Question

Write one paragraph comparing the memoir and the article. Compare how the writers present similar ideas to the reader. Include evidence from the text to support your comparison.
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

Answer 1

The first author, Julia, describes the facts as anecdotes of her family, while the other author, Mark, reports the events from an unknown source. Both authors write about the culling of Haitians in lands they are clearly not welcome in. Moreover, while Julia states the reason behind the killing of Haitians - having learned from her family its due to the hate the ruler of the land holds against them -, Mark describes in detail the victim identification methods of these people - being the verification of their pronunciation.

Answer 2

An example of a paragraph comparing the memoir and the article provided is the following:

- Both the memoir by J∪lia Alvarez and the article by Mark Memmott recount stories connected to the same historical event: the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.

- The memoir has a personal touch in the way the events are told. Alvarez mentions facts she learned through her family. Her father and mother experienced the "true nature of the dictatorship" first hand.

- Her father, for instance, was one of the lucky people who got to escape. He was also involved in plots to restore the country to democracy.

- The article has a more impersonal perspective. That does not mean the author does not feel any pain or anger when recounting the horrible events, but he tells them in a more journalistic, matter-of-fact way.

- While the memoir mentions different aspects of the situation quickly, the article takes longer in describing one of the methods used by soldiers to identify and kill Haitians.

• When comparing two texts, we look for the similarities in them.

• When contrasting two texts, we look for their differences.

• As we can see, both texts are about the Trujillo dictatorship. Thus, they have this subject in common.

• However, they tell stories about it in very different ways.

• A memoir is, obviously, more personal, since it relies on the memories and experiences of the writer.

• An article is more impersonal, since it is usually written by someone who researched about the topic, but not necessarily experienced the situation.

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