Children of the Genecide, The Rwandan Girl Who refused to die

These two stories, to say the least, are terrible, and show you that there are genuinely evil people in this world. The children of genocide story was impacting, however it was nothing in comparison to the girl who refused to die. This real tale is by far one of the most gruesome and disgusting stories i have ever heard. The author sets the mood just by talking about how this girl was so badly injured, saying "Her hand had been chopped in half and the wound had become infected. It had taken on an ominous black colour." That made me look at my own hand and be thankful that we do not live in that kind world. Also, thinking of your neighbours walking around town killing the people you love is disgusting. We dont realize that this sort of madness actually happens, because the only way we see this is in movies and in books. These articles are similar in the way that they show how bad life is for children in Rwanda, and how bad it has been for a long long time. However they are different in the pure fact that The Rwandan Girl Who Refused To Die is just so much more gruesome and it makes me feel terrible just reading about it. The author said, ""You have eight children, how in God's name can you help to kill a child?" to one of the men who was responsible for many of the murders. I respect the author because he called this man out and got angry with him. I would've done the same. The man responded saying that he was just following orders to kill every living person. In that situation, I would say screw your orders and screw whoever gave you those orders, because killing innocent children is just wrong, and this man deserves to die. The Rwandan Girl without a doubt impacted me more due to the sheer darkness and evil of this article. These people are sick, and all deserve to die. There was a boy who "had seen a man decapitated in front of him and then a pregnant woman cut open." This without a doubt shows darkness and evil in humanity, while at the same time impacting the reader because unless you live there, you have no idea what it is like to go through that kind of situation.

The Cask of Amontillado Response

How is the setting developed? The setting is developed by the author saying where they are (Italy), and he deeply explains the catacombs of which they travel to.
How is the author conveying the sense of evil? He conveys the sense of evil because when his "friend" is crying for help, he just laughs and mocks whatever his "friend" is saying.
The character is a symbol of evil, this is because even though he never killed his friend, he left him to die and ignored any requests for help.
The factor that contributed to his actions was that Fortunato made an unspecified insult that made him angry.
The roots of his behaviour are that he is very high on himself, so any little remark will make him angry, thus making him kill his friend.
The character impacted me the most because the plot and setting seemed very normal, but this story was sinister and evil becuase of the character.