Book Report on “Babouk”

Guy Endore tells the novel of the drastic slave story through the eyes of an African Babouk. He starts by focusing on the cargo of a French slaver during the late years of the eighteenth century. He explores the characteristics of a slave trade through his presentation of the send out and its primary quest. As the ship gets loaded with captured slave at Goree, readers ar provided with the concept of how lowly did the early Americans view the African Negroes.The way in which they were loaded to the ship makes the thought of slavery statelyly equated to the scene of save up tools and equipment that will soon be used to gain profits. In general, what makes the story terribly disturbing is the way by which one race mal conducts the early(a) because of their difference in color, race, and cultural structures. This was deputen when the slaves were stricken with opthalmia during their long, tiring, and devastatingly miserable trip towards San Domingo.During the journey to the ensl aved land, those who failed to meet and satisfy the standards of slave eligibility because of the disabilities that they developed (such as the loss of the hotshot of sight) were disposed in an inhuman way- being thrown overboard to flood out and die. As the slaves reach their unfortunate destination of lifelong enslavement, the story becomes oftentimes worse as the once free men take their roles as full-pledged slaves under the rule of masters who treat them disdainfully and without any scrape of gratitude and appreciation. However, the drastic enslavement also brings about a positive perfume on the part of the Haitians.The slavery drives them to fight. The pain of being treated appallingly and the feeling of being taken away from their home and families eventually evolved into an urge to fight and defend themselves. The slavery of their white fellows transformed them into revolutionaries which eventually became as harsh as they were. Unfortunately, the supposed enlightenment of the slaves ended in their sad death. Apathy yields indifference In the story of Babouk, readers were provided with a glimpse of how dreadful early Americans treated their potential slaves.In the story, they showed no signs of remorse in what they were doing. They failed to come that Africans like Babouk had the same rights and privileges that they enjoyed. They equated their potential slaves in the same way that they treat beasts of burden and tools for trade and profit. They showed no apathy and acted as if the indifference was a normal part of life and living. In effect, they instilled hatred in the center field of their slaves and they promoted the idea that a human being may treat their fellows in an inhuman way, for as long as they can delineate differences in their race and culture.They showed that violence was normal part of societal interaction and that choice of the fittest exists not only in the jungle. In response to this elaborate show of apathy, they harvested n othing but indifference from their revolutionist slaves. The most disturbing consequence of this sadistic harvest is when Babouk threw a white child on the ground, potty a pike into its innocent and defenseless body, and used it as a banner. Reference Endore, Guy (1934). Babouk. New York Vanguard Press