Harwinder Kaur
Date 12/19/2012
Eng 095
Professor: waite
Beauty and Hope in the story ‘Say You’re One
Of Them’
The
book “Say You’re One Of Them” portrait the reality of the Genocide lived in
Rwanda on 1994. In fact all of those stories are fictitious, and the author’s
main point was to get into the audience to make them and the world understand
what was going on, followed by the genocide like children being sold for
slavery and so on. Even though all the events took place in war-torn with all
the tragedies, it is possible to see some moments of beauty and hope as well on
the stories.
Moments
of beauty can be seen when Monique’s mother chose to give her life for her
children. That was an extremely tense and abnormal situation in which the
Lizard made pressure on Monique’s father to kill her mom. It was a big moment
in which we can see how much a mother care for her children. She knew that for
her children to be alive one had to die. So she asked his husband to kill her.
In
addition, we can see beauty by the moment Fofo tried to break the deal between
him and Big Guy in terms of selling those two children. Fofo tricked Big Guy by
the moment they were in the small house ready for making the trip toward Gabon.
Fofo got the two kids on the Nanfung and tried to flee with them but he was
caught.
At
last I would say that the children may be seen as hope. Children are strongly
emphasized on both of the stories and are the ones who seem to be suffering
more. They may symbolize the hope of one Rwanda without war; genocide and
brotherhood between those called Hutu, or Tutsi.
To
sum up I should say that although the book was made up of lots of tragedies and
sad stories, it is possible to find some sort of beauty and hope. Like the
moment when a mother decided to die in order to save her children. Beauty in
the moment Fofo tried to flee with the children in order to protect them. At
last and not less important, the children that quite represent hope.
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