Many people love to travel and try to learn something new about a country, but not many people know about the traumatizing factors of living in Rwanda as shown in the novel, A Sunday at the pool in Kigali, by Gill Courtemanche, the ignorance portrayed by Velcourt leads to drastic measures, which makes both Velcourt and his wife, Gentille’s, life’s extremely difficult, as can be seen in him disregarding the humans purposely giving each other AIDS, not protecting his wife to the full extent, and ignoring the fact that the Hutus are killing the Tutsis.
The simple reason that Velcourt is disregarding the people within Kigali purposely giving each other AIDS leads to a life of difficulties. Velcourt is a Canadian who is visiting Rwanda to make a …show more content…
He sees that his wife, Gentille, gets asked for ID every time they go out, while the Hutus laugh at her consistently for having an ID card that says she is a Hutu. Velcourt ignores the fact that the majority of the Hutu’s want to and are killing the Tutsis. Velcourt and Gentille have been pulled over, and the Hutu sergeant has said to Velcourt, “‘Goodbye, Monsieur Bernard, journalist, expatriate Canadian protector of the Tutsi hooker Gentille sibomana. Goodbye’” (105). Velcourt knows that the Hutus have knowledge of who he and his wife actually are, yet he still continues to show ignorance by not making a change to leave this situation when he still able. He knows that all the Hutus want the Tutsis dead. Everyone within Kigali wants “‘death to the cockroaches’” (105), which are the Tutsis. “Recently, in his own neighborhood, someone had been setting fire to all the Tutsis houses” (83), knowing that this is happening in his neighborhood, Velcourt is continuing to ignore the fact the Hutus are killing Tutsis, and he’s being ignorant by not removing his wife from this dangerous setting. “Yes, he could prove that over several days then thousand Tutsis had been massacred in Bugesera” (159), Velcourt is clearly ignorant for ignoring the fact that his wife could be one of
The simple reason that Velcourt is disregarding the people within Kigali purposely giving each other AIDS leads to a life of difficulties. Velcourt is a Canadian who is visiting Rwanda to make a …show more content…
He sees that his wife, Gentille, gets asked for ID every time they go out, while the Hutus laugh at her consistently for having an ID card that says she is a Hutu. Velcourt ignores the fact that the majority of the Hutu’s want to and are killing the Tutsis. Velcourt and Gentille have been pulled over, and the Hutu sergeant has said to Velcourt, “‘Goodbye, Monsieur Bernard, journalist, expatriate Canadian protector of the Tutsi hooker Gentille sibomana. Goodbye’” (105). Velcourt knows that the Hutus have knowledge of who he and his wife actually are, yet he still continues to show ignorance by not making a change to leave this situation when he still able. He knows that all the Hutus want the Tutsis dead. Everyone within Kigali wants “‘death to the cockroaches’” (105), which are the Tutsis. “Recently, in his own neighborhood, someone had been setting fire to all the Tutsis houses” (83), knowing that this is happening in his neighborhood, Velcourt is continuing to ignore the fact the Hutus are killing Tutsis, and he’s being ignorant by not removing his wife from this dangerous setting. “Yes, he could prove that over several days then thousand Tutsis had been massacred in Bugesera” (159), Velcourt is clearly ignorant for ignoring the fact that his wife could be one of