(Danticat, 3) But soon it was found that as soon as the motherless child moved to US to live with her mother after 12 years she found that life was much different and her skin color was to be blamed for that. However, the book starts off with a wonderful solace and tranquility where we find Sophie in a calm environment where “a flattened and drying daffodil was dangling off the little card that I had made my aunt Atie for Mother’s Day”. (Bell, 271-3) This is clearly seen in the text time and again. It could be summarized that racism is the result of having negative judgments, beliefs, and feelings towards certain identifiable groups. The parameters of racism states that humans are separated into various groups in the belief that some people are superior because they belong to a particular ethnic or national group. This racism is not only confined within the socio- economically backward section of the population but has crept into various strata of the society and institutions, no matter private or public, are no exceptions. It can well be stated that a completely color blind society is what that is most welcomed in a democratic form of government but despite every sort of constitutional rights and social enigma the curse of racism continues to dominate even the most developed and civilized states of the world. This is also a story where a girl under difficult circumstances moves into adulthood to distinguish between freedom and discrimination. Here in the story we find the author’s view of this new culture is realized and exhaled in the alignment of the existing menace of racial discrimination.
(Danticat, 34) The parameters of life are well developed with the arrival into a new land, the US. It can be stated that in this text the Haitian culture is narrated in a sensitive and insightful new voice where the narrator Sophie mentions that “I come from a place where breath, eyes and memory are one, a place where you carry your past like the hair on your head”. Thus it becomes mandatory to understand the different aspects of racial discrimination in view of the story and beyond. It would be narrated and discussed in the paper the basic aspects of racism and the elements that are investigated and represented in the text by the author. This is the story of discrimination that details the life of a black immigrant girl. The focal point of this paper is to evaluate and analyze the aspects of racism and racial discrimination in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory, published by Vintage in May 18, 1998.