First Reading

4/17/2015

Post your questions here.

Bailey Hatfield

4/17/2015 07:23:23 am

An ordinary man questions

Beyond Q
1) why do you think he included himself being able to hide people in his hotel this text?
2) why would he include the size and description of his home growing up?

Obvious
1)when was the mass murder?
2) how many people did he hide in his hotel where he worked at?
3) What's igihango mean?

Lucy Jones

4/19/2015 06:48:57 am

In Between the Lines:
1) Why did Paul remember when his father settled the argument between the two quarreling neighbors?
2) Why is the "race" determined by the father and not the mother?
3) Why does Paul love helping his mother with her chores so much?

Big Picture
1) Is the message of this book going to be how words can determine so much?
2) Will Paul resent his life because of his lineage?

Allison Cobb

4/19/2015 10:17:31 am

In between the lines:
1.)why does Paul look forward to helping his mother with chores
2.)why does he go in so much detail about banana beer? What is the significance
3.) why is is father's voice so respected in the elders

Big picture:
1.)what does the hotel have to do with the massacre
2.) how does his father's words contribute to him today

Taylor Bonham

4/19/2015 12:54:15 pm

In between the lines:
1) why did the militia choose to never harm the men in any way?
2) why was his hotel chosen out of the others and what made his hotel important enough to be chosen to "survive"?
3) what is the importance of describing his old house in detail so much?
Big Picture:
1) is the only difference between the two races the appearance and if so why is that considered a big deal?
2) what role does his father play in the long run of molding his personality?

Mckinley Sewell

4/19/2015 08:16:41 pm

Mine would not post last night I tried again this morning and it let me

In between the lines:
1.what does igihango mean
2.How many people did he hind in the hotel?
3. Why did he keep referring to his child hood

Big picture:
1.what role does his dad play ?
2. What does the hotel have to do with the massacre?

Alex Mayes

4/20/2015 02:52:19 am

Between lines:
What was the topography/geography of Rwanda like?
What was the narrator's father temperament like?
How was the banana beer made?
Beyond lines: how is race going to play a role in the plot of the book?
How does the lifestyle of the Rwandans compare to your life, and how do they act differently when it comes to kindness and hospitality?

Brandon O'Daniel

4/20/2015 09:57:08 am

Between the lines:
1) How did his father affect the main character's morals and general outlook on life?
2) What about his father was so worthy of respect?
3) Why did he always want to help his mother?

Beyond the lines:
1) What effect did "Peter"'s turning against his neighbors have on the author's mind?

2) Would you be able to survive, mentally as well as physically, watching your neighbors kill each other with machetes?

Shamus

4/20/2015 11:40:55 am

Between the lines.
How did his skills suit the hotel buisseness.
Did others view of him matter
Deos he live up to his fathers expectation
Beyond the lines
Why did he speak so little of his first wife and his children.
Deos he understand the sadness of the events or deos being born into it make them more manageable

Tay Bonham

4/20/2015 08:59:49 pm

idek if this is where I post second reading questions or not butttttt
Between the lines:
1) did the things Paul learned in preacher studies apply to anything else in his life and how so?
2) what role does the radio station play with the developing of the story?
3) what did Paul discover that most people wanted and how did he use this to his advantage?
Obvious
1) who owned the radio station?
2) What country supplied the machetes for the massacre?

Bailey hatfield

4/20/2015 10:52:36 pm

An ordinary man questions

Beyond Q
1) how did he become a hotel manager there if he wasn't supposed to be that?
2) why would they teach them all the different religions in the sense of making the children sing hymns and stuff from all different religions?

Obvious
1)what did the elite suppliers get ?
2) what corporation founded The Mille Collines
3) What's je commence mean?

Lucy Jones

4/21/2015 01:51:34 am

Between the lines
1. Why did he feel like he let down hi parents even though he accomplished so much?
2. Was it distance or personalities that caused his first divorce?
3. How does he feel about raising his kids in the city instead of the country?

Beyond the line
1. He makes a point to say he made it known "even to his white coworkers" that he was the boss. Is there racial conflict within the hotel or society itself?
2. Following the question above, he says he is the first black general manager of the other hotel. Will that have any benifits or consequences during the genocide?

McKinley sewell

4/21/2015 02:25:19 am

Between the lines:
1. How does he feel about raising his kids in the city?
2. What did the elite suppliers get ?
3.why did he feel that he let his parents down

Beyond the lines:

1.how did he become a hotel manager

2.why do they teach them all different religions

Alex Mayes

4/21/2015 02:50:54 am

Between lines:
1) when was the hotel Mille Collines built?
2) what kinds of people stay in the hotel?
3) what day is the Sabbath day in their culture?
Beyond lines:
1) what does Paul mean when he says he became a hotel manager by accident?
2) how does the social structure of their society affect the way the plot of the book is set up?

Raegan Coyote

4/21/2015 03:07:36 am

Between tween the lines:
1)what are some differences in the people who stay at each hotel?
2) why did he decide to become a hotel manager
3)how did city life differ from country life? Why did he want to live in the city?
Beyond the lines:
1)what happened between him and his first wife...?
2)why did the whole genocide start? How/why did their races first begin to hate each other?

Allison Cobb

4/21/2015 03:09:40 am

Between the lines:
When was the hotel built
Why did he divorce his first wife
What happened to his first child with his second wife

Beyond the lines
How did he become a hotel manager in accident
Why did his father say the proverb before he died

Bailey H

4/21/2015 08:02:49 am

An ordinary man questions

Beyond Q
1) why would he wish that the hotel radio stations name was not similar to that of his hotel?
2) how could RTLM tell which citizens were trustworthy or not, is doing this safe for the citizens who tell insight about the nation?

Obvious
1)what is a disk jockey?
2) why is news such a big deal to the people?
3) What's mwami mean?

Courtney Mullins

4/21/2015 09:10:23 am

In between the lines:
1.) What influenced him in his life to have the job he had?
2.) Why does Paul want to help his mom do all the chores so bad?
3.) What is the significance of the banana beer?

Beyond the lines:
1.) What is a igihango?
2.) How many people did he hide in his hotel?

Courtney

4/21/2015 09:17:31 am

In between the lines:
1.) What does the hotel name, Mille Collines, mean?
2.) How did he hide everyone?

Beyond the lines:
1.) What happened with his ex wife?
2.) Why does he want his kids to be raised in the city and not the country?

shamus the mighty dark lord

4/21/2015 10:42:39 am

questions
ch4
between the lines
What affect did the radio station have on the populouse
why did paul dislike the radio so much
how did france affect rwanda longterm
beyond the line
How did pauls attitude affect how he was about rebelling
Did paul think through his actions when he rebelled

Ethan Rudd

4/21/2015 01:34:04 pm

Chapter 4 Questions

Beyond:
1.Why do you think he went into so much detail about the radio station?
2.How did RTLM affect the people of Rwanda?

Between:
1. Why did he refuse to wear President Habyarimana's picture on his jacket?
2. Why was he forced to go to the president's office every day for a month?
3. What does akazu mean?

Lucy Jones

4/21/2015 09:50:55 pm

In between the lines
1. Why did Paul make a point to talk about the new radio station so much
2. Why did Paul refuse to wear the presidents pin?
3. What was the significance of the repeated process of the presidents men yelling at Paul then kicking him out?

Beyond the line
1. Will Paul's actions against the president be representitive of the Tutsi refugees/rebels?
2. Is the president and his men the "hyenas" his father warned him about?

ben quintero

4/21/2015 11:09:54 pm

Between the line:
What was the reason that Paul did not wear the medallion with the presidents face on it?
Why did Paul never tell his father about his run-in with the president?
What is the word Interahamwe translated to English?

Beyond the line:
Do you be live that Paul's wife was actually being warned of a kidnapping or were they just trying to be scared?
How did the radio station and newspaper effect the citizens?

Allison Cobb

4/22/2015 01:19:22 am

1. Why did he not like the radio station
2. Why did Paul refuse to wear the button
3. Why did the radio play the song "I hate Hutus"

1. What is the significance of the new public radio
2. Why is it important that Paul says "the irony of this show of muscle was that the president was not really in control of his own power base"

Alex Mayes

4/22/2015 02:47:17 am

Between the lines:
Why did Paul talk about the radio so much?
What significance will the radio station play in the plot?
Why did Paul not wear the pin that he was given by the president?
Beyond lines:
How is the interaction with the president and Paul foreshadowing future events?
How is the president going to effect the conflict between the Hutus and Tutsis?

Raegan coyote

4/22/2015 03:10:28 am

Between the lines
1)how did the radio progress and change?
2) how did the things that were said on the radio Change people's perspectives?
3) why did Paul refuse to where the presidents pin?
Beyond the lines
1)how did the radio affect the citizens and do things like this still happen today?
2) is the president going to help/worsen the fight between the races... If so what will he do

Mckinley sewell

4/22/2015 03:15:14 am

Between the lines:
1.why did he not like the radio station
2.why did he not want to wear the pin
3.why did Paul never tell his about him running for president

Beyond the lines
1.what is the significance of the radio station
2.how is the interaction with the president going to effect the conflict between the Hutus and turtsis

Bailey H

4/22/2015 08:00:48 am

An ordinary man questions

Beyond Q
1) why is he just now starting to use so much dialogue?
2) Why does Paul compare Rwanda to America so much?

Obvious
1)why did they want to brush off Jean Pierres warnings ?
2) what's cordial mean?
3) Who is in power right now?

shamus the murloc

4/22/2015 08:30:57 pm

ch5
between the lines
deos his use off words here forshadow more in the future.
what was the most important thing paul noticed about tthe captain.
How did he keep everyone safe
beyond
why deos he not seem to fear the people who stop him.
was it luck or skill that brings him to surviving

ben quintero

4/22/2015 10:56:10 pm

Between the lines:
Why couldn't the major help Paul get to the Diplomates Hotel?
Where did Tresor go during in the chaos in the morning?
Why does Paul want to go to the Hotel Mille Collines instead of staying at the Diplomates?

Beyond the lines:
Who do you think shot down the plane, the Tutsis, the Belgians or the Hutus themself?
Why do you think the Captain never looked him in the eyes?

Ethan Rudd

4/23/2015 02:32:13 am

Chapter 5 Questions

Between:
1.Why couldn't the major help Paul get to the Diplomats Hotel?
2.What was the most important Paul noticed about the captain?
3.How does he keep everyone safe?

Beyond:
1. Who do you think shot down the plane?
2.Why does Paul compare Rwanda to America?

Raegan coyote

4/23/2015 02:40:16 am

between the lines:
1)why does Paul try and relate everything back to America?
2)why couldn't he get help to safely get to the hotel?
Beyond the lines:
1)why would the Tutsis shoot down the plane?
2) who would be behind the shooting, what would their reasonings be to start the killings
3)why should/shouldn't we believe everything Paul is saying?

Lucy Jones

4/23/2015 03:05:32 am

In between the Line
1. What helped Paul get into the Hotel Mille-Collines?
2.Why did Paul prefer the Hotel Mille-Collines over the Hotel Diplomates?
3. What was important about the captain?

Beyond the lines
1. Does Paul compare to Rwanda to America to help the readers make connections?
2. What is the benefit for the Hutus IF they shot down the plane?

McKinley sewell

4/23/2015 03:31:55 am

Between:
1.Why couldn't the major help Paul get to the Diplomats Hotel?
2.What was the most important Paul noticed about the captain?
3.How does he keep everyone safe?

Beyond:
1. Who do you think shot down the plane?
2.Why does Paul compare Rwanda to America?

Alex Mayes

4/23/2015 05:55:22 am

Between lines:
What was Paul doing when the attack happened?
How did word spread of the attack?
Do you think all of this could have been stopped if the UN helped out?
Beyond lines:
Who do you think really shot down the presidents plane?
Why do you think Paul goes into so much detail about the killings?

Bailey H

4/23/2015 10:55:03 am

Obvious
1) why was the captain such a big deal?
2) How did everyone know about the attack so quickly?
3) why doesn't paul want to go to the Mille Collins?

Beyond Q
1) Do you think the attack could have been prevented?
2) Why doesn't Paul include more specific dates of the events, like time of day or anything to create imagery?

Alex Mayes

4/28/2015 03:12:23 am

Beyond line/ answers ( I was absent)
1) Yes I definitely think the conflict could have been prevented. If the UN or the USA would have stepped in, there were many many lives that could be spared.
2) He does include specific dates? He says the exact day and time when many of the main events happen. I'm not sure what you mean by this question.

Shamus the leader of demons

4/23/2015 11:03:01 am

ch6
between the lines
why did paul say the hotel people acted well
why did they resort to pool water over other sources
did they have much food

beyond the lines
how did paul keep such a level head with leading the hotel

why did the people in the hotel behave so well

Alex Mayes

4/23/2015 11:15:07 am

Between lines:
How did Paul make it from his house with the refugees into the hotel without being killed?
How did Paul gain management of the hotel when he got there?
What did they turn to when they had no other water source?
Beyond lines:
What about Paul makes him such a good leader?
Why do the Hutus and Tutsi refugees in the hotel interact and accept each other without fighting?

Lucy Jones

4/24/2015 02:27:20 am

1. Why was Paul put in charge of management?
2. How did news of the attacks spread?
3. Why did they not have any water?

Beyond the line
1. Why is there no violence between the patrons of the hotel?
2. How does Paul stay so calm

Lucy Jones

4/27/2015 10:14:06 pm

Between the lines(multiple chapters)
1. Why didn't the U.S. help any?
2. What was really important to Paul, the Hotel or his family?
3. Why did Paul take charge of the refugee camp?

Beyond
1. What consequences will the U.S. face in the future for not aiding Rwanda during the genocide?
2. How is the power of words and propaganda evident within the entire story, and if this happened in America would we be so easily swayed to massacre our neighbors?

Logan Ashley aka mc splosion

4/27/2015 11:10:28 pm

Between
1. Why was the us absent in helping Rwanda?
2. Why did the general visit?
3. How did Paul keep everyone safe?
Beyond
1. What will come from the general and pauls new found friendship?
2. What did the late help from the us cause people of Rwanda to think?

Alex Mayes

4/28/2015 12:18:36 am

Chapters 7-9
Between lines:
1) How did Paul avoid the assassins killing Thomas?
2) What strategy did he use in his arguments with the killers?
3) What role did the phone play in the saving of many lives?
4) How did Paul escape having to evacuate the hotel?
5) Why do you think Paul went into so much detail about each life he saved?
6) Why did the USA not join in to help the Rwandans?
7) Why did Paul not leave when he had the chance the first time?
8) What happened to his family when they tried to escape?
9) How did the hotel residents escape being mass murdered by the swimming pool?
Beyond lines:
1) Do you think the plot would've turned out differently if there were more phones available?
2) Do you think the USA could've stopped or prevented most of the killings in the genocide?
3) Why did Paul not want to leave?
4) Do you think you could've stayed and helped like Paul did?
5) Did the way Paul acted and thought about life inspire you to think/act differently?
6) Without Paul, how do you think the genocide would've been different?
7) o you think anything like this could happen in our world today?
8) How is this genocide similar to others in the past?

Bailey Hatfield

4/28/2015 12:58:23 am

An ordinary man questions chapter 7

Beyond Q
1) why did the foreign policy leave Rwanda?
2) Why did the White House refuse to help Paul and the hotel?

Obvious
1) why did they want to kill a dog?
2) where is Kabeza?
3) why was the chain of command vague and confusing?

An ordinary man questions chapter 8

Beyond Q
1) why did the people in the hotel go to the refugee at Amahoro Stadium and help them?
2) how is bringing up the Black Hawk Down incident supporting his idea if it symbolized everything that could go wrong with a peacekeeping mission?

Obvious
1) in Paul's flashback, he says he never wanted to awake Tatiana. Why?
2) why would the Tutsi wives kill their husbands who has sworn to love and cherish and take care of them?
3) why did he mention he was in his underwear? How is this important?

Allison Cobb

4/28/2015 02:52:51 am

1. How did he keep everyone safe
2. Why didn't the United states help
3. Why didn't he leave
4. Why did he go into so much detail about the lives he saved
5. How did he keep everyone safe

Bailey Hatfield

4/28/2015 11:49:35 pm

An ordinary man questions chapter 9

Beyond Q
1) why would Paul be happy or filled with hope from the people in the hotel becoming rebels?
2) why would he not save the people and his family? He could have saved everyone in the hotel but he just puts his family in safety?

Obvious
1) why does he refer the military to "doped-up militias"
2) why would Paul believe that the negotiation rule came from the African love of bureaucracy and process ?
3) why was in not acceptable for a man to cry?

Lucy Jones

4/30/2015 02:29:06 am

Chapter 10 questions
1. Why was it "fashionable" to buy estates near Kabuga?
2. On page 169 when it says "it was difficult to tell the innocent from the guilty, but comfort was provided to everyone.", why was it nescessary. Comfort the guilty when they were aware of the severity of what they were doing?
3. Why does Paul feel naive about everything?

Beyond the lines
1. Why did the U.S. finally decide to help after so long? Was there any benefit to waiting?
2. Will Rwanda ever come back together after such a bloody conflict, or will words continue to divide them?

Allison Cobb

4/30/2015 03:18:10 am

Chapter 10 questions
1. Why does everyone have close connections to the soil?
2. Will Rwanda ever be able to come back together
3. Why did he have to travel alone
Beyond the lines
1. Why did the United states wait so long to help?

Allison Cobb

4/30/2015 03:25:49 am

Chapter 5
1. How did he keep everyone safe
2. What did paul notice about the captin
3.why couldn't he get safely to the hotel

1. Who really shot the plane down
2.coud the attack have been prevented

Raegan coyote

4/30/2015 03:26:31 am

6
Between
1)Why did the UN and USA not call this genocide a genocide and how did that affect history?
2) why did the people in the hotel start using the pool water?
3) who helped Paul? What officers
Beyond
1) if technology was more advanced would things have been different?
2) should we believe everything Paul says as truth?

Bailey H

4/30/2015 03:34:43 am

An ordinary man questions chapter 10

Beyond Q
1) why would they stop RTML this far into conflict?
2) why is he always ending paragraphs with "I am a hotel manager"?

Obvious
1) what does Paul mean by the people have close connections with the soil?
2) where were the parents of Tatiana and Izere
3) why would they eat purloned bananas?

Bailey Hatfield

4/30/2015 03:46:40 am

An ordinary man questions chapter 11

Beyond Q
1) Do you think there is any significance with him beginning the first chapter with description of his childhood creating imagery then doing the same in the last chapter with the church?
2) why do you think the church's name meant "place of milk"

Obvious
1) why would someone who has slaughtered animals be ready for a genocide? There's a huge difference in a human being who is not meant to be slaughtered and an animal who was created for that purpose.
2) how does joining a group to go kill others give you freedom?
3) how does the justice system of "stop-start/trickle" even mean or work?

Raegan coyote

4/30/2015 04:20:26 am

7-9
1)why didn't anyone help the people in the hotel?
2)why can't men cry in the Rwandan culture?
3)what happened in the mornings everyday for Paul?
4) how did Paul talk to the killers? What were his strategies?
5)why was Paul so descriptive with talking about the people he saved?
6)Paul has has so many chances to escape, why won't he?
7)how did the phones help Paul, if at all?
8) what happened with the churches and the priests?
9)why didn't the United States help in the genocide p?
Beyond
1)how would things have changed for Paul and his family if he would have left?
2) how did the United States not interfering affect our history and how did it make us look?
3) do you think it's okay that people always look to the United States to save the day?
4) do you think Paul actually cares for his family or do you think they aren't his number one priority?
5) what do you think Pauls motivations are during this whole thing?

Raegan coyle

4/30/2015 04:28:26 am

10
Between
1) what was meant by being close to the soil?
2) what affect did the genocide have on Rwanda?
3) how did Paul feel about everything he was doing pandora why?
Beyond
1) do things like this still happen today, unnoticed and why don't people help?
2) what is the root of all of this hate? Is there any way to change things like this? If so, is it worth the fight?

Lucy Jones

5/1/2015 01:20:53 am

Between the line
1. How did religion not play a bigger role in preventing the genocide?
2. Will the government be effective in preventing future genocides?
3. Why did RTML stop working?

Beyond the line
1. Will the church have a bigger role in preventing genocides than the government? And if so why?
2. Is having an ineffective government better than having none?

Brandon O'Daniel

5/1/2015 03:01:47 am

Brandon O'Daniel

5/1/2015 03:03:09 am

1)why didn't anyone help the people in the hotel?
2)why can't men cry in the Rwandan culture?
3)what happened in the mornings everyday for Paul?
4) how did Paul talk to the killers? What were his strategies?
5)why was Paul so descriptive with talking about the people he saved?
6)Paul has has so many chances to escape, why won't he?
7)how did the phones help Paul, if at all?
8) what happened with the churches and the priests?
9)why didn't the United States help in the genocide p?
Beyond
1)how would things have changed for Paul and his family if he would have left?
2) how did the United States not interfering affect our history and how did it make us look?
3) do you think it's okay that people always look to the United States to save the day?
4) do you think Paul actually cares for his family or do you think they aren't his number one priority?
5) what do you think Pauls motivations are during this whole thing?

depressing shamus

5/3/2015 03:09:09 am

ch7

between the lines
what was the affect of the phone of the fax machine.
why did he make the joke of sending a killer to pick up his friends.
why did the preacher keep his gun
beyond the lines
how would it have been different if they hadnt cut the phone line.
why did paul say that he did not trust anyone anymore.

shamus sadness

5/3/2015 03:25:33 am

ch8
between
why did the captain come to the hotel.
what did he do to keep his hotel safe,along with the other.
why did he press further when the man said he could keep his hotel open
beyond
why deos he stake the lives of everyone in the hotel on a guess.
why did he see the importance of daily mundane tasks when he thought he would die.

shamus shack

5/3/2015 03:28:47 am

9-11
between
why was the rpf leader famous
why did both the refugees and the murderers try to escape.
who created the camps
beyond
what was the affect of the u n helping so late.

would the war have continued if they didnt come in

Alex Mayes

5/4/2015 02:54:57 am

Between:
Where did Paul move to?
What is Paul's new job?
What happened when they went to see what happened to his wife's mother?
Beyond:
If you had to move away from home into a new country, what job would you pursue?
If you were Paul and your family members were killed, how would you react?

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