General Sun My Brother

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The book “General Sun, My Brother” by Jacques Alexis is a Metaphorical literary work in which the use of Character development is conspicuously applied to represent, compare and make a continuity of the plot. The author uses Hilarion Hilarius as the main character and the book revolves around his life. The author narrates the lives of peasants through Hilarion life and all other characters are developed relating to him. The book has several other literary styles used; however, these easy highlights character developments, personification and their use in the book. The author uses character development to campaign for communism and its ideologies of eliminating social classes to give all persons access to basic human rights. Initially, Hilarion does not know about communism and he actually opposes it when it is introduced to him. Communism is first introduced to him by the development of the character, Roumel , who despite his political social status shares the same cell with Hilarion who is a peasant. The author uses Roumel to win the heart of …show more content…

These characters are developed to have common traits with the historical persons. Jean- Michel was a medical student and a communist, traits that are common to those of the author, Jacques Alexis. Pierre Round’s character traits and life experiences in the book closely match those of Jacues Roumain who was arrested and later went into exile. The character Paturault has a common life with Elie Lescot who in real life became the president of Haiti in 1946. These characters whose traits are the same as those of real historical persons have been used in the book to create and portray what the author was viewing at his time and wanted to address. The massacre in the book that evict Hilarion from Dominica is a representation of the historical massacre that was committed to Haitian workers in 1946 by the Dominican

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