Murambi‚ The Book of Bones by Boubacar Boris Diop is a historical fiction that powerfully calls upon readers to fight their ignorance of the Rwandan genocide. Diop generates empathy using fictional characters’ experiences in the Rwandan genocide to show the nature of tragedy while also providing an accurate history of the genocide. The novel calls upon readers to resist their urge to be complacent and to bring light to a tragedy that is too often ignored or skewed‚ especially by Western nations.
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“middle-class values‚” (Chesnutt 169). The facts are slavery; racism and religion are exposed in history. Nonetheless‚ regionalist authors Charles Chesnutt and Mark Twain had craft stories displaying the realities of the three attributes during the Gilded Age. Of course slavery is cruel. It is a horribly evil that had weakened the political structure to the point that President Lincoln executed an executive order in favor freeing some slaves‚ The Emancipation of proclamation on January 1‚
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He leads me into a dark room‚ where x-ray screens are set up. He stands in front of the x-rays and faces me. "Osteosarcoma is a type bone cancer‚ most commonly found in Tiana’s age group. Now‚ the good news is‚ this type of cancer can be cured with surgery." I let out a breath of relief‚ knowing that Tiana still had a chance. I was about to ask about the surgery‚ until I noticed the doctor’s facial expression
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Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones starts out by saying “ My name was Salmon‚ like the fish; first name‚ Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6‚ 1973.” The book is narrated by an average teenage girl who was viciously raped and murdered by her next door neighbor. After her dealth is confirmed‚ Susie’s family struggles to cope with the loss of their fourteen year old daughter and sister and all of the unanswered questions about her dealth. Both of Susie’s parents are incapable
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newfound strength after her death: These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections — sometimes tenuous‚ sometimes made at great cost‚ but often magnificent — that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events my death brought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous lifeless body had been my
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The book The Farming of Bones is a constant reminder of loss and regret shared by almost all of the characters. The story is a tragic event in itself but the character’s pain doesn’t start with the massacre. Throughout the story‚ water is a reoccurring entity not always shown in a positive light. This is what makes the ending scene difficult to interpret and the significance varies between readers. In the ending scene‚ Amabelle is laying naked in the river “waiting for a new dawn” not really
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“The Mortal Instruments: The City of Bones” By Cassandra Clare centers a protagonist character name Clary Fray. Clary Fray represents throughout the story as a young stubborn‚ determined‚ reckless teenage girl yet she also very caring and adventurous character by heart. Her unique looks what makes her personality clicked together. Just like her mother she has red curly hair a slender figure‚ her fashion is mostly of a loose comfy clothes. At the beginning of the story the viewer can see Clary just
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The emphasis on "Richard Bone" by Edgar Lee Masters expresses the thought and value of one who has passed away to the afterlife and is exhibited as something they are not.This poem intrigues me because it shows the different ways of how someone is perceived to be despite‚ being dead or alive.I like how it consists of much relatable content like the judgmental factor of how someone’s description changes once they have died. This relates to our world today because many peoples perspective on their
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A month after my second bone biopsy at the age of ten‚ I was diagnosed with a rare growth related bone disease called fibrous dysplasia. I still remember the day when my Dad told me‚ the “lab results are benign”. In the instance a pressure was lifted from my shoulders and I was filled with joy and the highest level of gratitude. In the following weeks I quickly learned that life was going to be an adjustment to manage my health. For I had an unexplained tumor‚ that could not be removed for it would
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You might have thanked the trees for giving oxygen but never phytoplankton. What can they do except try to steal the Krusty Krab formula? Well‚ what if I said that without phytoplankton‚ the entire marine ecosystem collapse‚ an increase of 1/3 accumulation of CO2‚ and oxygen drop up to 50 percent in the atmosphere‚ which will lead to human extinction. Sounds dramatic‚ but it is true. I seriously think that we need to care more about these planktons‚ since they are not unlimited in the ocean‚ and
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