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What Are The Differences Between Hotel Rwanda And Things Fall Apart
On a warm sunny day when I went to Winchester Elementary School, my siblings started walking home as I came out the school. They had already began to walking through the field near the school without me. The field had trees and houses blocking the view of the street. Anyway, when we got close to the light where we crossed the street into our sub, I realized I was not informed by a teacher that we had to walk home. I didn’t have a phone then, so I couldn’t call my parents. We keep walking and when we got home my parents were not only concerned but furious.All of us were on punishment and I got whooped, since I was the oldest and should have taken charge. Due to my lack of thinking and taking charge over my siblings and the fact that …show more content…
If you look at the conflicts that happen throughout Hotel Rwanda and Things Fall Apart such as that both the main characters have conflicts throughout their story. Okonkwo has conflict with his son, Nwoye. Nwoye, a very lazy son, gave Okonkwo a hard time and things got worse after Okonkwo kills Ikemefuna( a young man Okonkwo took in to prevent war between his nation and the nearby one and who has become close with Nwoye). Okonkwo.This pushes Nwoye further from his father ending to Nwoye join the ministry and becoming a Christian “...but was already causing his father great anxiety for his incipient laziness”(Achebe 13). In Hotel Rwanda, Paul also has a conflict with many people in the movie such as one of his workers, Gregoire. Gregoire, a Hutu, didn’t “like the smell of cockroaches” and during the genocide used this opportunity to go against Paul since Paul, also Hutu, was protecting both Hutu and Tutsi. Okonkwo’s conflict became influenced due to his hatred towards his deceased father, Unoka, a lazy man that owed everyone a big sum of money and the fact that he didn't seem to show any emotion nor care for the emotion of those around him. That led to his son disowning him and join the ministry. For Paul, his conflict leads Gregoire telling the Interahamwe Militias of their plan to escape. This in turn leads to Paul’s wife and children almost being killed. Unlike Okonkwo,

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