Immaculee Book Report

This book was a story of how Immaculee Ilibagiza survived the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 when she hid at the pastor’s house, in his bathroom, with several other Tutsi women for over 3 months. It was also written to tell us how Immaculee 's family was murdered during the genocide that lasted three months and took the lives of thousands of Rwandans. Also, it was also written to show how to have faith in prayer, have a relationship with God, and have forgiveness, love and understanding for the people that have trespassed against you.
In the first part of the book Immaculee tells about her life before the genocide. Her family was a middle-class family and they all received education, she had three brothers, and her family and herself were part of the Tutsi tribe. There was always tensions between the Tutsi’s and Hutu’s, even though they weren’t a huge threat until the genocide, most Tutsi’s and Hutu were normally friends, or very good acquaintances. She then tells about her primary education, and then university. Then when she left university for home for Easter the genocide began. The genocide started when the president’s plane was shot down and the extremist Hutu’s …show more content…
Honestly up until I read this book, I had no knowledge of the genocide in Rwanda, and I especially didn’t know it was as tragic as it clearly was. Having a first person point of view made it clear how emotionally draining and tragic it was. If it would not have been written in first person, I would not know any personal aspects or feelings. If it was written in third person, mostly the only thing that would’ve been known would most likely have been facts. Furthermore, facts do not fully explain everything about an event. So, this book did very well informing me about what happened in the genocide in