How Is Immaculee Alike

Religion was one of the bigger subjects in both of these stories. Immaculee held onto her faith as a Christian very closely. As a matter of fact it was a Pastor by the name of Pastor Murinzi who she fled to during the time when her father leading Tutsi men to fight against the Hutu

Hotel Rwanda tackles a recent event in history where the Hutu extremists of Rwanda initiated a terrifying campaign of genocide, massacring approximately

Mass killings have disrupted and affected many communities in the world. The ethnic violence witnessed in Rwanda, and its neighbor Burundi is a relatively recent twentieth century example. Tracy Kidder, in his book Strength in what Remains, tells the story of a Burundi immigrant, Deogratias (Deo) Niyizonkiza, who witnessed the Burundi and Rwanda genocide and eventually becomes a U.S. citizen. It follows his flight from this predicament, and recounts how he suffered and overcame homelessness to graduate from Columbia University, and finally- to his unrelenting pursuit and achievement of his childhood dream of building a health care

In the second part, Immaculée narrates her horrifying experience of the genocide. God became her father, mother, brother, her everything, in a tiny bathroom where she hid from the killers for months. When the genocide began, Immaculée’s father asked her to go to hide at the house of Pastor Mulinzi – a family friend – with her brother Vianney, and Augustin, Immaculée’s friend who was a Hutu but looked like a Tutsi. Mulinzi accepted them into his house, but when things became tough, he chased Vianney and Augustin away and kept Immaculée with five other women. Mulinzi hid them in a tiny bathroom. Every corner of his house was searched many times by the killers, the Interahamwe (youth militia trained for killing), but it seemed that God blinded them, preventing them from discovering the bathroom. The six women wished

In the book ‘Night’, Elie’s mother and sister got burned alive during the cruel selection. Wiesel says, “I didn’t know… I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever” (Night, 29). Elie will no longer experience what a normal kid will, the love of a mother, the smile of a smile, and the care that a mother gives to her own kid. Elie’s family is forever broken, without his mother and sister, his family won’t be a whole anymore, this traumatic experience will change Elie’s life forever. These experiences can also change someone’s character, some changes are permanently, but some only at the moment. Elie was faithful to God before, but after all the tragedies that he’s been through, he questions himself, asking “why would I bless him” (Night, 67)? Elie’s religious belief and faith in God is going away as he experience these traumatic experiences, but for him, these were only temporary. Traumatic experience can change someone’s life and their character, in horrible

The Rwandan Genocide also is still an existing issue which killed one million people, mostly Tutis and some Hutu’s, continues to be one of the most tragic and memorable events in the contemporary society of Africa. Specifically for those who were involved. Lucie Niyigena, a 70 year old woman who managed to survive the genocide, is still forced to face her fear everyday living beside someone who could have potentially killed a member of her family. This is just one of the still existing hardships for those forced to live it. This problem has not been changed since historical times partly because modern society has chosen not to make the change.

Immaculee cannot change the fact that she is Tutsis, but she makes an effort to stay alive. She runs to the house of a Hutu minister, and begs him to hide her. Fortunately

Every moment of time during the holocaust was a new challenge for Elie but if he had remembered “ You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.(New International Version, Hebrew 10:36)” his fight for another day would have been easier. Elie writes in Night that he would struggle to survive and often contemplated if it was worth fighting for a new day, if he had remembered the verse he would have found it easier to continue as he would know God and a plan for him. When Elie was running in the snow on a hurt foot, and if he stopped would be killed, he felt like he could end it all right there, but with the help of this verse, he would remember God has a plan for him and he could continue.

Maria Kizito and Hotel Rwanda are true accounts of two isolated events that took place in Rwanda during a genocide in 1994 where nearly one million innocent people lost their lives. Maria Kizito is a play that focuses mainly on the trial of a catholic nun, Maria Kizito, who was charged and found guilty of promoting and facilitating the murder of seven thousand refugees who sought shelter from Hutu extremist at a local convent (Kizito 178). Whereas Hotel Rwanda focuses on the life of Paul Rusesabagina, a Rwandan manager, and Hutu, at a Belgian-owned luxury hotel in Rwanda 's capital, who saved not only himself and his family but also 1,268 refugees from the same extremist. Despite their differences in location and characters, the play and the film, both develop narratives that tell the same story about how the genocide in Rwanda is a direct result of colonization, how the international community failed to intervene, and that a plane crash ignited in what was the worst genocide after the holocaust. Before analyzing how Maria Kizito and Hotel Rwanda depict Colonialism, it is important to first understand the history of Colonialism in Rwanda.

Its 1944 and young Elie Wiesel is taken from his home in Sighet, Transylvania. After a 12 hour boxcar ride, Elie and the other jew from the town arrive in Oswiecim, Poland. All these innocent people will soon be loaded into the death camp “Auschwitz- Birkenau.” Throughout the Holocaust young Elie has changed from waiting for god to intervene in these horrible times to denying any and all hope from God. Elie says “It was nothing more than chance” (viii) that he survived.

The continent of Africa has been continually engaged in civil, tribal and cross national conflicts from colonial independence up until present day. What historians regard as the most ‘efficient genocide’ in history, occurred in a mere 100 days in the small central African country of Rwanda. The Hutus and the Tutsis, two ethnic groups within Rwanda, have been at continual unrest for the past half a century. During the 100 day massacre of 1994, a murder occurred every two seconds; resulting in 18% of the Tutsi population being killed. A decade after the war, in 2004, the film Hotel Rwanda was released. The film followed the story of a Hutu man; Paul Rusesabagina as he housed over 1200 Tutsi refugees in his hotel. The Hotel De Milles

After she was seized, she had been raped multiple times not only because of her beauty, but also because “she had been sleeping with Tutsis” which therefore meant that she could sleep with the Hutu as well (Mullins 726). The woman had been raped in front of four Interhamwe soldiers as well as a large group of refugees. In the chaos after of the rape by Musema, the woman was ordered to turn over from her stomach to her back and raped by multiple soldiers in turns. Her breast was cut off by one of the soldiers, which they tried to make her child eat (Mullins 726-727). The violence and chaos allowed for the pre-existing animosities to turn into the crime of rape. The act, though isolated, was obviously meant directed towards the entire Tutsi population as a whole. Alfred Musema was a man who often engaged in these opportunistic rapes, which were single episode events (Mullins 726).

“A small boy of 11 years, was curled up in a ball of fresh flesh and blood, in his eyes was a glance of lost hope, abandonment, and defeat. He was without vision; A little girl at nine years of age, was pinned up against a tree…her legs apart, and she was covered in things even hell can’t imagine; excrement, urine and blood . . . in her mouth was cold fresh meat, cut with a machete, that of her father… near in a ditch with putrid water were four bodies, cut up in pieces, stacked up-their parents and older brothers.”

Soon after, most of the white people that can legally leave Rwanda are forced to leave. Rwanda is being ignored by the rest of the world, and they are not receiving much help. The hotel has become a large refugee camp, and more people seem to keep coming. The hotel is almost overflowing with refugees. The supplies at the hotel are being used up very fast, so Paul and Gregoire, an employee at the hotel, leave to go get more food and other supplies needed. They go to George Rutagando and he tells them that soon all of the Tutsis will be dead. He sends them on a different road, and they drive into thick fog. The road starts to get very bumpy, and Paul tells Gregoire that they will drive into the river. Paul gets out of the car, and he sees hundreds of dead bodies lying on the road. Paul realizes that George sent them on that road purposely, and tells Gregoire that he must not say a word about what they saw.

In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie faces internal conflict about his religious beliefs. In the beginning, he is an innocent and religious boy who values his faith in God. Elie believed that the world is filled with goodness and virtue; however, his view has changed after living in the concentration camp for so long. As the story progress, his relationship with God has changed and starts evolve into an immoral character. Elie’s experience in the Holocaust left him to struggle to maintain his trust in God.