After getting married to the only woman he ever loved, Esther, Ruse and his wife went to Yaodunde so he could study religion. After a while of study, however, Ruse realized that this was not the course he wished to follow in his career. He and his wife then moved back to Kigali so he could pursue some other field of work. Kigali resembles Washington DC in the sense that it is a capital city placed in an unbiased section of the country, so as not to upset any of the people. When Ruse, Esther and their two children moved to Kigali, Ruse vowed that he would stay there no matter what.
This shows responsibility in Ruse, because though he came from a very specific part of Rwanda he chose an unbiased and reasonably more safe place to raise his family.
In the middle of the chapter Ruse recalls that a childhood friend of his got him a job at the Hotel Mille Collines, and soon he was so good at his job at the front counter that he was offered a scholarship to a college of hospitality.
In this chapter, Ruse also establishes another damaging seperation among the people of Rwanda. The northern Hutus(the Hutus who come from the north most sections of Rwanda) felt themselves better than the rest of the Hutus.
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I agree that Ruse’s decision to live in Yaodunde shows maturity and points out that he doesn’t hold hatred in his heart for others solely based on race. I was surprised to learn that he was offered scholarship to a college (I assume he attended) because I didn’t think there was one in Rwanda since I didn’t think it was a very big country and mostly because I didn’t believe the majority of the people could afford it.
I also found it disturbing that the Hutus of the same race were turning against each other. Do these “snobbish” Hutus eventually slaughter the other Hutus?
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