Posted by Nonnie on May 14, 2000 at 00:26:44:

In Reply to: WHAT'S IT MEAN? DAYBREAKERS? posted by Mike Shaffer on May 06, 2000 at 12:16:01:

As I was reading this morning, I ran across a quote that made me think of your question, Mike. At the end of Chapter nine, Tye tells Red (the gent he knocked over with Dapple) to leave town because "I know men that'd bet you wouldn't live to see daybreak." Perhaps that's connected to the title? After all, these Sackett boys are always there to see daybreak, no matter what. And as they go along, less and less of the bad guys make it to daybreak. I've about twenty pages left to read so I don't know exactly what happens, but part of me wants the whole bad lot of them to never see daybreak (my, my, my, but we do have some perfectly awful villains in this one). And perhaps that's what the title means--only the Sacketts (and company) can be daybreakers because only they are good enough to live and build a 'new country.'

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