Immaculee Quotes

In the year of 1994 and estimated eight-hundred thousand Rwandans were killed between April and June. There was not a day were the Tutsis was not being killed by the Hutus. Imagine one-hundred days of straight killings of your friends and family. It would leave you in a never-ending nightmare and you would be scarred for the rest of your life. Imagine if you were stuck in a bathroom so small that it could barely fit two people in there but you had five or six more people in there. It would be hot, it would smell, and it would be uncomfortable. Immaculée Ilibagiza had to go through the entire Rwandan Genocide in this type of situation. She barely ate and barely went to the bathroom because if the Hutu heard Immaculée or any of the other girls

Her family was insanely important to her and to prove this there is a quote in the book Left to Tell: "I wish I had known that night was to be our last family supper together. I would have stood up and thanked God for all of them. I would have told everyone sitting around that table how much I loved them and thanked them for loving me. But I didn't."(Immaculée and Erwin 41). Immaculée's family consisted of Marie Rose Kankindi her mother, Leonard Ukulikiyinkindi her father, and her three brothers Damascene Jean Muhirwa, John Marie Vianney Kazaneza, Aimable Ntukanyagwe. Aimable was her oldest brother and was not in Rwanda during the days of the genocide thankfully, but her other two brothers Damascene and John Vianney were not as lucky as Aimable was sadly. Her family was so important to her because she knew it was the only family she had and she knew that bad things would happen and they were the only people who would help her in her tough times and heartbreak times. Immaculée loved Vianney the most because he is the youngest child and in the family and Immaculée felt that she has to care for Vanney because he is the youngest and because he is very lovable and everybody likes him according to Immaculée and her description of Vianney. Before the genocide started Immaculée was kicked out of school for not knowing if she was Hutu, Tutsi, or Twa. He parents never told Immaculée that she was Tutsi before that time

Immaculée had friends who were Hutus and in the beginning of the genocide such as one her most dearest friends and Immaculée could even call Janet family. "I staggered into the hall and leaned against the wall. How could my dearest friend turn against me? We'd loved each other like sisters once-how could she be so cruel now? How was it possible for a heart to harden so quickly?"When Immaculée and Vianney show up to the pastor's house Janet said she would never hide a Tutsi in her house. The pastor told Immaculée that her little brother Vianney has to go in the morning. She was furious but she knew it would have to be for the best for Vianney and hopefully he survives the genocide. Immaculée hid in a bathroom with seven girls Athanasia (14), Beata (12), Therese (55), Claire, Sandra, Malaba, and Solange. For three months these girls were in a bathroom with each other. They kind of became a small family from this and even made their own sign language so they could talk to each other. Therese had some family in the bathroom which was her kids. They didn’t argue about anything because there wasn’t anything to argue about and they only had each other to talk to in the intensely small bathroom. The girls in the bathroom did not know what was happening outside of the bathroom so they were important to each other for those three months. When the French arrived Immaculée and all