Dew Breaker And Animal Farm Essay

The Dew Breaker and Animal Farm are two distinctly unrelated stories, and it may seem difficult to form any connection between the two. But, surprisingly, there are many links between both stories. The Dew Breaker, written by Edwidge Danticat, is an interconnected collection of short stories. These short stories are not positioned in chronological order, and, for the most part, have different characters and settings. As the story develops, continuously moving between New York City in the present day and Haiti in the mid-1900s, readers learn about “dew breakers.” Also known as the “Tonton macoutes,” they were essentially torturers who killed people who opposed the dictatorship in mid-twentieth Haiti, which was the Duvalier regime (“The Duvalier Dynasty 1957-1986”).The various characters in the short stories have somewhat of a connection to a dew breaker in the history of
This is more or less the same as it was before the animals rebel against the farm’s owner, Mr. Jones. One of the pigs, Squealer, promotes Napoleon’s leadership by giving false and biased information to the other animals. He metaphorically represents “propaganda.” One instance where Squealer is against the truth is during “One night… [where] there [is] a loud crash in the yard, and the animals [rush] out of their stalls… Where the Seven Commandments [are] written, there lay[s] a ladder broken… Squealer… [is] sprawling beside it, and near at hand lay[s] a lantern, a paintbrush, and an overturned pot of white paint” (Orwell 108). What actually happens is that Squealer changes one of the commandments so that the pigs can do what they want to do, but he does not want the other animals to know. Most of the ignorant animals do not know what the lantern, paintbrush, and white paint mean, but the truth here is still an enemy to