The Cellist Of Sarajevo Character Analysis

We all view ourselves a certain way, sometimes we don’t always like how we see ourselves and work to change it. In the novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway, a dog is featured twice walking across a road, which makes one of the characters question the worth of his life versus that of a dog. We perceive others based on how we perceive ourselves but that won’t work because everyone is different with different values and have things that make them just as important as everyone else.

Our perception of who we are and our value doesn’t always match what others see in us. Which can lead to us accepting something less than we deserve. In The Cellist, a dog is seen walking across a street by the character Dragan. He sees the dog has a purpose, “This dog has somewhere to to.”, something it’s looking for. He relates it to all of them, the people in the city. They all have a purpose, a goal, they want to survive and live. We all have a purpose and goal in life and we

The dog walks across ‘Sniper Alley’ and as Dragan watches it he contemplates whether the men on the hill will shoot it, “If the men on the hill will not shoot the dog, but they shoot at us, they must consider us different.”, Dragan doesn't know if he wants to be on the same level as the dog, having the men shoot it or if he would rather them leave it. He doesn’t know what it would mean if they did shoot. Would it be the dogs not worth the bullet or the dogs life is more important than that of a humans. Dragan doesn’t know, “Whether we are better or worse” whether the dogs life is rated higher to the men than the civilians are or if the dog is smaller and more insignificant then they are. We spend time judging and comparing ourselves to others, but we can’t put a value on whose life we deem more important than others. We all have worth in different areas that can’t be judged the same