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    The document discusses why people can be cruel as seen in the genocide depicted in the film Hotel Rwanda. It describes how the Hutus massacred and harassed Tutsis for no reason other than feeling powerful by putting the Tutsis down. Though Paul, a Hutu, tried to save his Tutsi family and friends, violence escalated quickly as people stopped thinking about right and wrong and instead focused on getting revenge. The document argues that fights start due to choices to do wrong for power and control, and that if even one person had stopped and thought about doing the right thing, the fighting could have been prevented from spiraling out of control and resulting in death.

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    The document discusses why people can be cruel as seen in the genocide depicted in the film Hotel Rwanda. It describes how the Hutus massacred and harassed Tutsis for no reason other than feeling powerful by putting the Tutsis down. Though Paul, a Hutu, tried to save his Tutsi family and friends, violence escalated quickly as people stopped thinking about right and wrong and instead focused on getting revenge. The document argues that fights start due to choices to do wrong for power and control, and that if even one person had stopped and thought about doing the right thing, the fighting could have been prevented from spiraling out of control and resulting in death.

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    The document discusses why people can be cruel as seen in the genocide depicted in the film Hotel Rwanda. It describes how the Hutus massacred and harassed Tutsis for no reason other than feeling powerful by putting the Tutsis down. Though Paul, a Hutu, tried to save his Tutsi family and friends, violence escalated quickly as people stopped thinking about right and wrong and instead focused on getting revenge. The document argues that fights start due to choices to do wrong for power and control, and that if even one person had stopped and thought about doing the right thing, the fighting could have been prevented from spiraling out of control and resulting in death.

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    Hotel Rwanda

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    The document discusses why people can be cruel as seen in the genocide depicted in the film Hotel Rwanda. It describes how the Hutus massacred and harassed Tutsis for no reason other than feeling powerful by putting the Tutsis down. Though Paul, a Hutu, tried to save his Tutsi family and friends, violence escalated quickly as people stopped thinking about right and wrong and instead focused on getting revenge. The document argues that fights start due to choices to do wrong for power and control, and that if even one person had stopped and thought about doing the right thing, the fighting could have been prevented from spiraling out of control and resulting in death.

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    Spyropoulos, 1

    Andréa Spyropoulos

    Ms. Burke

    English

    April, 28, 2011

    Hotel Rwanda: Why are people so cruel?

    In Hotel Rwanda, Paul’s friend asks him “Why are people so cruel?” In hotel Rwanda, the Tutsis are

    being harassed and massacred by the Hutus. The Hutus fire genocide bombs killing several Tutsis for no

    reason at all but the feeling that the Hutus are in power, putting the Tutsis down. Paul, a Hutu, has a

    wife who is a Tutsi and refuses to watch his family die. Paul sacrifices his life to save his family and

    friends and is seen as a trader to the Hutus. But, why are people so cruel and want to create such a

    problem?

    Fights start by choice. They start when a person chooses to do the wrong thing to feel like they have

    power and to feel like they are in control, like what the Hutus did to the Tutsis. The fights escalate and

    sooner or later, people are physically hitting each other with their fists. The fighting gets out of control

    and suddenly there are bombs being dropped and people getting hurt. When people fight, they do not

    think about what the right thing to do really is, they think about getting back at the person or people

    they are trying to hurt. If one person from the Hutus stopped fighting, really thought about what they

    were doing, and helped the Hutus realise that what they are doing is wrong, the fighting could’ve

    stopped. Not one person really thought about what they were doing to the Tutsis, and everything got

    out of control.
    Spyropoulos, 2

    When things get rough and escalate more and more, it’s better to think about what the right thing to do

    is before things get out of control. A fight like what happened to the Tutsis shouldn’t have to come

    down to people getting killed. All that people have to do is think about what the right thing to do is.

    People are not born cruel, people are cruel by choice.

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