Honors World Lit final Flashcards
Colonized Rwanda after wwI
Belgians
Make up 85% of Rwanda’s population. This group traditionally farmed crops. They were marginalized by the countries colonizers.
Hutu
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in this village and had many happy experiences and memories there.
Mataba
Teacher who called out Immaculee for being a Tutsi during rollcall
Búhoro
Make up 14% of Rwanda’s population. they traditionally tended livestock. They were given power by the colonizers.
Tutsi
Immaculee received a scholarship to the National University in this city.
Butare
She met this man in college, he was Protestant, they dated for a couple years. Her parents were more concerned with him being a Protestant rather than him being a Tutsi.
John
President who organized a youth movement aimed at fighting Tutsi rebels
Juvenal Habyarimana
Imaculee’s home provence called __ to celebrate Easter with her family.
Kibuye
On April 6, 1994, the presidents plane was shot down near Rwandas capital named ___
Kigali
Imaculee’s family found comfort of the messages from _______, the leader of the Tutsi revels. he promised that if the Hutus didn’t stop killing Tutsis, the rebels would invade Rwanda to help protect them.
Paul Kagame
Paul Kagame’s army was known
Rwandan Patriotic Front or RPF
Imaculee’s father sent her to the home of this person for safety
Pastor Murinzi
The name of Imaculee’s father
Leonard
Imaculee’s childhoood best friend who did not help her or associate with her because she was Tutsi
Janet
Pastor Murinzi sent her brother Vianney and this person away from his house because it was “‘too dangerous to protect men”
Augustine
Imaculee’s beloved Damascene was killed at te hands of this childhood friend
Samahe
The only other member of Imaculee’s family to survive the genocide becuase he was studying in Senegal away from the violence
Aimable
At the French camp, Immaculee reunites with this one of her brothers longtime friend-she was horrified by the truths he revealed to her
Jean Paul
Margaret Atwood’s “Bread” is written from this point of view
Second person - put the reader in the experiences described
Sandra cisneros was born here
Chicago
Sandra Cisneros took frequent summer trips to
Mexico
Cisneros’ father’s thoughts on her career are detailed in this short story
“His Story”
In this story, Cisneros uses powerful metaphors to capture memories of her grandfather
“Abuelito Who”
In this story, a group of siblings are marginalized by American society, Mexican society, and even their grandmother
“‘Mericans”
This grandmother spends the entire story praying to Our Lady of Guadeloupe at the Hill of
Tepeyac
Cleofilas struggles with a life far from what shed dreamed while watching telenovelas in
“Women Hollering Creek”
Juan Pedro seems to life a life of affluence in this place, but Cleofilas soon discovers this isn’t true
Texas
The young girls in this story struggle with American materialism and stereotypes/standards for women
“Barbie-Q”
“Barbie-Q” is written from this pov
Second-“You” are eager to acquire more Barbies and their accessories as you read
Gabriel Garcia Marquez if known for writing in this style/ genre where unexpected, supernatural elements are infused into an otherwise realistic piece of fiction and never explained
Magical Realism
Many Critics believe that Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s writings were influenced by this period of violent civil unrest in Columbia
La Violencia
The couple in “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” are named
Elisenda and Pelayo
“The Handsomest Drown Man in the World” is named
Esteban