In an attempt to escapes the killing spree of Tutsis Deo ran away as fast as he could. He didn’t know to where he was running to but he knew that if he wanted to live he had to continue moving away from the killings. One day as he rested he encountered a Hutu woman. Tired and delirious Deo pleaded for his life and he ask the women if he was to die to please not torture him. The Hutu woman replied to Deo that she was not there to kill him but instead she was going to help him. The Hutu woman told Deo “I’m a woman and I’m a mother.” (Pg 127) Even though being of opposite social class the women did not see Deo as a Tutsi, she saw him as a person, as someone’s son. In the majority of cases, individuals personal struggles, moral, and group influences the power to shape the individual as an adult and motivate them to be kind rather than violent.
The being part of a social group or the need to be part of a group could lead people to interact positively others. The first teaching of what is right or wrong a child receives begins in the home were parents/ care takers teach children through example, lecture, and interaction. This was seen in the book when Deo was around the age of 7. Deo first cam aware of Hutu, Hutus, Tutsis classification and this cause him curiosity and to ask his family about it. His family taught Deo that those terms were degrading and not to use them. Deo’s family was a positive influence that taught him to respect other and also the importance of education.
Many times people personal experiences cause them to want to help other. They do this because they know the feelings pain and suffering and don’t wish others to go through they same. The Hutu woman that helped Deo had gone through the loss on a son, husband, and friends, and she had suffered because of the ridicule of others for being married to a Hutu, and these personal experiences was what drove her to help Deo escape. This women felt the pain and new that the killings were wrong and did want to take part of in it. She did not want to cause pain and maybe in helping she also was able to alleviate her own pain.
Morality is learned though different forms and inspires people to perform acts of kindness it giving them a rewarding feeling. Sharon an ex nun, that Deo meet through one of his grocery deliveries, felt the need to help Deo. Though we don’t know much of Sharon the fact that she was once a nun causes us to assume that she had a strong sense of morals and as Deo fed her little bits of his past she knew that he needed help. In part many people volunteer because they feel like they are able to make a difference and this not own makes them happy but also the people who are receiving the help. This could cause those receiving the help to have learned something special and make them also want to spread their happiness and cause them too to want to perform acts of kindness.
Though acts of violence are not found to far from acts of kindness, in general I think it is safe to says that the world is more positive that negative. Negativity is just more apparent because of the devastation it causes. I have faith the most of us learn from our experiences, have good sense of morals and are usually surrounded by those that will positively and motivate us to want to make a difference in the world, these thing are what motivate the acts of kindness.
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