The Cellist of Sarajevo

The Cellist of Sarajevo

  • Submitted By: mambwe
  • Date Submitted: 09/17/2010 9:52 AM
  • Category: English
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How did the constant confrontation of war and occupation affect Kenan, Arrow, and Dragan.
Dragan changed very much during the war he totally cut himself off from people. He stopped talking to his friends, his afraid of dying. The only way of him holding onto things he loved and never wanted to lose was the memory of his wife and son, whenever he viewed the city he would see himself and the family walking around the city having fun but he can't have fun because of what is going on in the city .He looks around and it's hard to see what once was, or maybe was, it seems like there has never been anything but the men on the hills with guns. Dragan was one person who would want to help but he couldn't cause he was afraid, he looked at his fellow citizens as he was with nothing every hard lost they jobs. He was a whiner.
Kenan is also scared of dying and for him it's even worse cause he doesn't want one of his children to see him die he wishers things could be better than they are. He still talks to his friends. He watches his city and all he could do was to wish if everything was well in the city and he will walk down into the city, he will hold his younger daughter's hand, she would say daddy can we get ice cream he will smile and say yes and the other daughter sanja will squeeze his hand. His oldest will go for a movie with her boyfriend he will have fun with his family but all he wishers can't happen in time of war the city is destroyed and he no longer loves the way it looks. they was no way kenan would help the other citizen even if he wanted because he was afraid, he tried to comfort the woman who lost to her daughter.
Arrow was the one who totally changed, she changed her name and became a sniper, she believes she's different from the snipers on the hills she only shoot soldiers and the men on the hills shoot everyone, everything she saw in the city had changed the city she knew from in and out was not the same as it used to be. The men on the hills hated...

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