Zombies In Haiti

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Zombies in Haiti The story titled “The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead” goes into the country of Haiti through a man named Wade Davis who is an ethnobotanist from Harvard University. He travels to Haiti to study the mysteries that surround the practice of zombification in the country. Throughout the story there are many times when the story deviates off of the main focus of Davis’ assignment, and goes into depth about a certain subject that he might have experienced. The very beginning of the story opens up already in the country of Haiti, but it takes place before Davis is even involved in any kind of research there. It opens with the return of a man with the last name Narcisse who says he became a zombie the night he was buried in the ground. He returns to his sister and expresses who he is and recalls what it was like the day he died, and the night he was buried and reawakened. This deviation away from the main story line of Davis’ research is a good use of background information. This part of the article allows you to understand what exactly Davis is going into, and the specific example of zombification that was able to get someone into the country to help determine how the process of zombification comes about. The story then goes through the process of how Davis came to be chosen to explore these claims of zombies in Haiti. We find out a little bit about the man who mentored Davis, and some of the pupil’s experiences in the research field. From there we begin the story of Davis’ time spent in Haiti learning the culture and the practices of voodoo. Another informational deviation from the story comes right before Davis meets with Marcel Pierre about the zombification drug. Before he meets with this contact, the story briefly dives into some of the other scientists who have tried to accomplish the discovery of this drug. It gives us three names of people

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