This piece of writing is significantly different from what we have been reading lately. The way he adresses his topic of AIDS is very interesting. he focuses on how its spread and it seems to be his main concern. its interesting though because he projected AIDS in Haiti as a hush hush epidemic and that it was a secret where or why it was spreading and what the sources were which is weid to me because we know alot more about the disease now a days i just had to keep reminding myself that this was not written recently.
Out of the entire piece his language and discription stood out to me the most. i really like how he would descripe things that so strongly apealed to my sense of sight. he painted such a beautiful picture with color and movement. i felt i could really see what he was seeing. a few examples include...
"together they seem to be riding the back of the music as it gallops to a precisely sexual beat."
"how they eat us with their eyes as we pass"
"...like a groggy boxer who has let down his arms and is waiting for the last punch"
he often compares what he is seeing to something the common man has seen so the picture is that much more vivid. his sentence structure is extremely effective in what i believe he is trying to tell us as readers.
i also like how in one sensence he used a french word with the english.
"how is it that you hotiliers, resturant owners and the ministry of tourism did not kow what tout Haiti knew?"
i thought it was really creative.
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