Left To Tell By Immaculee Ilibagiza Analysis

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In the story “Left to Tell” by Immaculee Ilibagiza describes how Immaculee and the other girls survived the Hutus by having faith in God. Immaculee and five other women and children were sitting in a tiny bathroom of Pastor Murinzi’s home for ninety-one days hiding from the machete-wielding mobs from killing them. The five women suffered a lot. All they could do is sit down and listen to the cricket’s chirp. When the mob searched the Pastors home they didn’t find anything but then someone told them that they had seen girls around the house so they came back later. With Immaculee’s praying everything worked out perfectly fine and it was a miracle that the women and children

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