Amabelle Case

Javier warned Amabelle and everyone there to leave the country go back to Haiti while it's safe to leave peacefully and leave while you have your two feet. These shaded thoughts of Amabelle lead her to death in a horrible fashion, she thought of her parent's death to much that it invaded her mind like a virus "the water rises above my father's head, my mother releases his neck, the current carrying her beyond his reach. Separated they are less of an obstacle for the cresting river" (52). This shows her obsession with her parent's death. She also focused on the love of Sebastian way more then rewarded; Javier warned Amabelle when Javier told Amabelle "please listen to me", you must leave this house immediately. I just heard this from some friends at the border. On the generalissimos orders, soldiers and civilians are killing Haitians. It may just a few hours before they reach the valley" (140). Amabelle responded by "I can not leave my man" (140). She should have exited way before this occurrence but she choose to give her life a risk for her man when he also knew that this time was coming they both in my opinion were the cause of their own deaths.

Amabelle's thoughts inhibited her existence by the love Sebastian and the death of her parents. This maintained Annabelle in permanent denial status of her true surrounding in the Dominican Republic. These events depicted in above passages show how she let her love derail her life, and how she tormented her with the past death of her mother and father assume control over strain of thought. The death of Kongo's son was a warning for her; then Javier contributed to the warning that she was going to die if she stayed in someone else's country where she was not wanted. This means that Amabelle loved Sebastian so much she would rather risk her own life to be with him eternally." Farming of Bones" Essays. 6 Dec. 2011.

Amabelle's lover, Sebastien, works in Ignacio's sugar cane field, a brutal job known to workers as ''farming the bones'' because of its killing, exhausting harshness. This is of course how the title came about. The workers of the cane fields did not get to keep all of the profits for themselves the cane fields and the money along with it belonged to the Dominican Republic. These workers were paid a small part of this; this is how they were able to survive. Both Amabelle and Sebastian were both employed.

Amabelle has a pleasant but distant relationship with the family she serves, and the novel juxtaposes her moments in their home with her conversations with other Haitian workers in the cane fields, as they slowly realize that Dominican dictator Trujillo is against them, and that their lives are worthless to those who hire them. This tension increases when a cane worker is accidentally killed by Duarte's poor driving, and he is not brought to account for the

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