80 in Trinidad. My mom and my brother flew down for the funeral. It shows that family is family and weather or not we're in another country we'll always show our respects.

Question #1:
Have you ever flown to another country for a family event?


Quote #2: Uncle Karl talking and Edwidge narrating, Page 157, " 'You'll see for yourself' Karl said, his face unreadable in profile. 'We're taking you to him now.' I wondered. Only a week after my father's diagosis was I being ushered to his beside to say good-bye? "

The significance of this quote is that Before that she was trying to make everyone smile by easing the moment with a joke because she didn't know they were taking her to the hospital, and when she found out she was going to see him her heart dropped with fear. I can imagine how she felt when she went from having a smile to having a fear that her loved one's life was lost.

I know exactly how she felt because once my brother fell on his skateboard and we were laughing but he wouldn't get up and his eyes were closed and we all thought something really bad had happened. My uncle made him wake up and was asking him all these questions about who he was and the date and time. I remember how funny the fall looked and then crying when he wouldn't get up. I knew I had to pick this quote when I read it because it reminded me so much of what had happened with my brother.

Question #2:
Has there every been a time in your life where you thought everything was okay but seconds after something made your heart sink?