Running For His Life By Michael Hall Summary

In the article, “Running for His Life,” the journalist Michael Hall shares a dramatic story of Gilbert Tuhabonye, who was a runner and a survivor of the Rwandan Genocide. Michael Hall narrates Tuhabonye’s horrendous story about how as a kid, him and thousands of other students at Kibimba School in Burundi at three in the morning some of the students were either beaten or burned alive by friends or relatives that they knew. This was between the Hutu mob and Tutsi. In order for him to not suffer from the pain he wanted to kill himself. However, he heard a voice saying, “You don’t want to die. Don’t do that.” He escaped by breaking through windows because he wanted his friends and family to identify his body. He jumped in the darkness, but no one saw him. His health was

In the first place, Hall notes that Tubabonye says, “After a while it started falling on me, and I held up my right arm as it came down, trying to pull bodies over me” (601). This quotation shows that he was using the bodies as shelter to protect his head from the fire. His at a bad time in his life that he wants to commit suicide. He was so confused that he was hearing other people telling him to not kill himself. Second, Hall states that Tubabanye thinks, “I grabbed a bone—it was hot in my hands- and used it to break the bar on the window” (602). This quotation shows that Tubabanye is trying to escape. He doesn’t want to die like everyone else. He heard voices telling him to get out so he grabbed one of the bodies bone that was next to him. This strategy that he used helped him survive. Finally, Hall remarks that Tubabanye believes, “I wanted to be identifiable” (602). This quotation shows that he did not want to ashes to be left by him like everybody else. He wanted his body to be recognized by his parents to know that he passed away; instead of seeing ashes on the floor. Tubabanye was finding ways to stay