Farming Of The Bones Sparknotes

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Life of Amabelle, in Farming of the Bones by, Edwidge Danticat, is a sorrowful, dragging lifestyle. She is a strong women for what she goes through, just for the ones that she loves dearly. Amabelle wakes and attends to things like hers parent’s old work as a young teen. She works her whole life as a handmaid for Senora Valencia, and also lives with her. As a young Haitian girl, living in the Dominican Republic, she is willing to do anything to be in a stable environment and in Dominican Republic, with the ones she loves. To find her happy place, she goes to her dreams and to her memories that she once lived in and no longer has some of the things that she had in her past life. The life of Amabelle Desir has been a cycle of losing loved ones …show more content…

“Births and deaths were my parents’ work. I never thought I would help at a birth myself until the screams rang through the valley that morning, one voice like a thousand glasses breaking” Senora Valencia’s home gave her a chance to start work and once she started, she never stopped, and one of the reasons were from her parent’s death. “My mother crosses herself three times and looks up at the sky before she climbs on my father’s back. The water reaches up to Papa’s waist as soon as he steps in. Once he is in the river, he flinches, realizing that he has made a grave mistake… ‘Unless you want to die,’ One of them said, ‘you will never see those people again.’” (pg 51), (pg 52). This was the death of her beloved parents, they were killed in the river as she watched and couldn’t do anything about it. This was a dream of hers that keeps recurring even though her parents’ death happened years ago. She dreams of this every so often because it is a past that will be apart of her forever. When she looks up to the sky, it is representing her next destiny that she went to. It is showing Amabelle that they are okay and are resting in peace. Amabelle’s parents’ death was a mistake so when her father does step into the river, he does realize it was a mistake, but it is one that can’t be taken back. “I had been living inside dreams that would not go away, the memories of an orphaned child. When the present itself was truly frightful, I had perhaps purposely chosen not to see it. She is constantly trying to run away from something and it’s her dreams that remind her of all of the bad things in her life that have happened. But when she doesn’t dream, she has these memories that will then remind her about past and fright her with more

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