First Reaction for the Story, "Ghosts"
Choose one of the topics below and write a response in paragraphs (not an essay). Write a minimum of 150 words and a maximum of 200 words. Include at least one direct reference to the story through the use of a short quotation but do not quote more than 20 words total in your answer. Link to "Ghosts" full text at NewYorker.com
1.Write about something that surprised you, angered you, delighted you, or evoked any strong reaction as you were reading. Write about anything that stays on your mind after reading.
2. Explore a social or ethical issue raised in the writing. Judge the behaviour of the characters or the views of the author. Are they right or wrong in your opinion?
3. Does this work confront or confirm your personal beliefs? Explain.
NOTE: Please bring a word processed copy of your comments to class on Wednesday, October 5.
29 comments:
I am delighted by the richly sensual description in Edwidge Danticat’s story, “Ghosts.” Those “few Protestant and Catholic churches, vodou temples, restaurants, bakeries, and dry cleaners, even Internet cafés” paints us a picture of Bel Air, “the Baghdad of Haiti.” Who could forget Tiye’s “shiny metal hooks”? Danticat helped me to see the world of Bel Air. I imagined the pain of having your hands handcuffed behind you, of someone blowing smoke into your eyes, of vomiting onto the front of your shirt.
The gang members angered me, but also evoked my sympathy. They were, after all, true orphans. Victims of the extreme violence of the paramilitary, of gangs, they grew up with only each other as family. That Pascal will enter this world makes his dream of a radio show bittersweet. He will become a “phantom” one day, too.
Most of all, I remember Danticat’s final definition of ghosts and the way her sentence ends: “because they were poor.”
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After reading this remarkable story “Ghosts” by Edwidge Danticate, I could not imagine what it would be like to be a Haitian people. The article shows how corruption can affect a city and their people. Haiti`s reality is represented through socio-economic devastation, criminality, a weak and corrupt government, a frustrated population and uncertain future for the international intervention support. Pascal`s parents wanted the best for him, family and his brother. This poor guy Pascal was unable to do anything and many of the gang members had known about Pascal`s plan. They teased him, saying, “Man they stole your idea”.
It is awful to imagine the writer`s description of the religions ritual, “slitting the pigeon`s throat” and using these pigeons’ blood to make the Malta beverage. It was also a cruel picture, because pigeons represent the symbol of peace from many cultures. The beautiful birds became victims of the cruel ritual of young Haitians living in the slums.
However, what I believe is that with more power comes more corruption; and most people in Haiti have been “historically poor”. Unfortunately, it is a fact about poor countries because “they were out of choice”.
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In a short story “Ghosts,” written by Edwidge Danticat, Haiti is a picture of a third world country ravaged by poverty and corruption. It is not surprising to see Ethiopia, Somalia and Haiti having similar problems dealing with thugs or armed gangs. I was disgusted to see a government unable to contain the problem and they got sucked into it.
The policemen in the story along with the investigators up to judges were part of a crumbling system. They were agents of a notorious Baz Benin gang headed by Tiye. It started operating in the streets and has climbed in the government ladder, making their presence felt by citizens.
Additionally, Pascal was an ordinary journalist struggling to meet both ends in a country where survival was a way of living. While working peacefully, he was arrested along with strings of allegations unknown to him. He was imprisoned, manhandled, shamed and later was thrown in his house like a piece of rag.
It’s really disturbing to see Haiti like a house on fire. Pascal and his family were living under the mercy of a gang. Tiye said, “Don’t worry, as long as I’m here, nothing will happen to us tonight.”
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Poverty, gang and corruption are three tags of a sick society. The short story “Ghost” by Edwidge Danticat pictures in mind this deed very clearly and delightfully. It is easy to imagination a brutal neighborhood (Bel Air) where the main character of the story “Pascal Dorien” and his family lived, “the Baghdad of Haiti”. The problem of the society like this is not only to be poor materially, but also is lack of education and institution that creates a fertile field for cultivating crime, hate, anger and murder. The most part of gang members are children who lost parents and live alone in a lawless, overpopulate city.
The gangs are strong weapon in the hands of small group of powerful persons. Businessmen and politicians angered me because they use gangs “to swell the rank of political demonstrations when a crisis is needed and having them withdraw when calm is required.”
It is unbelievable to live in a neighborhood as Bel Air and lead a small business without to be involved in some gang business. They intervene in the private life of the local people sabotaging their business then with a symbolic behavior demonstrate their superiority to intimidate the persons. (199 Words)
After reading the wonderful short story “Ghosts” by Edwidge Danticat, it’s hard to even
think about how difficult it is for Haitian’s to live in such a corrupt society, and suffer all
the torture they go through. This story showed the corruption in the Haitian society, and the justice system. When Pascal was getting questioned they used such cruel methods “They threw freezing water in his face. Panicked, he tried to rise from the chair, but several hands shoved him back down” “During his questioning, he was repeatedly punched on the back of the neck.” It was really difficult for me to think how could someone go through all that torture and not say anything after and not even take a stand for themselves. Pascal was given no chance to justify himself.
Something else that invoked me was after being falsely accused and just being dumped after being brutally beaten up, not once did he try to fight for himself or take action, or ask for compensation. This shows that police and the justice system can treat people the way they want to. “That they made a mistake” “another voice answered” “he was dumped in front of his parents’ restaurant at ten that night”
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Dandicat portrays vividly the reality of Haiti society. This brutal truth also belongs to other many countries, and it’s repeated through human history. Pascal, the innocent boy, who dreamed to make a difference “becoming the king of the radio journalist”, is suddenly incriminated in an assault and a murder. Meanwhile, Pascal is tortured at the police station discovers that “there was no difference” between the corrupted police and Baz Benin gang, who committed the crime. Actually, Tiye and the gang had acted in solidarity with Pascal. They operate as a brotherhood. Tiye has power over the authority due the supposed “slew records” he has; the reason why all of them came free.
I ask who is worse between the police and the Baz Benin? In a broken society consumed by poverty, and privations; chaos is the King. In the midst of chaos corruption is the law of the power and power is controlled by dirty money.
Alpha and Omega in this story are the beverages for initiation for new a life state. First the blood pigeon cocktail drank to ceremony “first sexual encounter.” Second hopelessly, the beers that Tiye and Pascal swallowed in a baptism for a new “Ghost” association.
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Reading the story "Ghosts" by Edwidge Danticat left a deep impression on my mind. This story touches my mind and soul, whose country and people have been sacrificed by ambitious powerful countries. I imagine my country's streets with little orphan sellers screaming with their shrill voices to sell their goods. How easily war leaves orphans on streets , and how easily as Danticat says "ambitious businessmen and politicians used them to swell the ranks of political demonstrations, ...", and how easily they get involved in the drug trafficking , more being users than sellers. I am wondering who are responsible for their crimes: politicians, businessmen, government, societies, their faiths, or themselves. I think with the presence of a devoted and friendly family children grow normally , even in a corruptive society. The story "Ghosts" shows the struggle of Pascal's parents to sustain an ideal family. Of course we can see the result as creative minds and seeking abilities of Pascal and Jules to gain a better life. Tic and spasm relapse on Pascal's father's face , decision to sell the business and repeated Jules phone calls are the sensual and inspiring points in the story. These points teach us understand the value of our family's members when they are alive and with us, understand the value of a government whose people have their own rights.
After reading the incredible story “Ghosts” by Edwidge Danticat, I could imagine how
terrible people live there. The story shows how weak and corruption is the society in
Haitian. I can imagine the story in clear version. The brutal truth still is in other countries.
Only god knows how many people suffer around the world, but they can’t say any thing
against the brutal government because it led them in big trouble. Just like the main
character in the story “Pascal” After being falsely accused by the group of Baz Benin
and police, and beaten him up he couldn’t even fight against them. He knew that he has
to give up or else he would be in a trouble because they have the power to do anything.
the society has several serious issues, such as lack of education, lack of money, or lack
or anything like that would put them in a bad condition. It’s really sad to see that gangs
can control the society like Pascal because I remember that Tiye said “don’t worry, as
long as I am here, nothing will happen to us tonight.”
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Reading the short story, “Ghost”, written by Edwidge Danticat , made me feel devastated especially, “slitting the pigeon’s throat” and mixed the blood into “Carnation” called Malta drink. I imagined the pain of the pigeon “still gyrating on the ground”. Also, it saddened me that the pigeons are a “symbol of peace”, and now they are brutally treated.
The gang members disheartened me, but I also empathized with them. Most of them were true orphan, and were deported from the USA and Canada. Unfortunately, they were homeless and helpless, which made them join the gang. In return, the gang provided them with shelter, food, and luxuries in life.
Furthermore, it disappointed me that Pascal did not have control over his own life ever since Tiye helped Pascal when he was in jail, even though he was innocent. Danitcat ends the “Ghost” by saying that one day everyone is going to die because of violence, abandonment and desolation.
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“That’s it? No revenge? What the!” That’s how I felt after reading short story, “Ghosts.” I’m sure that’s how you felt after reading the story because at the end of the story, I was hoping he would somehow join Tiye’s gang, Bez Benin to be an undercover writer and writes a story of how cruel is to survive in a gangsters’ life.
Because the setting is set on a gangster, I was hoping to be more violent rather than a subtle feeling after Pascal is arrested and releases after the interrogation. Even though Tiye blackmails some police to get him released.
Instead, he thinks up another segment on a lost limb for the radio, and he can relate to the lost limb to a society that they live in, how “they were used, then abandoned . . . and they were poor.”
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I am delighted by the ray of light shining encouragement on the children, to still stand up for their beliefs in Edwidge Danticat’s story, “Ghosts”. Hundreds of middle-school children wrote such things as, “It’s not polite to shoot at funeral processions” and, “I am happy to have turned in my weapons. What about you?” It gives a sense of evangelistic hope to make their “brutal neighborhood” a better place. Who could forget the “former street children who couldn’t remember even having lived in a house?”
The violent approach by the police with their extreme punishments angered me: “Between the smoke, the vomit, and the water, he felt as though he were drowning”, shows a broken judicial system in which torture is normal. The terrifying violence that was endured was “a great injustice” to the youth and the people in Haiti. I imagined the suffering of losing their parents and young boys drifting from being sellers to users of “the white man’s powder”. What is etched in my mind is the pain of what the vulnerable children that are now “gangsters” have endured.
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After having read Edwidge Danticat’s story, “Ghosts”, I got mixed feelings. The author knows Haitian realities very well, and she wants to show hardships of living there; lawlessness, corruption, and fear which prevail in the country. However, she uses too many bright colors, simple comparisons, and pathetic clichés; for example, “lost limbs,” or “Tiye’s gums were bright red, as though he … had been eating raw meat.” After a couple of pages, I began to treat it as a horror movie where there were a lot of blood, tomato juice, and dead bodies, plastic dummies, but it did not touch my soul and heart.
On the other side, the story made me wonder. Is poverty an excuse of disasters occurring in the country? And. Where is a border of man's responsibility for his words and actions? “You wanted to know what it’s like for us, … I just thought I’d give you a taste.”
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After reading “ghosts” by Edwidge Danticat, I could see the whole story in my mind which comes from a good description. In the story the police made me angry who were involved in “highly incriminating drug-related from the lowest street cop to Supreme Court judge.” Even if this point mentioned as a rumor in the story, I heard it many times in different places of the world. I can’t believe that how power can influence people’s life. Usually governments and cops are in the most powerful level in our society to govern and help people, but in this case gangs, “Tiye,” are in power too.
Moreover, I feel sorry for those young men who collapsed by deciding to join a violent group, “gangs”. Mostly, they are from poor countries, but I knew many people around me that released from hard life situation by choosing a right way, struggling and working to prepare their needs. So can we explain gangs as potato catches and lazy people who don’t want to use their brain and energy in their muscles?
Over all, this was a true story which is not just applies in Bel Air, you can see, read, and hear thousands of these story on TV, Newspapers, and radio which Pascal was trying to do so and show people,” what made that man cry.” (222 words)
”You wanted to know what it was like for us, I just thought I’d give you a taste” Tiye said. What Tiye did at the end of the story to Pascal was harsh, but I believe it is was the best way to instill into one’s mind how cruel life can get to others; the feeling; an experience.
When I was a kid I ignored the risks of my acts. My favorite past time was playing cops and robbers with my friends, with air guns. My parents warned me countless of times to stop playing with air guns, but I never listened.
Then came a night when I was chasing my friend, shooting my gun at his back while he on the other hand shoots his at me without aiming. It was unfortunate for me that he accidentally shot me in the eye. I stumbled and placed my palm on my left eye and realized after that it was pitch black. My left eye was blind.
I was very lucky that it healed on the third day
There is a quote that says, “you will only truly understand, if you experience it”. I never touched an air gun since then.
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A detailed character description in Edwidge Danticat’s story,“Ghost”
delights me. Pascal’s mother had a “ stern face ”with a distain between her furrowed eyebrows while his father batted his eyes quickly and twitched his mouth involuntary; Pascal’s brother Jules had a “Breadfruit Head” and Tiye flashed his “bright-red gums as though he had been eating raw meat.” Danticat’s vary descriptions certainly were helpful to built vivid images------all these characters just come alive.
Even though Tiye and his crew angered me, but the police officers angered me most. “They could all have switched places, and no one would notice.” What the police officers behaved even made things worse as they were under uniform cover. Actually, not only the policemen but also the lawyers even the Supreme Court Judges had their own dirty laundry for which we could see the whole political society was a disaster. .
I could not imagine any place worse than Bel Air; however, Bel Air was only a mid-level slum. People like Pascal had no choice to be a free man away from the Ghosts.
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After reading Edwidge Danticat’s the graphic story “Ghost”, I felt sick to my stomach. I couldn’t ‘digest’ pictures like: “the pigeon’s headless body” spinning on the ground or when Pascal “could taste the vomit still lingering in his mouth.” Also, reading Pascal’s cruel interrogation by the police made me depressed, because it reminded me of my dad, who was tortured before he was killed. The story brought back all bad memories, but it informed me about something I hadn’t known - the Haitian system in which corruption and poverty cause the chaos.
Pascal’s parents’ behavior upset me, because even though they were “disheartened and disgusted” by what they saw in the community and in the restaurant, they continued with their business because of money; at the same time they exposed their kids to danger because of their different upbringing than orphans (the violent gang members). When Pascal’s parents couldn’t free wrongfully accused Pascal, with their hard earned money, they realized how powerless they are and how justice doesn’t work.
It looks like, Danticat’s the real ghosts, with “the phantom limbs, phantom minds”, will be in the power for a long time, because they “were out of choice”.
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I was angered that there is such a corrupt government in this world. The gang leader (Tiya) “possessed a slew records” that could proof the government officers did lots of ignominious things; therefore, he could make a big deal with them to release Pascal although he was innocent. Besides, the police used excruciation to the suspect (Pascal) before they got the evidence. In some point, there was no difference between gangs and police; “they could all have switched places, and no one would notice.”
However, in such a destitute and brutal neighborhood, there still had some yang men like Pascal having dreams that this situation cannot “remain chimes to us forever”, which made me feel consolable. At first, he tried to have a radio show called “Ghost”, which would be offering a public service. Even after he became part of the Baz Benin, he still “imagined beginning his radio program with a segment on lost limbs”, which would lead the listeners to think deeply what the real ghosts were.
I have sympathy on these gang members in Bel Air because most of them were out of choices.
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By reading Edwidge Danticat’s story “Ghost”, I was delighted by Pascal’s parents who” were tempted to close the business for good.” They did not want to become” people in whose yard pigeons were tortured and massacred”. How many people would do the same like they did when business was flourishing and the chance for earning a lot of money was big? People are usually getting greedy in the situation like this and very often they are lured by traps a corrupted country is offering. Someone who can resists not being involved in “dirty business” and stays the same person as was before, earn everybody’s respect.
My anger was especially evoked by a rumour that Pascal’s father “was breeding carriers to send messages to armed invaders”. He became victim of despaired people whose country had left him a long ago and new ruling power which want to get rid of people like him.
But what most caught my eyes was scene when Pascal saw “distain for those” his mother “served”; a look of a humiliated person.
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After reading the heart breaking story by Edwidge Danticat, “Ghosts” I couldn’t think of anything then the poor society living there. Clearly from what I can imagine is it’s difficult to live in (Bel-Air neighbourhood), because most of those “gang members” come from “the streets, parent been murdered during dictatorship and couldn’t remember having lived in a house”. However, this undeveloped country makes it hard for Haitian’s, to have better life considering the low economic and lack of education.
Meantime, something that angered me the most was, the gangs have control over their society also, when dozens of police mans come to take Pascal; (blindfolded him and dragged him out of bed to take him to prison for the crime he didn’t commit), and not giving him the chance to explain himself. But, what Tiye did was amazing by
making a deal to get Pascal out of jail. Surprisingly, releasing him late at night after they have tortured him enough and no one has questioned the officers for their accusation.
However, it’s disturbing to know Haitian’s, have no leader standing up for social justices and even giving voices for those who have been silence; destroying the integrity of the underprivileged.
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I am surprised to see wasted potential in Edwidge Danticat’s story, “Ghosts.” Growing up historically poor, Pascal imagined of having his own Radio show. He wanted to focus on the street life and make others understand “what is like for them.” It is shocking to see a brave young man; not wanting to join the neighborhood gang makes his life more difficult. This story opened up my eyes to see the power of human spirit.
The parents in this story evoke my sympathy. They are just parents who struggle to give their children a change to succeed above the awful poverty, drug addiction, and early death which seems to be the destiny of many young kids. I feel their fear towards most of their clients, a fear that was created by the gangs. As a parent they are willing to give up their life for their children future and freedom. Moreover the poverty and fear made their daily life difficult.
After all, when Pascal was in jail and his parents came to see him the picture of them; “kneeling next to him on the floor, where he was lying in a fetal position,” Stays in my mind. (198)
After reading the story “Ghosts” by Edwidge Danticat, it first made me confused and lost because of all of the unfamiliar word that I have encountered while reading like clostra-block, destitute, hibiscus, etc. As I continued to read, I started to understand a bit of the story. It was strange when “his customers were nervous young man who wanted to perform rituals.” The ritual involving a pigeons and their throats, where their throats were being slit and was “bleed into a mixture of carnation condensed milk and a carbonated malt beverage called Malta.” To me that is very disturbing. As well as when Pascal was being interrogated, he was blind folded while the “fluorescent light whose flickering beams penetrated” the blind fold. And when one of the interrogators was asking him questions he was “sucking on a cigarette and blowing the smoke in his face.” That whole image made me feel uncomfortable because while I was reading I tried to put my-self in the story. When Tiye said “Don’t worry; as long as I’m here, nothing will happen to us tonight.” It made me more relaxed.-186
The story titled "Ghosts" follows the lifes of two young brothers, Pascal and Jules Dorien whom both face the challenges of living in a hostile environment neighborhood called Bel Air.
In the story it mentions how Pascal's parents were disheartened and disgusted and saw that the children of Haiti have a deprived childhood lacking education and jobs. Most of the members of the gang have had their parent’s die, have never gone to school, and the only home they knew was the streets. Therefore they wanted a bright future for their sons. Most of the people driven to the gang life I believe are only looking for a way to survive, in other words for many this is a way of life.
Pascal’s brother Jules avoids the hardships, avoids the negative influences that many have been lured into and decides to flee the country to join his longtime girlfriend in Montreal. I felt though as if Pascal had to deal with all the hardship at home and all he wanted was to someday have his own show at the popular Radio Zorey and would call it "Ghost". Instead he gets arrested for something he didn't do and gets beaten while in jail.
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After reading “Ghosts” by Edwidge Danticat, the quote “You wanted to know what it’s like for us,” “I just thought I’d give you a taste.”, it stayed on my mind for days. I strongly agree that sometimes you really have to experience things rather than hearing it from someone, that way you’d be able to look out and be more attentive on those certain things in the future. It may be beneficial to fail or suffer once in a while, you may aware that you didn’t actually fail, and on the other hand, you gained some ability. I still remember when i was six years old, I liked filling up glasses with sand, then flip the glass around, and then put it on the ground, after removing the glass there comes a glass shaped sand, my grandmother told me countless of times to not use a glass cup but I never listened, one day I finally broke that glass and went into my skin, and still have that scar on my hand! And never played that game after that! (194)
Edwidge Danticat is perfectly depicting the picture of a dysfunctional corrupt society in her masterpiece “Ghost.” The parts of the story that is describing social behaviours and social interactions, be it about describing the behaviour of the men of “Baz Benin”, or be it about describing the use of the “milk-Malta-pigeon-blood mix”, are all very interesting. But for me the most touching part was when Pascal was arrested, taken to commissariat, and the disgusting way he was interrogated there where “the officers were laughing even as he hiccupped and sobbed”, and then in what condition he was allowed to be visited by his parents, are all perfectly portraying the horrific picture of life in societies that are tainted by corruption, violence, and lack of respect to humanity.
After reading this short story the point that was keeping me thinking deeply about was the question, that is it poverty, corruption, and criminalities that create such a lawless sick society, or is it other way around? Yes, in reality the whole is a vicious circle in which one is creating the other.
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One of the main issue raised in the writing is the consequences of a lawless state in a tragical destiny for any Cite Pendu inhabitant.This issue is described through major theme,portrayed in the story;which are dictatorship,poverty and impunity.
Dictatorship for example is clearly described as the primary reason which gave way to gang rising by its destruction and killing of families, whose children became orphan and latter former gang members.
Beside poverty created a vacuum where these youth were able to be manipulated against their own interest by any unscrupulous person or politician ,and directed to crime.
Even, impunity inside the general society produced a situation where only toughness and force were ,for this youth,a natural way of expression.
Therefore the tragical destiny of the people of "Cite Pendu" makes sens. At least Twice the writer clearly defined their tragedy;when she writes about "lost limbs" which is the radio program pascal wants to realize , and the "inevitable" the people of "Cite Pendu" face.
The climax of this tragedy shows it as well when in the last paragraph pascal says"..he would go from limbs to soul,to the number of people who had lost family....and friends"To explain how they were desolate and poor.
The merciless and relentless poor life in Bel Air, Haiti, written by Edwidge Danticat, was a big shock to me. In the story, the farmers’ subsistence was highly damaged. “The trees vanished into charcoal,” “the mountains gave away” and “the topsoil washed into the sea.”As the consequence, the farmers lost their livelihood. The rotten government had failed to deal with the poors. They killed suspects without any proof and hired gang members as their partners for their political demonstrations. Haiti was deteriorating to a completely different country due to the younger generation had involved in gang wars and drugs dealing. Meanwhile, the developed countries were successfully making progress in advanced technologies, improving education and health care systems.
Even though I was depressed about their killing of the pigeons, I could still understand how they felt. Living in a community like Haiti, you couldn’t blame anyone beside yourself. It was your fault for being so weak. Living in a world like this, you have to be strong in order to survive. The strongs would live, the weaks would die.
However there were still a small number of people that were highly educated. I believed that they would bring positive changes to the community.
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My first reaction to the story, “Ghosts”, written by Edwidge Danticat was one of amazement at how pigeons were used metaphorically to portray life in the ghettos of Haiti. When I think of pigeons in relation to this story, I think of the saying, “birds of a feather, flock together.” This phrase epitomizes the culture of a fellowship or community. Each independent and individual thought, goal or action leading to a common reward. Whether its the safety of one pigeon in and amongst a flock of pigeons circling the sky or the acquisition of money and power through extortion and corruption amongst the gang members of this “lawless and overpopulated city.” Another thought I have when I think of pigeons is of a rat with wings. Eating scraps, living the life of a scavenger, a snapshot into how some people live in the ghetto, living off the scraps of their neighbours and the upper-class. Lastly, as Pascal’s parents disapproved with the ritualistic sacrifice of the pigeons they sold stating, “for each bird that was killed this way they were paid enough to buy two more,” they continued to do so to better themselves, in light of the fact that this practice wasn’t congruent with their ethics and morals. (209 words)
Poverty, crimes, and corruptions are all seems just like the headings on the press, but the issues that they’ve caused can’t be more real. The best way to know them is not only to report them, but also to experience them. I was astonished to read that Pascal realized what Tiye had tried to teach him by “turning him in and then rescuing him.” What about the people who are “turned in” but never get rescued? If “a taste” is already so harsh and bitter, it is unthinkable about “what it’s like” for those people who has suffered for good. That is why the endless tortures expand themselves from physically to mentally, just like “form limbs to souls”, then those pool souls were “used, then abandoned.” Does all the injustices have to happen only “because they were poor” and the options to twist the situation around are either to leave without looking back – like those pigeons who have lost their nests, or to join the gang and prosper – like the “ghosts”? I’ve challenged myself with the question, but I couldn’t think about a better way out, even though I do hope there is one. --194 words
After reading the remarkably well written story "Ghost" by Edwidge Danticat, I was shocked. In another way to say I was disgusted by the ritual they carried on, “slitting the pigeon’s throat and letting it bleed into a mixture of carbonated malt beverage Malta." That is very cruel and as I heard pigeons symbolize peace, not death.
Haitians have a pretty hard life because of lack of education and poverty which leads to gang membership. Rich people are more powerful and they control the poor people the way they feel like it. The thug had Pascal wrongfully imprisoned and then questionably released; Tiye told him “You wanted to know what it's like for us... I just thought I'd give you a taste." The "taste" was the police brutality and a corrupt justice system. Now our innocent protagonist's fate is tied up with a criminal.
It’s really sad to see the poor countries having those kinds of problems: unfair, irresponsible government that leads the society to that kind of condition.(words 169)
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