Boom! Goes many shots that killed Haitians within a blink of an eye. The Farming of Bones tells the story of Amabelle who was a servant to the family of Señora Valencia. Her life was infringed by the horrific events dictated by Dictator Trujillo in order to massacre many Haitians. Haitians were forced over the border into Haiti. Many people went peacefully over the border, but thousands of people died because of the Parsley Massacre. The book is effective with the descriptions of the Parsley massacre, the psychological scars afterward, and the different social classes.
The violence throughout the book is very realistic to the pains that the Haitian experienced under Trujillo. Many of the Haitians would be forced out of the Dominican Republic …show more content…
After the massacre many people lost who they were and they felt empty. Amabelle felt the same way at the end of the novel as the traumatic events left a dramatic impact on her. People after going through such a traumatic event have many repercussions from it. They never recover from the horrific murders that occurred. Most people when they think of the repercussions of a terrible event, think of PTSD. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder includes living these traumatic events over and over. These events haunt many people’s dreams. They relived these memories daily. Other symptoms of PTSD is feeling guilt for the death that happened to others. Amabelle feels like this toward the end of the novel, as she believes she could have prevented Sebastian from going to the church (Danticat 249). Amabelle is suffering from these symptoms when she constantly has dreams of the people who were close to her. It was a scar that never was going to leave her life. An importance of all of this is that the Haitians were very unrestful after this event. Danticat again stresses the idea of the Haitians losing their identity. Threats from the country that they thought was home will no longer be their home. They had to build a new society in the Haiti, but that would be years down the road. The Haitians began to work on farms and trying to find new jobs to get their minds off
The violence throughout the book is very realistic to the pains that the Haitian experienced under Trujillo. Many of the Haitians would be forced out of the Dominican Republic …show more content…
After the massacre many people lost who they were and they felt empty. Amabelle felt the same way at the end of the novel as the traumatic events left a dramatic impact on her. People after going through such a traumatic event have many repercussions from it. They never recover from the horrific murders that occurred. Most people when they think of the repercussions of a terrible event, think of PTSD. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder includes living these traumatic events over and over. These events haunt many people’s dreams. They relived these memories daily. Other symptoms of PTSD is feeling guilt for the death that happened to others. Amabelle feels like this toward the end of the novel, as she believes she could have prevented Sebastian from going to the church (Danticat 249). Amabelle is suffering from these symptoms when she constantly has dreams of the people who were close to her. It was a scar that never was going to leave her life. An importance of all of this is that the Haitians were very unrestful after this event. Danticat again stresses the idea of the Haitians losing their identity. Threats from the country that they thought was home will no longer be their home. They had to build a new society in the Haiti, but that would be years down the road. The Haitians began to work on farms and trying to find new jobs to get their minds off