Both death and life function as major themes in SEEING THINGS SIMPLY . How does painting work with those two ideas ? According to the character , the painting serves as a memoir for her as shown by the excerpt , ``to have something to leave behind even after she is gone " Through her paintings life was preserved but as her real reason for making the painting unfolds , it foreshadows death . 7 . Danticat places the traditions of Haiti and Haitian culture at odds with...











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