Write one paragraph comparing the memoir and the article. Compare how the writers present similar ideas to the reader. Include e

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Write one paragraph comparing the memoir and the article. Compare how the writers present similar ideas to the reader. Include e

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By the time my mother married my father, however, she knew all about the true nature of the dictatorship. Thousands had lost their lives in failed attempts to return the country to democracy. Family friends, whom she had assumed had dropped away of their own accord, turned out to have been disappeared. My father had been lucky. As a young man, he had narrowly escaped to Canada after the plot he had participated in as a student failed. This was to be the first of two escapes. That same year, 1937, El Generalísimo ordered the overnight slaughter of some eighteen thousand Haitians, who had come across the border to work on sugarcane plantations for slave wages. It was from my father that my mother learned why Trujillo hated blacks with such a vengeance, how he disguised his own Haitian ancestry, how he lightened his skin with makeup.

–“A Genetics of Justice,”
Julia Alvarez

The method his soldiers used in 1937 to try to identify those who would be killed was cruelly unique. When confronting someone in the lands along the border with Haiti, they would hold up a sprig of parsley and ask what it was. If the person responded by trilling the "r" in perejil (Spanish for parsley), he would be free to go. Anyone who didn't trill the "r" was thought to be a Haitian Creole speaker—and was likely to be killed.

–“Remembering to Never Forget,”
Mark Memmott

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Naddika [2.5K] · Answer 1 · 2026-02-16T07:24:55+03:00

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Gnom [2.6K] · Answer 2 · 2026-02-16T07:25:50+03:00

Julia’s memoir recounts her family’s experiences as personal stories, whereas Mark’s article relays events from an unidentified perspective. Both authors tackle the harsh treatment of Haitians in territories where they are unwelcome. Additionally, Julia provides the motive behind the Haitian killings—her family’s account revealing the ruler’s animosity—while Mark focuses on the brutal tactic used to identify victims, specifically testing pronunciation of "perejil" to distinguish Haitians from others.