Danticat's The Farming of Bones and George Orwell's Animal Farm

Purpose: To understand how Haiti became what it is and all the trials it has endured

The current state of Haiti is one of despair from the economic oppression, devastating natural

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is, first and foremost, a political satire warning against the pursuit of utopian desires through unjust and oppressive means. Operating under the pretense of an animal fable, Orwell disparages the use of political power to poach personal freedom. He effectively alerts his readers to the dangerous price that can accompany the so-called “pursuit of progress”. And he illuminates how governments acting under the guise of increasing independence often do just the opposite: increase oppression and sacrifice sovereignty. While the cautionary theme Orwell provides proves widely applicable, in reality his novel focuses on one tale of totalitarian abuse: Soviet Russia. The parallels between the society Orwell presents in his Animal Farm and the Soviet Union – from the Russian revolution to Stalin’s supremacy – are seemingly endless. Manor Farm represents Tsarist Russia, Animalism compares to Stalinism, and Animal Farm, with the pig Napoleon at its helm, clearly symbolizes Communist Russia and Joseph Stalin. But Orwell does more than simply align fiction with fact. He fundamentally attacks Soviet Russia at its core. And in so doing he reveals how the Communist Party simply replaced a bad system with a worse one, overthrowing an imperial autocracy for a totalitarian dictatorship. This essay will demonstrate that Orwell’s Animal Farm is

Haiti is one of the more indigent countries in the world; the country also holds a low economic status. Over time Haiti’s economy grew gradually at around 2.3

Elie Wiesel in Night and Snowball from Animal Farm are very similar characters because they were victimized by tyrants and used as scapegoats, but they are also unique and individual characters because Elie knew he was being taken advantage of and Snowball did not. Animal Farm is written by George Orwell, and it is about a farm of animals that take over the farm. Napoleon, a large pig, slowly takes away food and supplies from the other animals until he starts walking on two feet and becomes a “human.” Because of him Snowball is expelled from the farm and acts as a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong on the farm. Night is an autobiography written by Elie Wiesel, and in it Elie tells the story of he was taken from his home and put into a concentration camp under the control of Adolf Hitler.

The book “Krik Krak” written by Edwidge Danticat contains a story of Danticat in the past and how could she became a famous author today. She was born Haiti and a survivor who escaped oversea to the United States. Danticat’s past is painful and horrible but it influenced her present. The Haitian politics repressed certain group of women and the fear surrounded them everyday. To find her own freedom and her rights, Danticat got on board then arrived at New York. The racist weighed on her but she didn’t give up on the path that she chose. She learned English and had a dream to become a writer but that also an issue for Danticat. The Haitian writer often killed but it didn’t quench Danticat’s desire to keep their history

The government in Haiti has been overwhelmed over the last two centuries with a plethora of

The economics of Haiti has deceased in the last 4 years after the devastating earthquake that struck it 4 years ago. The Haiti economy has become very poor and one of the poorest country in the south, Central America and Caribbean region making it ranked 24 out of 29 countries in this area and its overall score is below average. Haiti’s economic freedom is 48.1 making it economy the 151st freest country while in the last several years Declines in the management of government spending, freedom from corruption, and labor freedom make its overall score 2.6 points lower than last year. Recovering from the disastrous earthquake in 2010 with the support of the U.S. recovering efforts “Haiti’s post-earthquake reconstruction efforts continue,

This free market system allows low labor costs and tariff-free access to the US for many of its exports. However, Haiti’s economy as struggled for decades. Within the last 7 years, Haiti has experienced substantial roadblocks on the path to economic growth: poverty, natural disasters, weak infrastructure, such as access to electricity, deforestation, soil erosion and inadequate supplies of potable water. Economic recovery has been impeded by the 2010 earthquake and 2012 hurricanes which adversely affected agricultural production and slowed public capital

Brief history… Haiti takes up about 1/3 of the land of the island Hispaniola, neighboring the Dominican Republic. The whole Island was once under the control of Spain in 1942 after Columbus made an appearance. In the 17th century, France colonized on part of the Island and renamed it Saint-Dominigue. It wasn’t until 1803…300 years, tens of thousands of African slaves, and one hierarchal social system later, did this chunk of land become the independent republic, Haiti. (1).

Christopher Columbus came upon a large island while he was sailing the western region by the Atlantic Ocean that was later known as the Caribbean which was December 5, 1492. Columbus eventually settled on this island and claimed it for the Spanish Crown. In 1625, the French took control of what was called Saint-Domingue (Lawless,2018), then what we know today to be called Haiti was started in 1660. Once upon a time Haiti was one of the most wealthiest French colonies, they became so wealthy from the amount of sugar and coffee they produced. It was being sold everywhere, one of the most popular goods sold back then. When the French Revolution started in 1789, the people of Haiti began to rebel in 1791 which later came to Haiti becoming an independent

Christopher Columbus discovered Haiti in 1492 during his inaugural foray into the New World. The island that Haiti now shares with the Dominican Republic was dubbed ‘La Isla Espanola,’ shortened to Hispaniola. Despite this Spanish moniker, the western side of the island soon became an enclave for French Huguenots that had migrated to Hispaniola from the northwest side, via the island of Tortuga. The French took advantage of the Spanish capital, Santo Domingo, being all the way on the other side of the island, and they managed to established a vital trading post in their new territory they called Saint-Domingue, after the Spanish capital. By 1697, a treaty had been signed and the western portion of Hispaniola officially belonged to the French, who made the territory flourish. The French made Hispaniola thrive, producing sixty percent of the world’s coffee supply by the mid-18th century, utilizing land that the Spanish had neglected until the French took over (http://www.haiti.org). As was the norm in colonial Caribbean island territories, slavery was the main source of labor in Haiti, and slavery practices were especially brutal here, as the majority of black slaves did not survive past the age of reproduction, as

People respond to control and power differently for various reasons, however, one of the main reasons is based on their personality; their confidence and intelligence. In, Animal Farm by George Orwell, confidence and intelligence is a big factor for why certain animals obtained power and control and why other ones did not. People with confidence and intelligence are likely to gain most of the control and power. People with little intelligence, but lots of confidence are more likely to have some power or work underneath the leader. People with intelligence, but no confidence seem to have no power at all and shy away from it. Both intelligence and confidence are needed for someone to take total power. Therefore, the amount of confidence and intelligence a person has will decide how they respond to control and power.

Haiti has historically been the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, suffering from mismanagement of resources and corrupt rule by the elites. The rule of the Duvaliers had concentrated the wealth of the state in the Duvalier family and its political allies, the Duvalierists. This had been the way Haiti was always run since its independence in 1804: the wealthy, French-speaking elite ruling as an oligarchy or dictatorship over the poor, Creole-speaking masses. The events that occurred from 1986 to 1995 sought to change Haitian society forever in a transition from predatory dictatorship to popular democracy. However, that path would not be smooth, as the

For the most part, the interaction between the colonizers of Haiti—the Spanish and the French—was negative, and lastingly so. Haiti has remained a turbulent and impoverished landscape. Social and economic indicators remain doggedly low, year after year. Haiti, although technically independent as of 1804, has never been able to support itself. There is a lot of heartfelt sympathy for Haiti, and the hope is that the legacy of colonization is not unending fate. But it will take a lot of work to get Haiti to a place of true freedom and independence, and sometimes outside help, however well intentioned, only unwittingly fuels the legacy.