Part one of term paper
Towards the end of Edwidge Danticat's new novel The Farming of Bones, a man says "Famous men never truly die... It is only those nameless and faceless who vanish like smoke in the early morning air." The time is 1937, the place the island which Haiti and The Dominican Republic share. Through the eyes of the narrator, a Haitian woman named Ama ...

Part two of term paper
... in the neighboring country, but Amabelle's story serves to refute those words spoken about the nameless and faceless of the earth. In this book, they are remembered, and in her story they do have names and faces. The Farming of Bones is a term the Haitian field workers use to describe their life of cutting cane. While Amabelle is fortunate enough to be working as a household servant to a wealthy Dominican family, most of her friends toil for the sugar mill owners. They have left Haiti and come ...