Summary of Hotel Rwanda
As ethnic Hutus began killing their Tutsi neighbors, Rusesabagina—a Hutu married to a Tutsi woman—turned his hotel into an impromptu refugee camp for more than a thousand terrified Tutsis and moderate Hutus. The history of the Tutsi and Hutus conflict leading up to 1994.
Deserted by international peacekeepers, Rusesabagina began cashing in every favor he had ever earned, bribing the Rwandan Hutu soldiers and keeping the bloodthirsty militia (mostly) outside the gates during the hundred days of slaughter. Paul Rusesabagina is a man of quiet, steady competence in a time of chaos. He is not the hero who would stand up and fight, but the kind of man who knows how things work in the real world, who uses his skills of bribery, flattery, apology and deception to save these lives who have come into his care."Hotel managers would make excellent diplomats. They speak several languages. They are discreet. They know how to function appropriately in different cultures. They know when a bottle of scotch will repay itself six times over. They know how to handle complaints." By using his skills he uses everyday with his job, he ends up saving 1,200 lives.
In the end, he survived along with his wife and three children, as did most of the refugees he sheltered.
Now his heroic story is recounted in Hotel Rwanda, a gripping account of a genocide that claimed an estimated 800,000 lives, mainly Tutsis but also many moderate Hutus.
The Human Condition
This movie shows good example of the human condition. Human condition means the situation, or condition, in which every human being finds himself or herself by virtue of being human. In other words, what experiences do all human beings share regardless of their sex, age, culture, religion or social status. Some people feel the effects stronger than others. Some feel these effect more extreme than others. Paul feels the need to protect his family above all and this is a positive thing. The generals and soldiers on the other hand suffer from some of the general feelings of the human condtion expressed by Blaise Pascal Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom and anxiety. The Generals feel the worst effects of the human condition. They fell bored when not drinking or killing so they search for boose or Tutsis to kill. Then after doing this they feel the anxiety to do this over and over again.
Three Kinds of Knowledge
The three kinds of knowledge are experience, authority, and reason. Rusesabagina has all three kinds of this knowledge. He learned to deal with the generals because of his past in bribing for the hotel. He has learned to take charge and authority by being the manager of a large hotel. He has reason because he wants to save his family, who are the most important thing to him. Having these three kinds of knowledge led to him being able to save himself, his family, and the 1,200 other tutsis in his hotel. More on the three kinds of knowledge
Faith
Faith and faith were showed many times in many people throughout this movie. Faith is allegiance to duty or a person: loyalty. Faith is belief and trust in and loyalty to God. Faith is something this is believed, especially with strong conviction. Paul has faith in many things throughout the movie. He has faith in money or boose to get him out of a problem. He has faith in his boss to get him out of any trouble. He has faith in his family that they will listen to him and love him. He has faith in that the hotel . Paul is a man of great faith in many things, sometimes the wrong things. As the movie progresses he begins to find out what he should really have faith in and what he had false faith in. He is a man of great faith by the time the movie ends.
Challenges to Faith
Thomas Hobbes was an english philosopher who said "the life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." When some firsts sees this movie they may begin to believe this to. The conditions to being with in Rwanda are nasty. More that 800,000 thousand people died in 100 days. Life is short. Many children lost there parents. Life is solitary. After the genocide many people were poor because of Rwanda's poor economy. Life is poor. If a person lived through this, they may not have arms or legs because they were hacked off. Live is brutal. In some ways Thomas Hobbes is right. But for the 1200 people that lived because of one mans generosity, they were truly thankful and look at every day longer they live as a blessing.
Materialism
Materialism is the belief that there is nothing beyond physical matter. The greedy Generals believed in this. They would risk there life or not follow an order for some extra cash. They believed cash was king. Paul did not care much for anything when his wife and children were in danger. He gave everything he owned to save them and other people he didn't even know.
Here are some web sites used in helping me make this site
This is a website I made earlier in the year about Romeo Dallaore. He tried his best to save as many people as he could in this genocide , but failed in doing much. Romeo Dallaore Website
