The Farming Of Bones Analysis

Pain is deeper than all thought; laughter is higher than all pain. The novel “The farming of Bones” by Edwidge Danticat is a fictional story based on real events of the Haitian massacre. This story depicts a very intense picture of how the conditions of living as a Haitian in the Dominican Republic were terrifying. The people who lived through the Haitian massacre paved better ways for future generations so that they could have better and more comfortable lives. Most Haitians crossed the border from Haiti to the Dominican Republic to gain better lives and gain a source of income to support their families. The Haitians thought that the Dominican
Republic would be their way out of misery and poverty not knowing that they were walking
Each person has their different ways and methods of surviving the massacre. Yves survived the massacre physically but was finding it hard to cope mentally with all the friends that he has lost in the “kout kouto- the stabbing.” He escaped back to Haiti with Amabelle, back to his father’s land. He kept himself occupied with planting beans since planting is all he had known how to do majority of his life. On the other hand, Amabelle kept holding on to the past memories she had of Sabastien- the love of her love-, his sister and the hopes that they weren’t killed in the massacre. She did all she could to convince herself that they were still alive “…make them lie down on the ground, and shoot them with rifles…No, I do not believe it for myself… (241)” In the overall sense the people who survived did not gained a better life because they were alive knowing that they would never get to see their dead loved ones and they also knew that the manner in which they died was very degrading and cruel. They had to suffer the torturous beatings from the
In October 1937, Rafael Trujillo the Dominican President ordered the execution of the Haitian people living in the borderlands between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Later this was known to be the Parsley Massacre but known as “El Corte” in the Dominican Republic. About 20,000 people were killed approximately within 5 days. From 2nd October 1937 to 8th October 1937, Haitians were killed with guns, machetes, clubs and knives by Dominican troops, civilians and local political authorities. Whereas the Rwandan genocide began in the year 1994 and it lasted approximately 100 days. 20% of the entire country’s population was killed that is approximately 500,000 to 1,000,000 people died. The two separate occurrences were both due to the fight for land and