The Farming Of Bones Character Analysis

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Samuel Steinberg English 150 Friday class 7:00-9:40PM The Farming of Bones Second draft The Farming of Bones a novel by Ewidge Danticat is about a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic; its about her trials and tribulations from the death of her parents, to falling in love with Sebastian and to the Haitian massacre by the Dominicans. She tells the story in a very vibrant way to keep the reader enthralled in the story and the sadness of said truths throughout the novel going back to the massacre of 1937 in the Dominican Republic. Annabelle's haunted dreams, her love for Sebastian, and of her being Haitian in the Dominican Republic leads to her early demise and lose of life. Annabelle speaks of her parents as if the traumatic events of the death of her mother and father in the great hurricane that caused the river to swallow them throughout the novel; it causes her to have faulty judgment when coming down to life changing decisions. Annabelle…show more content…
Separated they are less of an obstacle for the cresting river” (52). This shows her obsession with her parent’s death. She also focused on the love of Sebastian way more then rewarded; Javier warned Annabelle when Javier told Annabelle “please listen to me”, you must leave this house immediately. I just heard this from some friends at the border. On the generalissimos orders, soldiers and civilians are killing Haitians. It may just a few hours before they reach the valley” (140). Annabelle responded by “I can not leave my man” (140). She should have exited way before this occurrence but she choose to give her life a risk for her man when he also knew that this time was coming they both in my opinion were the cause of their own

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