Tuesday, October 20, 2009

So far in my book, Paul Rusesabagina has continued talking about the history of Rwanda and the farther that i have gotten in the book, he has talked more and more about the present. Right now he is the late 1900s and has talked about who has controlled Rwanda and about how that changes the country. I think it's very interesting to read about how the country changes each time a new ruler is installed. I disagree with the way that the country was ruled because it had the potential to become a really successful country but instead, failed.

Paul Rusesabagina always talks about being kind and caring. “I said, 'I'm not coming with you, because so far I'm the only person who can negotiate with the killers,” (page 54 An Ordrinary Man). This quote meanst that he cared about all of the people he had in his hotel and he didn't want to see them slaughtered, even if that meant he had to risk dying.

"Eight hundred thousand lives snuffed out in one hundred days. That's eight thousand lives a day,. More thatn five lives per minute. Each one of those lives was a like a little world in itself. Some person who laughed and cried and ate and thought and felt and hurt just like any other person, just like you and me. A mother's child, every one irreplaceable." (Page 4 An Ordinary Man).

I chose this passage because I never really thought about this. I know that each day, many people die. You can hear about those peopled who die, and you just kind of shake it off becaues you didn't know them, or anyone that knew them. But if you think about it, they had a family, and it could have been someone you knew. I wonder what murderers would do if they took the time to think about the person they're gonna kill and thought about they're life.

A time I had to make an ethical descision was when my friends wanted to go somewhere, but I didn't, so instead I went home. It was boring being at home well my friends were having fun, but I knew I made the right descision.

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