I read the stories, Children of the Genocide, and The Girl Who Refused to Die.
Explain how the authors convey and integrate imagery, setting and work on mood.
In both stories, each author describes what they each saw when they visited Rwanda, and the horrors they experience while they were there. You can almost see what they saw, as they describe the murder, and destruction that occured there. you can feel a dark mood coming from the author as they each retell their tale's.
Think and explain the techniques the authors are using-are the articles similar or different?How are the authors conveying the sense/tone of evil? ex. word choice, images etc…What patterns in society or contexts contribute to the layers you are seeing?
Both articles are similar in the sense that they both talk about what the children of Rwanda experienced during the genocide. In the article about the girl named Valentina, we hear about what happened to the children though her story. The Hutu's slaughtered everyone, and children were not an exception. Children of all ages were murdered cruelly in various ways by heartless soldiers. This shows great evil in the Hutu people.
How do the authors convey the evil, darkness in humanity? Events, people, imagery,setting etc.
When the authors describe what happened in Rwanda, we get both feelings of evil and darkness, and we get a picture of the setting of the post genocide Rwanda.
What impacted you the most and why?
The thing that impacted me most is when Valentina described what happened inside the church. At one point she says that they cut open a pregnant woman, then took the infants and drowned them in human refuse, really affected me greatly because of the fact that anyone could be so cruel as that.
Victoria V.
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