Name Essays (1365 words) - Genocides, Racism, Murder,

Name: Professor: Course: Date: Representations of War and Genocide Edwidge Danticat's Farming of the Bones portrays genocide and massacre in a number of ways. This essay concentrates on reasons why in history, the Parsley massacre is not known as genocide but rather a massacre. Massacre is defined as the act of mass murdering of people because of a variety of reasons; it is indiscriminately killing of a large number of people and especially the less powerful, less power and those that are not rebellious. Massacre can also be referred as an act of destruction where not only people are slaughtered by their properties are destroyed as well. Genocide is an act of killing people from a certain ethnic group or discriminatory killing of people. Therefore, in History, Parsley massacre is called massacre because Parsley was about mass murdering of helpless and less fortunate people due to a number of reasons. The author of The Farming Bones, Danticat combines history and fictions to represent war and genocide. This book relates to the historical fict ion that focuses on 1937 massacre that took place in the Dominican Republic under the ruling of dict ator, Rafael Trujillo (Upchurch ). In this case, the intention of the author is to use both fiction and history to enable them to understand the novel and its themes. The part focus on why does the author mention genocides in history as far back as the Armenian genocide but do not mention the Parsley massacre and factors that contribute to the absence Parsley massacre in history. There are various reasons why the author mentions genocides in history but does not mention the Parsley massacre. First, the author feels that history has forgotten the incident that led to the deaths of people from her country. History mentions events such as Armenian genocide, Holocaust, Rwandan genocide and many other events that led loss lives. These extermination historical events can be referred to the genocides since the certain minority groups the targets. The structure of the narrative is meant is to ensure that international community profoundly understands levels of injustices that were influenced by ethnicity and racism and what historical traumatic events affected both men, women and children. Danticat felt that victims of genocides such as Armenian genocides and others and their sufferings are valued are recognized and valued as part of history while Parsley massacre victims and their sufferings are not recognized, which is an another form of injustice that they suffer. For example, from the book, the quotes "Sometimes the people in the fields, when they're tired and angry, they say we're an orphaned people," he said, "They say we are the Burt crud at the bottom of the pot. They say some people don't belong anywhere and that's us. I say we are a group of vwayaje, wayfarers. This is why you had to travel this far to meet me, because this is what we " (Danticat 56) represent how event increases the number of orphans. The author attempts to mention genocides in history to help memorize the how thousands of people used to suffer due to discriminatory reasons. By telling the story, the author aims at and creating awareness of the genocide that took place in history. The death of Joel and the facts there is no funeral for him represent the kinds of incidences that took place during genocides mentioned in history. The statements "No funeral for Joel," he said, "I wanted to bury him in our own land where he was born, I did, but he was too heavy to carry so far. I buried him where he did in the ravine. I buried him in a field of lemongrass, my son. "He lowered his head, letting the tobacco mix drop to his chest. "He was one of those children who grew like weeds in the fields, my son. Didn't need nobody or nothing, but he I'd love his father. It wasn't ceremonious the way I buried him, I know. No clothes, no coffin, nothing between him and the dry ground. I wanted to give him back to the soil t he way his mother passed him to me on the first day of his"( Danticat 108). This