The Cellist Of Sarajevo Character Analysis

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The Cellist of Sarajevo, which is written about the Siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, the Cellist, who represents hope for the people of Sarajevo. He plays the Albinoni's Adagio at four P.M. every day for twenty-two days, for the twenty-two people are killed during a bombing at a bakery. The author, Steven Galloway, expresses the main points of view through; Arrow, Kenan, and Dragan. He writes about how they use the idea of hope to get them through the war. Arrow is cold hearted sniper who changes her life when the war begins, she realizes that she wants to have her old identity back, but she has gone too far and changes too much. Kenan is a family man who puts his life in danger every day to go and get water for his family and others. Dragan is a lonely man in Sarajevo as a result of sending his wife and child to Italy so that they could be safe, with hopes that they would return to Sarajevo when the war is all over. Despite the fact that they are in the middle of a war; hope is presented …show more content…

He shuts everyone out and desensitizes himself in order for him not to break down mentally because he is losing people he knows very well during the war. “Do you face the terror that must come with knowing you’re about to die, just for the sake of one last glimpse of life? Dragan is surprised to find his answer is yes” (Galloway 179). Dragan suspects that he will die along with the people that have already been taken by the men on the hills. “Just for the sake of one last glimpse of life?” this means that although he knows he will probably die while attempting to stay in Sarajevo, he has hope that everything will go back to the way it was before the war. He knows he is risking his life for something impractical by staying in Sarajevo where he is in danger of being killed; but he still wants to believe and hope that the war will pass and his family will come back to

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