TASTE OF SALT
This story takes place in the slums of Haiti. In a hospital bed, lays Djo, beaten and hardly alive. Djo is an innocent victim of a political firebombing. The Macoutes, or the bad guys, pour gasoline in and on the camps of the followers of Aristide. They rob and slaughter the members of the camps. He is also a vital member of Father Jean Bertrand Aristide's. Father Aristide, or as the local Haitians call him, Titid, sends Jeremie to Djo. She has a tape recorder with her. Jeremie is there to listen and to tape Djo's story as from a little child to present date. Djo tells her of how he was raised in Cite Soleil, a very poor and large part of Port-au-Prince. Djo lived in a one room house witch was a stall for a motor car, or a garage. He lives with his mother, father, two sisters and two brothers, also his cousin Lally. All of the chil
I felt sad for Djo, for all he really wanted was a new Haiti, and big powerful people were in his way. So, Francis Temple relates the taste of salt with the lives of the Haitians. He was poor all of life and didn't just feel bad for himself. People like Djo and Jeremie are the one who try to overthrow military dictatorship in Haiti. dren sleep in one bed together and the mother and father have a bed of their own. He rised above it to actually do something about the terrible case of poverty in his country. " "Is hope we need to keep alive, the, Djo" "And we will, Jeri, don't you think?" I chose that passage from the book because it was powerful. He asks himself if the go-between can be any person like Donay. Donay thought that his life was used and thrown away like he wasn't important. He thinks about Christ and what his father said about the 'go-between'. Everyone who heard his story, because it was amazingly full of courage loved him. Djo almost gave his life to overthrow the militia government. The bitterness was the pithy description of poverty in Haiti.
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