No Friends to Turn To Summary and Analysis

Immaculee used the depth of her renewed faith and devoted herself anew to God. Even as atrocities occurred around her, she meditated and lost herself, and sometimes lost whole days, in prayer. Her peace was broken by one of Pastor Murinzi's visits. On this day he brought them table scraps and harsh words. He accused Immaculee's father of being a bad Tutsi. Immaculee didn't understand and the Pastor explained further. He had heard that her father had been planning a civil war in cooperation with the RPF. He told her that soldiers had found guns, grenades and a Hutu death list in her home. Immaculee believed fiercely in her family's goodness and knew these accusations couldn't be true. Immaculee knew instinctively that if people were spreading such awful stories about her father it...