 All Amabelle is doing is turning "her own personal trauma into a collective one where Sebastien is no longer her lover, but also a victim of the dictatorship" This is because there is a major fear of forgetting the names and the faces of their loved ones so the burden falls on those who survived the massacre to keep their memory alive.Published in 1998, "The Farming of Bones" received numerous critiques raving about Danticat's ability to make history come to life within the readers' minds.