Analyzing The Haitian Tale 'Ghosts'

I chose the Haitian tale called (Ghosts) because I don’t know much about the country and I was curious to learn something of their culture.

Ghosts

The text tells about a person called Pascal Dorien that lives in Bel Air, a city compared to Bagdad – Iraq. It describes the violence the people are exposed to, and mainly the children.

Pascal Dorien’ s parents own a restaurant where fried pigeon is the specialty, but, against their wish, they had to supply pigeons to a Haitian ritual where boys had to drink called milk-Malta-pigeon-blood. At a certain time, the establishment had been occupied by gangs organized and manipulated by influential people, which make their profit using boys to sell, the so called, white man’s powder.

Pascal Dorien
had a brother that moved out from parent’s house, because he was a police officer, and it was incompatible with the gang in the neighborhood.

Pascal dreamed with his own radio show, where the country would know details about the gang´s leaders, and people would change their routine, in order to follow his show. Sadly, his idea for the show was stolen, and his friend Max was fired after pointed that out to the person who stole the idea from Pascal; the gang’s leader, Tiye, knew about that…

Tiye, then, attacked the radio station and Pascal was arrested as being responsible for the attack. At the police station Pascal suffers as being tortured to talk about the attack, and at the same time, the police officers were trying to accuse someone for the crimes, not yet explained, the charges against Pascal were getting more and more complex!

After Tiye have revealed he had proofs against several officials and his, supposed, contacts at the Miami Herald, Pascal was released. Later, at the restaurant, Pascal meets Tiye and his bodyguards, and realizes he had the protection of the crime mastermind…