Subway coincidences

I was sitting on the train last week reading a paper about the Rwandan genocide and the movie Hotel Rwanda. It was a critical analysis of the movie's portrayal of the genocide. These are real life events and real people and the point of the paper was to discuss how well the movie depicted those events. They paid particular attention to the stereotypes often relied upon to explain conflict in Africa. It is a very interesting paper, especially for someone like me who had not seen the movie and admittedly knew little about the specific event.

The woman next to me was reading a book. I wasn't really paying attention to her because this paper was really well written, a breath of fresh air after spending most days grading undergraduate essays. At some point, however, I looked over and glanced at the book she was reading. The left page header said "Rusesabagina". I blinked, looked back at the paper in my hand. There was that name. I asked her if I could see the book cover. She showed me and explained that it was written by the guy from the movie Hotel Rwanda. I told her that I was reading a paper on the movie. We both chuckled at the coincidence. Shortly, we arrived at my stop. I got off and I suspect she got back to her reading.

Another little connection made on the T in Boston.