forces them to. An extraordinary event, such as a war, can alter people in sudden, permanent, and often negative ways. In The Cellist of Sarajevo, written by Steven Galloway, the three main characters, Dragan, Arrow, and Kenan, were living happy, ordinary lives doing ordinary, pleasant things such as taking the tram and buying ice cream. During the siege of Sarajevo, they were obligated to kill, risk their lives, and live in fear. War forces people to ignore what they want and do what they need. Each
In the history of humans, the idea that they could possibly be inherently evil is fairly new. Until the 19th or 20th century, religious groups especially enforced the ideology that people are inherently good. However, I believe that humans have a tendency to do evil. I believe this because they constantly partake in needless murder and are insatiable in their hunger for power and control. William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies shows that humans are evil through the murder of the most innocent
Sarajevo Bear by Walter Pavlich What idea(s) does this poem suggest to you about overcoming challenges involving with hopelessness and ambitions? As one goes through life, one faces hopelessness and ambitions, the poem I read was Sarajevo Bear it is based on how ambitions and hopelessness can lead to unconditional sacrifices. What is hopelessness? What is ambition? Hopelessness can implicate various aspects such as being desperate as well as impossible to accomplish, not able to work as desired
The Cellist of Sarajevo “There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage… between compromise – even calculated risks – and irresponsibility and capitulation” (Ehud Barak). Sarajevo was a city under siege by the Chetniks. People who resided in Sarajevo during that time became prisoners in their town. They had to compromise something to live. Whether it was their humanity for safety or their safety for integrity. By giving up something, their moral compass was breached and
attract thousands upon thousands of tourists and are a large part of American popular culture; some people might even call these things “fun”. But there were no tourists to the ruins of Sarajevo, and it was certainly not fun being there. Ten thousand people--about the entire population of Hartland--were killed in Sarajevo with thousands more made refugees for nothing more than the senseless, racially-motivated vice of others (Brown & Mpini, 2012). This major city in Eastern Europe
JP Burgess Mrs. Szablewski US History II/H 11/10/14 The Bosnian War The Bosnian War took place from 6 April 1992 – 14 December 1995 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was the largest conflict since WWII with over 100,000 people killed over the three years of war. The war was primarily territorial and began when the the army of the Republika Srpska tried to take control of the new country which had just been formed after the disintegration of Yugoslavia. Three groups fought for control of the region
In the novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo, the author Steven Galloway explores the power of music and its ability to provide people with an escape from reality during the Siege of Sarajevo. A man, who was once the principal cellist in the Sarajevo Symphony Orchestra, plays Albinoni’s Adagio with his cello in the streets of Sarajevo for twenty-two consecutive days at 4:00 pm as war wages around him. The cellist does this to commemorate the deaths of twenty-two citizens who were killed by the mortar
In the novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo, the author Steven Galloway explores the power of music and its ability to provide people with an escape from reality during the Siege of Sarajevo. A cellist plays Albinoni’s Adagio for twenty-two consecutive days to commemorate the deaths of twenty-two citizens who were killed by the mortar attacks on the Sarajevo Opera Hall while waiting to buy bread. Albinoni’s Adagio represents that something can be almost obliterated from existence, but be recreated into
ride through the countryside was quite amazing. If you did not know, you would swear you were driving down a back road in Pennsylvania. The only visible difference were signs written in Cyrillic for little shops along the road. As the contours of Sarajevo came into focus, you could not miss the gaping, rubble-filled holes that were once buildings. I was not ready for the scenes of destruction that I was about to witness. I have hiked the hollow fields of Gettysburgh, read stories of the war in Vietnam
English essay “The Sorrow of Sarajevo” by Goran Simic, and “Dulce et Decorum” by Wilfred Owen both examine the theme of war. The poem “Sorrow of Sarajevo” is an account of the poets experience in Sarajevo during the siege, in 1990 Bosnia. The poem seems to depict a man in the middle of a warzone, surrounded by dead bodies, and wreckage, the narrator seems to appear to be all alone and is filled with sorrow as he witnesses atrocities. The poem describes horror, death, civilian casualties and lasting
an American writer and filmmaker, exported hundreds of copies of the promotion poster which were printed in New York City into surrounded Sarajevo. (Redzic, 2014) Even though she was misusing the United Nations airlift, the usage of globalization saved the film festival’s fate.Without the supply of international film director’s movie contribution to the Sarajevo Film Festival and publicity that came from New York, the festival would not be able to accommodate 20,000 people from all over the country
equipment, they surrounded Sarajevo. There troops hid in the hills and shot civilians as they were trying to get food and water. There were lots of executions, concentration camps, rape, and sexual violence. The “siege of Sarajevo” is known as one of the most important factors of Yugoslavia’s breakup, which involved thousands of people being killed over the years. The European Union
In Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo, the environment of war is associated with trauma and torment while its counterpart the environment of normal life is thought of as joyous and harmonious. However different these two realities are, they can both be united by one aspect – humanity. The three main characters, Arrow, Kenan and Dragan, all “stumble into the core of what it is to be human” (12) by performing routine tasks in extraordinary conditions. Arrow comes to the realization that to be
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
Karadžić felt that Sarajevo, being the largest city and capital of Bosnia, was the “neck of a snake,” with the head of the snake being the country itself.9 Karadžić believed this meant that, in order to get the head of a snake or the country as a whole, one must grab it by the neck, its strongest part, to gain as much control of the snake(country) as possible. This was also key for the planned ethnic cleansing due to how ethnically diverse the Sarajevo was, similar to the city of Srebrenica
lack of help Bosnians received during this war torn time. The U.N. did not want to intervene till, in my opinion, it was too late. This is touched upon in each of the materials covered. 1993, the United Nations (UN) Security Council declared that Sarajevo, Gorazde, Srebrenica and other Muslim enclaves were to be safe areas, protected by a contingent of UN peacekeepers, which we read about in “Safe Area Gorazde” which we know that was a joke in its self
The formation of the United Nations in 1945 marked a monumental success in the international political realm. It was founded to foster relations with its member and non-member states, encourage the respect of human rights, and fight to solve social, economic, and humanitarian issues. However, of all of these motives, its foundation was based primarily on creating peace and preventing conflict between members. The idea of collective security in the UN has become the heart of peace keeping within the
want a war to end up in one. Generation after generation learns the hard horrors of war. A warring civilization is like a destroyed building it can be rebuilt but what made up that building can never be replaced. In Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo and Pat Barker’s The Ghost Road war causes irreparable damage. The effects of damage range from the loss of one’s identity including sanity and loss of humanity that leaves civilization merely a ghost of what it
genocide even happened even though there is scientific proof that this genocide happened. The purpose of learning genocide is so we are informed and we won't let it happen again. Bosnia is a country in Europe and its capital is a city called Sarajevo. Bosnia is bordered by Serbia and Croatia. In this genocide, between 1992 and 1995, the Serbians wanted to pursue genocide against the Muslims of Bosnia. After World War 1, a country called Yugoslavia was created in 1918. It was created out of the
The genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina marked the first genocide in Europe since the Holocaust during the Second World War. Bosnia-Herzegovina was originally from the former Yugoslav republic. It became an independent state in 1992. After the death of communist ruler Josip Broz Tito the country fell under oppression. Religion played a significant part in the animosity of religious hatred between religions. Bosnian citizens were identified as either Orthodox Serb, Catholic Croatians, or Bosnian Muslims