Crit Essay (update) Flashcards
P1.
Topic sentence
The impact of what happened was so traumatic that…
”far from the darkness of those roads we found ourselves wordless”
Darkness conveys not only trafficking at night…. Lack of light and hope as devastation of killings would have been overwhelming
P2.
Topic sentence
The slaughter which took place was overwhelming and the harsh…
”that smell on your clothes, on your skin for weeks afterwards lifting a glass to to it skin or sitting down to eat it could come flashing back”
Keane coneys v powerfully the trauma that he felt directly after the genocide.
Sense of a sensory experience….
P3
A further reinforcement of the toll the Rwandan genocide had on Keane is highlighted when he describes what he saw as ‘flashing back’…
Topic sentence
Keane cannot help but….
Wasn’t enough
”the Americans who had bickered over funding of armoured vehicles which might have been used to protect the beleaguered Tutsi population now rushed to organise the airdrops”
Describes in detail difference in attitude
P4
Topic sentence
Proved to him why it’s important … and why he cares so much about..
Highlights in vivid detail that turning…. Just as bad as the perpetrators.
”if we ignore evil, we become the authors of a guilty silence”
Keane also explains that he shows interest in… experience helped him realise…
”I will care so much about what happens in these remote African countries as Rwanda has taught me to value life in a way I never have before”
