An Ordinary Man Paul Rusesabagina Analysis

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In the memoir “An ordinary man”, the author Paul Rusesabagina was heroic by having the advantage to a building and saving 1200 people in the hotel where he worked. For instance, in line 64 he states “Take four hours away from a hundred days, and you have an idea of just how little I was able to accomplish against the grand design.” Rusesabagina was humble to say four hours was barely anything, but it is a lot. With those four hours someone could have find a way to stop the genocide, or could pack their bags and leave Rwanda. Even though out of a hundred days four hours seems nothing, but if he doesn’t do anything those four hours worth of people he saved would be dead. To illustrate, Paul says, “I had a five story building. I had a small