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The Blue Sweater Chapter 1 Summary

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In chapter 10 of The Blue Sweater, this was written by Jacqueline Novogratz, the one thing that captivated me was Honorata’s endurance. Novogratz narrates Honorata was a tutis. When the war began, Honorata and her husband and their children left their home and moved to stay with her twin sister called Anuziata in Nyamirambo. During the war, one solider came to Anuziata’s home and ordered them to come out of the house. The men were asked to stand at the left and the women and children should stand the right. The solider then ordered his people to shoot them and left for dead. When they left, Honorata and thirteen children survived without gun shoot wound. Honorata started helping the other Rwandan women to have positive attitude towards the war. Honorata was able to endure till the end. …show more content…

This incident happened to a certain woman who comes from was Sierra Leone and later became my mother’s best friend. She told us that before the civil war, she was one of the richest people in Sierra Leone. She had a lot of lands, cattle’s and she a cocoa farm. She was married and had six children. When the civil war began, she and her husband and their children left their home to escape their lives. They started walking in the morning; whiles walking, they met the rebels coming towards them and started shooting at them. She and her family got shot by the rebels, they were left for dead. She eventually stood up from the ground and started shaking the husband and their kids, but they were all dead. She started walking from her country to their neighboring country which was called Liberia. After she finished narrating what happen to her , I started to think if I was her shoe’s what would I have done. This made me cherish my family and know how to relate with others. Eventually, she was able to endure to the

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