I, Rigoberta Menchu 15-End

I had to read chapters fifteen to the end of the book of I, Rigoberta Menchu. Reading these last few chapters was hard enough now having to write about it seems harder.
The book was so personal. We were let into her life and what she went through growing up and just for the supposed thing we take for granted freedom. The freedom to live on their land. They were cheated and tricked into signing documents that they had no idea about what they were for.

I say it was hard to read about because of all the death. The last few chapters hit with hard details about death. First death expressed in the view as defending ones freedom and for a just cause. Her father had always talked about dying for what was right and fair. To give one's life just in order to see future generations not live the way they have to live right then and there. The age old saying, it is better to die free, than to die a slave is what comes to my mind when reading about what Rigoberta’s father felt. The Indian people used every means of survival. They made or converted everyday items into weapons so they were able to fight and defend themselves. The details of each death were pretty chilling. It was very vivid and graphic. To have written or described it any less though would have been something of a insult to these people's death and the cause they fought so hard against. Reading though about people being hacked to death and then just tortured as cruelly as they were before being set on fire and left to burn, there’s just a feeling of how could anyone ever do that. Like Rigoberta even talked about how dogs where no exactly sacred but they were a living being and to kill them was horrendous enough. To kill people, that is inhuman.

Families were broken up not only by death but just in working hard for freedom. Family members were often separated from one another to either make sure not all of them were caught at the same time or just that each family member had a certain job to do. Even the youngest was put to work. Actually no, not was. She wanted to work and wanted to help fight for her people. That shows brave and courage beyond her years. The book shows really how this woman has not broken down though so much in her life has seemingly gone wrong. The courage and bravery of her life and her struggles makes freedom seem so much more important than what people today have forgotten about.