All around the world genocide has been going on for so many years and still currently taking place, it is the killings of millions of people for their differences in appearance, race, and religion.” A genocide begins with the killing of one man not for what he has done, but because of who he is” (Kofi Annan). The decimation of millions of Tutsi people has been an attempt for so long and an intentional destruction of people with difference in color, in different beliefs, and how they look. In Night by Elie Wiesel shows the many horrors and brutalities of genocide that has affected millions of Jewish people. Left to tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza is a well written life experience of a Rwandan Tutsi girl who went through terrible experiences as well as Tutsis who are hated for who they are as people.
In the book Left to Tell by Ilibagiza is about how the lives of a Hutu and
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In the story she says “I’d been praying continually for weeks, and my relationship with God was deeper than I’d ever imagined possible”(106). Tutsis are suffering and they do not get food, water, and see their families die yet they still praise, worship, and rejoice Him. As they are praying their relationship builds with God and they have more hope in freedom rather than wallowing in self pity. However, Wiesel says “I knew that my sins grieved the almighty and so I pleaded for forgiveness” (68). The Jewish people knew that they did commit sins but they are pleading for forgiveness and thank Him for everything. They have been treated like animals, treated like they are not important and Jews always turn to God and hope for freedom and happiness after the camps. Left to Tell by Ilibagiza and Night by Wiesel are both excellent books that let readers go through the experience that they went through and feel their exact