Quotes and Questions #3

Quote #1 "During the ride to Bel-Air, we were stopped at a road-block by two policemen with Uzis, who scolded the taxi driver for having an outdated driver's liscense but released him for a bribe of twenty Haitian dollars, which the cab driver told us, rather forcefully, would have to be added to the fare." Edwidge, Page 151

This quote shows a lot about the way that some of the so called "policemen" act. It shows how the word policeman means two very different things in the U.S. and Haiti. Later in the chapter, it says that the policemen probably only stopped them because of Edwidge, her father, and her mother being from America. They weren't actually discriminated against in America, but their own country.

This shows a lot about this country. The way that the authorities treat outsiders means a lot about their goverment. Their hatred has been growing up towards other big countries ever since the UN peace keeping troops were depoloyed.

Quote #2 "Before my father's illness, I'd thought that the sicker a person was, the harder doctors would try to save him. Not so, it seemed." Edwidge, page 157

This quote shows how some of Edwidge and her family's hopes of America were suddenly squashed. When they heard of this wonderful place, they thought that it would be all gumdrops and sugarplums, but they were wrong. This quote talks about how they wanted the doctors to be able to want to save everyone. But with more sickness, the doctors perseverence died.

This one quote made me feel very sad. With all of those TV shows about doctors caring and wanting to save people may be all of the way wrong. They might just be out right fabrications.