The book was published in French in by Dupuis and has appeared in a number of different translations. The story takes place before, during, and after the genocide in Rwanda ; told through parallel storylines. It is divided between the present day and Deogratias' flashbacks, denoted by black borders for the former and blank borders for the latter. It follows Deogratias, a Hutu teenager who has been unstable ever since his two Tutsi friends died in the genocide.
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The book was published in French in by Dupuis and has appeared in a number of different translations. The story takes place before, during, and after the genocide in Rwanda ; told through parallel storylines. It is divided between the present day and Deogratias' flashbacks, denoted by black borders for the former and blank borders for the latter. It follows Deogratias, a Hutu teenager who has been unstable ever since his two Tutsi friends died in the genocide.
The story begins after the genocide. Deogratias is at a bar and meets an old friend, a French sergeant. Deogratias has flashbacks to his life before the genocide. He remembers the crush he had on the two girls and how he tried to spend time with them.
In the flashbacks, Deogratias wasn't always a good person. We meet other people in the story. The two tribes in the country didn't get along. Deogratias was a bit caught in the middle of the feud, having been forced to join the "Interahamwe".
His life after the genocide seems very bad. In day three of Deogratias returns to the town looking for urwagwa banana beer because he is turning into a dog again, but doesn't. Because he talks to Julius about killing the Tutsis, then he begins to think of how the father and brother Philip left and the others stayed and hid. Deogratias - The main character of the book. He is a Hutu boy in Rwanda during the genocide.
He struggles between good and evil actions throughout the novel. He also becomes mentally unstable as the book continues. He continuously turns into a dog to represent him changing into one of the people who are killing the Hutu and Tutsis. Venetia - A Tutsi women and mother of Benina and Apollinaria.
She works as a prostitute at a local hotel, soliciting in sexual manners. It is revealed that she and Father Stanislass where once lovers. Apollinaria - Venetia's oldest daughter who works at the church. Deogratias pines after her though she denies him. She is very angered by the thoughts of being called a cockroach and is protective of her sister when she finds out early in the book that she is in a relationship with Deogratias.
Benina - Apollinaria's half sister, she is also Tutsi. Benina is involved in a romantic relationship with Deogratias. Brother Philip - A young man who goes to Rwanda in order to try to bring religion and civility to the Rwandans. Who also at the end lets Deogratias confess to him and listen to all of Deogratias' stories.
Father Prior Stanislas - A white priest who runs the local church. Deogratias steals money from him, catching him in a lie.
He is known to have had an affair with Venitia, and also is Appollinaria's father. Augustine - a Twa man who works at the church and childhood friend of Venetia. He has an infant daughter named Marie. Julius - A leader in the Hutu militia called the " interahamwa ". He forcefully makes Deogratias join his group and participate in the killing. The main theme of the book is regret; the past constantly comes back to haunt Deogratias, be it of the genocide itself or his misdeeds. Other major themes include dehumanization, addiction, and post-traumatic stress disorder, which are all connected.
At several points in the story, Deogratias, scarred by everything that has happened, physically and figuratively transforms into a dog possibly literally at the end, as a policeman carries him off like a dog. He drinks banana beer to transform back into a human, claiming " I am not a dog.
Early on, Deogratias stops the Frenchman from swatting a cockroach; regarding the "cockroach" slur used by Hutu extremists to describe Tutsis, this shows that he regrets his actions during the conflict and wants to preserve what's left. Adding to the irony is that Benina and Apollinaria, both Tutsis, are girls he wanted to date, yet he aided in their deaths.
Deogratias received overwhelmingly positive reviews by a number of literary publications including Publishers Weekly who wrote: "The heartbreaking power of Deogratias is how it keeps the reader distant from the atrocities by showing the trivial cruelties of everyday life before and after the genocide. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This section possibly contains original research.
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To examine something as horrible as genocide on the macro level requires a massive volume to do it any justice. Saving that, it's only in the individual experiences on the ground that one can hope to begin to understand how such things are perpetrated. When we meet a young man named Deogratias months after the Rwandan genocide he is wide-eyed, filthy, and an alcoholic. What brought him to his sad state? His face, his mind, and his story are an abyss, but one we may yet learn from.
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Deogratias is the name of our main character who had lost his 'screw' in the head after an incident that was revealed towards the end of the graphic novel. He is a teenager and at the beginning of the book, we can see, like some of his peers, he is more concern about his curiosity of sex compare to anything else. I cant say more than that because the story is quite short. And I absolutely would not recommend this to those under 15 even tho you could definitely learn something from it. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving….
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Deogratias documents the story of a young man tragically affected by the Rwandan genocide, which resulted in the brutal murder of , people in a few short months. Deogratias is a young man of Hutu ethnicity. What exactly happened to him before and after the genocide is slowly revealed through an oscillating series of flashbacks and present-day revelations. By the end of the tale, we learn that Deogratias was once a typical, hormone-driven kid. He had a crush on a Tutsi girl named Apollinaria. When she rejects his advances, he pursues her sister, Benina. It is evident he cares very much about both of them.