Left To Tell By Immaculee Ilibagiza Summary

Immaculee Ilibagiza tells her story Immaculée Ilibagiza was a Rwandan genocide survivor, her whole entire family except for her brother who was on a business trip, was brutally murdered and she learned to forgive the killers (Immaculee Ilibagiza). After the whole genocide Immaculee went to church and learned to forgive the killers and she went on to write her books and tell her story to many people. Immaculēe Ilibagiza influenced culture and religion through her works, including “Left to tell”, “Led by faith” and “The boy who met Jesus”. Immaculée Ilibagiza explains how Hutu people hurt her family and murdered them. She also tells how she learned to forgive the killers, “Oh, god, I prayed soundlessly, I have no heart left to fight. I'm ready to give up . . . Please give me strength and protect me from all the demons that are all around me. Show me how to make the killers blind again” (Left to Tell). She was praying and she wanted to know how to make the …show more content…
This book almost kind of has the same feeling of Left to Tell. Just because she really goes in depth about the history of the African Rwandan genocide. She also tells how she learned to forgive the killers. Just because she really goes in depth about the history of the African Rwandan genocide, “The more I prayed, the more aware I became that, in order to receive God's true blessing, my heart had to be ready to receive His love. But how could He enter my heart when it was holding so much anger and hatred?”(Led by Faith). God will bless her the more she prays and is ready to accept his love. She knew she had to let go of her anger so God could enter into her heart. This is a good example of how forgiveness is such an important thing in today's society. Not only that, but how is can release you from bitterness, because she learned that with God on her side she can