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What Is The Theme Of Farming Of Bones By Elie Wiesel

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Throughout our history, there have been many horrific genocides. This includes but is not limited to the Holocaust, Rwandan Genocide, Parsley massacre, Cambodian Genocide, and many more. This genocide resulted in many deaths, but it also had a major effect on the survivors. Although some people were able to survive these genocides, a part of them will always be dead inside them. This is because someone’s identity is affected by the memories they experienced. This is displayed in two books. In these two books, there are two characters who are survivors of two major genocides known as, The Holocaust and The Parsley Massacre. These characters are perfect examples of how identity and memory are hand and hand with each other. In 2006 Elie Wiesel …show more content…

Throughout the story, we see a horrific side of life that people like Elie hate to go through. While people were in this concentration camp people's identity changed. This is because people's identity is based on the memories they have been through, meaning identity and memory go hand in hand with each other. This is displayed throughout the whole story. Edwidge Danticat published a book called Farming of Bones. Farming of the Bones is a story of a girl named Amabelle who survived The Parsley Massacre. The book describes the struggles Amabelle goes through as a Haitian woman. Although Amabelle survived this tragedy, the memories she went through had a major effect on her identity. This is displayed in both Night and Farming of …show more content…

Jewish people were excluded from public life on September 15th, 1935 when the Nuremberg Laws were issued. These laws also stripped German Jews of their citizenship and their right to marry Germans (“11 Facts About the Holocaust”). This is a great example of Discrimination, something Elie had to live through. An example of preparation is The Nazis constructed over 44,000 incarceration sites, which included detention centers, forced-labor camps, and killing centers. They functioned independent of any judicial review, and torture, starvation, and mass murder were frequent (“11 Facts About the Holocaust”). This example of preparation is something Elie had to live through. Elie and his family were taken and separated into concentration camps. An example of how identity and memory go hand in hand is when Elie realizes because of her experiences and memories in the concentration camp, her identity changed without her even really knowing about it. Elie Wiesel states, “I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I

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