What Canada Means To Me

As the old saying goes, “History has a way of repeating itself.” This is demonstrated in many of the world’s events. With deeper insight into past conflicts, there is usually a repeating theme present. In the Cellist of Sarajevo the reader is introduced to four major characters and is taken through the minds of these characters to see the ever lasting effects that war has on peoples mental and physical states. We will also be comparing this novel to the essay righting of What Canada Means to me written by Elijah Harper. This essay takes its reader through the eyes of a Native American who was forcibly taken away from his family and forced to go to Canadian schools and leave behind his culture behind. The reader can easily identify the elements

In The Cellist of Sarajevo there is no communication with the outside world. In the novel the reader comes into contact with a man and a camera who films killed or injured civilians to try and show the rest of the world how the war affects the civilians. Dragan knows that the camera will be filming soon, and knows that he doesn’t want the body of the hatless man to be captured on film (Galloway, 232). This is the only form of communication with the outside world and not being able to talk to or see other people can make anyone feel abandoned In the written piece What Canada Means to Me an example of feeling detached from the rest of the world is: We seem to suffer from a lost identity, ungrounded in anything concrete, detached from both outer and back-home society; this shows that once Native American children were taken away from their home and stripped of their beliefs they felt unwanted by both sides of society. To return home was never the same and they were treated differently while out in Canadian society being of a different culture they were out casted, which left a constant feeling of un-belonging and detachment from