This paper examines two very different books, "The
Massacre at El Mozote : A Parable of the Cold War" by Mark Danner and
"The Farming of Bones" by Edwidge Danticat. It looks at how in each of these books the authors provide a complete picture of a
massacre and how each story lays out the events in graphic presentation that cannot be ignored or shoved aside. It evaluates how each book tells a similar story in that people were brutally murdered, yet each story has differences that set them apart from each other. It analyzes how the books address the anger at Americans, given the fact that the nation brags to the world that it is free, fair and the savior of the underdog and how America has been known since its inception as the big brother willing to swoop in and rescue any nation being hurt or treating its members cruelly. In both of these books the point is driven home that the American
government turned its back on an entire people that were in crisis.