Taken Over By Satan & The Rwandan Girl Who Refused to Die

Taken Over By Satan & The Rwandan Girl Who Refused to Die

EQ: How can a reader infer the author’s intentions based on the text?
After reading the two articles it is clear both authors was trying to expose the cruelty and brutality of the Rwanda homicide. In both articles, the reader can tell the articles were both written in a very serious tone, and in both articles, there is many uses of descriptions and imagery. Reading both articles, the readers can feel emotions like sympathy, fear, and regret (of the killers that were told to kill).
“...she seemed more shadow like than human, a skeletal apparition lying on a camp bed where bodies littered the roads and fields.” The author described the girl as lifeless, and adds onto the mood by also describing the body littered floor. A lifeless girl lying in the middle of corps creates a very depressing and somehow violent image in the reader’s mind. When thinking into deeper layers, the girl was surrounded by bodies, which may indicate she was close to being dead, becoming one of the bodies scattered on the floor.
“If they found someone alive they would smash their heads together until they were dead.” The sentences did not need any fancy descriptions to show and put an image in the reader’s mind; even thinking the first layer, violence of this homicide the author is trying to portray is very obvious to the readers. When thinking deeper, the readers sympathise the victims, and imagines how much fear the victims are experiencing.
“It was as if we were taken over by Satan. We were taken over by Satan. We were not ourselves.” In the first layer, Satan was used to describe evil, as he is the symbol of all negative darkness. When looking deeper, we realize the author maybe telling us there is darkness in everyone and there is darkness in humanity. The killers were an example of humanity being covered with blood and blinded by violence.
What impacted me the most was to relate to the girl from article The Rwandan Girl That Refused to Die. I can sympathise how terrifying it is for this girl, younger than me, to witness the massacre of people she love, especially by people that she knew, as close as her neighbours. It is very strong for me that even after the violent traumatizing events she still is willing to live her life and try to move on.

The Charmer (Picture, Explaination)

This picture connects, because the beautiful eye looks like it sees through your soul

It is charming, beautiful, therefore it may manipulate, and charm you into forgiving anything they like you to.

Brother Dear Response (GREGGG)

Bernice Friesen has created an identity of a character whose age is close to high school students to make it easier for me to connect. I am able to connect to Greg very well, and understand where he is coming from, because I myself will soon have to make the same decisions about my own future that he had to make. In this story, Greg made an action, and received reactions of what most parents would give their children.

 Parents mostly have expectations, or things they wish their children achieve. In my experience, I understand although parents always wish the best for their kids, sometimes they forget that being successful does not equal to happiness.

Sometimes parents just don't understand or make any sense.