Summary Of Left To Tell By Immaculée Ilibagiza

The novel, Left to Tell, by Immaculée Ilibagiza was published in 2006, many years after the homicidal event. This is a fearful story about how Ilibagiza survived the Rwandan Genocide. This genocide stared when The Hutu tribe began targeting the Tutsis. As the tensions grew, Iiibagiza began to feel less and less safe. She hid in a bathroom with several other women for ninety-one days with hardly any food or supplies. However, the question I have is why the Hutus caused affliction among the Tutsis tribe? I believe the answer to this could possibly be that the Hutus felt the Tutsis were lower class, and the Hutus were much wealthier than the Tutsis or because they wanted full authority of the country.
I couldn’t imagine how difficult it would be to stay in a room that size for ninety-one days. As Ilibagiza explains it, “a small bathroom about four feet long and three feet wide” (Iiibagiza pg. 200). With five other women with her, they must have

Groups of people with more wealth usually have more advanced weapons then groups with less wealth. The Hutus tribe might have had more spears, machetes, or knives and the Tutsis tribe might have had less supply to fight back against the Hutus. Tribes with more wealth might also be larger than poorer tribes because they have more money to supply people within their tribe. The Hutus probably had more money to feed their tribe also to make their army stronger than the Tutsis tribe.
Another reason why the Hutus tribe may have caused conflict against the Tutsis is because they wanted authority over their country. Back in the days, countries used to fight each other in order to gain full access to another country. They may have wanted to do this genocide so that they could increase the number of their tribe and so that they could be stronger. The Hutus may have wanted control over many different regions and the Tutsis tribe might have been in their targeted