Symbolism And Imagery In The Rwandan Genocide

The Rwandan genocide was a terrible genocide that happened between April 7,1994 till mid July in Rwanda, Africa. It lasted 100 days. The Hutus were the perpetrators and the Tutsis were the victims. Tutsis were targeted because the hutus were “jealous” of the Tutsis who had more rights and seemed more “European” to King Leopold. King Leopold is a king that took over the congo and rwanda without ever visiting the place. The genocide ended with the help of the RPF and the tutsi-dominated rebel group. After the genocide tutsis and till this day they have not recovered from the trauma but still have been able to get through it by making documentaries, writing books and some even traveling around the U.S to bring awareness. And even though they were able to …show more content…
An example of this theme is when immaculee is walking by the hutus after the genocide while she is with the french refugees and the 7 other women that she had hid with. Then realizes that the genocide is over because no hutu comes up to her and asks her for her identification card . Immaculee writes; “The genocide is happening in people 's hearts...The killers are good but right now evil has a hold of their hearts.(pg.144)” The authors uses figurative language because when she says “The genocide is happening in people 's hearts..” she doesn 't literally mean that the war is happening. And that 's what figurative language is, when an author says something but is not meant in the way that they say it. This supports my theme because Immaculee could have rebelled and could have started killing hutus but she didn 't, because God showed her that the people that are killing are good people they are just in a bad situation where they think killing the the right thing to do when it 's really