Write 4 pages thesis on the topic masters of the dew by jacques roumain. After working for 15 years in Cuban cane plantations, Manuel returned to Haiti only to discover that the people his part of, ha

Write 4 pages thesis on the topic masters of the dew by jacques roumain. After working for 15 years in Cuban cane plantations, Manuel returned to Haiti only to discover that the people his part of, has been suffering from extreme poverty because the land was no longer as productive as before he left. The streams that watered the farms were drying up and the harvests were not enough to feed the families. There was no concerted effort on the villagers to find a solution because of a long standing blood feud that divided them into factions. The peasants have abandoned the old tradition known as coumbite, a cooperative group of peasants who worked as one in order to find solutions to a common problem in the village. These two factors, the drought and the feud, brought about strings of miseries to the people. Starvation and famine can no longer be averted. Some had left the village and those who stayed deplored for the intervention of Divine Providence.

Delira, Manuel’s mother feared that they will all die from famine. Her prayers reflect the religious conviction of the peasants and how such faith was firmly stitched into their traditional practices as when they planted seeds in the field. This is shown in the following lines:

At daybreak, watched by the red and vigilant eye of the sun, before she sowed the corn, she called on the Lord Jesus Christ, turning to the east, called on the Angels of Guinea, turning to the south, called on the Spirits of the Dead, turning to the South, and she called on the Saints, turning to the north. she told them all, throwing the seeds in the four sacred directions: Jesus Christ, the Angels, the Dead, the Saints, here is the corn I give you, give me in return the courage to work and the satisfaction of reaping (Masters of the Dew, p. 54).