God Must Have Been Sleeping Analysis

Within every memoir, there has been this common theme of a young individual becoming more exposed to the dangers of the world and how this turns their life as they once knew it, upside down. These authors face some events that one may have never thought possible in their life but also raise many questions about the reliance of their perspective. In each piece of what we assume is non-fiction, comes a problematic nature of what these individuals may have had to create to fulfill a story line. They may have had to read about the history, ask family members, or go upon what they felt must have occurred. These can lead for the potential bias of their perspective. Therefore, I want to touch on a few different points throughout this paper because each individual had their own perspective and faced genocide in their own “special” way.
Three topics lead cause me some confusion and/or disbelief. Particularly, the topic of where the physical person was during the genocide and what events they may or may not have …show more content…
Without God’s influence, it makes me wonder if she would have still stuck through and made it out alive. I feel that she put a lot of mental effort to speak with him on multiple occasions, especially when she was reading the bible and praying for such long periods of time. In, “God Must Have Been Sleeping”: Faith as an Obstacle and a Resource for Rwandan Genocide Survivors in the United States," this piece talks about how those experience religion before and after the genocide. Religion is both an obstacle and a resource for those experiencing traumatic event. Churches played such a huge role in many of the ruthless killings of the Tutsi’s. This makes me wonder if Immaculée had a hard time finding the courage to keep her faith and if she feels that because of her experience, she may not hold the place she worships in a place of high