Friday, January 29, 2010

Children Of Rwanda's Genocide

So my essential question is "What does power have to do with fairness and justice?". My first story was Children Of Rwanda's Genocide. My essential question connects with this because the hutu militia had lots of power and were not put to justice for killing hundred of thousand of tutsis. The Hutus were able to take control of Rwanda and did not meet any justice for their relentless killing spree. What was worse was that the Hutus really destroyed the lives of thousands of kids. The author really conveyed imagery and setting through the mood by telling us about their densely populated country being slaughtered by the Tutsis. It made me think that the conditions were absolutely horrible. My second story was The Rwandan Girl Who Refused To Die. My essential question connects to this story because the Hutu militia who entered the church massacred everyone there and showed no mercy even to children. The militia had tremendous power over everyone and fairness, and justice was obviously unachievable because the militia could not be stopped. The author conveyed imagery and setting through the mood by telling us the story about this 13 year old girl who was injured and got to witness her family and friends being killed. The mood I think is extremely depressing when the author describes Valentina's harsh wounds. I believe the two articles are similar because they were both about the cruel genocide in Rwanda and describe horrible and disturbing stories. Both of the authors convey evil when they describe the actions the militia is doing, the authors then tell us about the outcome of the militia's actions and they are often disturbing. One other thing the authors conveyed was the lack of humanity by the Hutus. Their militia killed many men, women, and children like it did not matter to them.

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