Chapter 3 Tommy

In chapter 3 we get our first glimpse of Zanmi Lasante and what it’s all about. It beginss with Kidder on his way to Zanmi Lasante for the first time. He is being picked up at the Port-au-Prince airport in a “sturdy four-wheel-drive pickup”. As he is on his way he describes the landscape such as mountains and villages of wooden huts, beggars here and there, and so on. When Kidder arrives to Zanmi Lasante he describes it as a “fortress on its mountainside, a large complex of concrete buildings, half covered with tropical greenery.” He continues on to describe the inside as it appears, which is nothing like the rest of the outside city. Everything here in the hospital is new and well resourced.We come to realize at the end that Farmer, even when we think the day is over, it isn’t. His work never ends. He is in a constant day to day fight against the disease of Haiti.