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Analysis Of I Picked Ghosts By Edwidge Danticat

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I picked Ghosts written by Edwidge Danticat because this story shared precious life experience about how to live in a dangerous place surrounding with a brutal gang look alike “Ghosts”, but still had a positive passion surviving and behaving with those communities. This fiction written by Edwidge Danticat (2008) came with the guy named Pascal who grew up in the Bel-Air, the place where the gang wars, gun fires, drugs and brutal neighborhood take placed (p.1). However, he had prospered family that having a big restaurant as the story said “Pascal’s parents were shop owners and restaurateurs in Bel Air. They had a slightly larger yard than most of their crammed-in neighbors,” (Danticat E, 2008, p.2). He also had a great job at one of the best
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