Dragan's 'Memory Vs. Reality In Sarajevo'

Bosnian Genocide was a terrible act of murder which started when Muslims and Croats voted for independence in referendum that was boycotted by Serbs In 1992.When the European Union recognized Bosnian’s independence the war broke out and Serb’s occupied the country.

Short Stories involve elements of fiction, such as plot, characters, setting, a point of view, symbolism, and theme. Through reading and analyzing these stories that we have read, we understand themes of love, death, feminism, masculinity and much more. In this short story, "Ind Aff, or Out of Love in Sarajevo", Fey Weldon uses the setting of her story to teach a young woman a lesson in morality, and about life and love. The short story is being narrated in first person point of view, which gives the readers a sense of privacy through the character's inner struggle. The main character is a young woman who is the protagonist of this short story, in which throughout the story her character has a dynamic change between other characters. The story takes place in Sarajevo, which is in a small town of Bosnia after World War I. The setting and historical references of the story, which took place in this small town in Bosnia is about the assassin named Princip who took the life of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, in Sarajevo. According to this event, it is said to have triggered Europe into World War I. While visiting the town of Sarajevo the young woman urges Princip's decision to murder the Archduke and his wife, which the plan and thoughts move her into a different direction. In this short story, it states about extreme relationships that sometimes maybe abusive in some way from one of the partners towards the other. In this essay, I will recall and analyze the elements of fiction through this short story based on the theme of realization of second chances.

One of the youngest nations of Europe, Yugoslavia was created after World War I as a homeland for several different rival ethnic groups. The country was put together mostly from remnants of the collapsed Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary. Demands for self-determination by Slovenes, Croats, Serbs, and others were ignored. Yugoslavia thus became an uneasy association of peoples conditioned by centuries of ethnic and religious hatreds. World War II aggravated these rivalries, but Communist dictatorship after the war controlled them for 45 years. When the Communist system failed, the old rivalries reasserted themselves; and in the early 1990s the nation was rent by secessionist movements and civil war. Within several years these conflicts

The short story, “IND AFF or Out of Love in Sarajevo,” by Fay Weldon, depicts a young woman vacationing in Sarajevo, the scene of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination by Princip Bridge. The narrator is in the midst of an affair with her married professor, Peter, and over the duration of the trip, she realizes the fragility of her relationship with him. Her realization is played out in conjunction with the historic relevance of Princip’s assassination due to the setting being in Sarajevo. As the narrator notices the parallels between her and Princip’s lives, she ultimately decides to end things with Peter in a moment of self-reflection. Upon this discovery, thematic parallels of love, consequences, and second chances are used to

The Bosnian-Herzegovina genocide or “ethnic cleansing” went on from April 1992 to December 1995 around the end of the Second World War. When Bosnia became its own independent nation on April 5th 1922 it wanted to “cleanse” its country of any non Serbian residents. The killing of Bosnian Muslims during this time was stated by international tribunals to be an ethnic cleansing however the events that took place in July 1995 in Srebrenica was so horrific it was deemed a genocide. The United Nations should have intervened a lot sooner than they did and should have sent more than just peace keepers to protect the human beings that were being slaughtered.

The phrase became traditional in the follow-up of Serbian assaults on ethnic Bosnians during the Bosnian War. The crusade of the Bosnian War in 1992 lead the bigotry to a global dispute, as the Croats enforced ethnic cleansing protocols against the Muslim Bosnians. A number of genocides in 1994 and 1995 supported the continued entanglement of NATO air strikes in both applying a no fly zone and establishing the Serbian air force. United Nations arbitrators on the ground missed the opportunity to fix up the situation earlier. A heavy occupation force enforcing the end of the conflict brought 60,000 troops to the area. These crisis represents a criterion within the discussion about military force to avert a massive ethnic cleansing.

America has always been a golden country for people from all around the world. Immigrants came to America with high expectations. People heard many stories of all the land, job opportunities in America, so they decide to come. At the same time, when arriving, it was not what they had expected. Although industry aid immigrants with work and new technology, but most immigrants found that living in American was very difficult. They struggle with long hours work and low wages. They also dealt with harsh working conditions and communication problem. Also, America gave immigrant a false sense of hope. In Louis Adamic’s article, “A Slovenian Boy Remembers Tales of the Golden Country” best indicate the people’s inner voice living in America. Through this document, Louis Adamic has described the immigrant experience living in America in the early twentieth century who desperate of coming to America without researching the actual obstacles that people were facing in America. Some hardships people are facing are economic, social equality and independence that will transform people into a different living style.

However, Kenan’s interpretation of the world is truly altered when he witnesses the corruption and violence of the war. He is one of the collective few Sarajevo citizens who were naive to such chaos and bloodshed. Kenan, when he witnesses the corruption in the city, is shocked and disturbed that the wealthy leech on the backs of the poor, “At first he just stands there, shocked./And now he is angry. All he sees is the man/and all he wants to do is put his hands around his throat (206).” Kenan, who was once naive to such explicit violence, has gained a new perspective and this perspective has changed his view of the world. Also, similarly to Dragan, Kenan begins to understand the significance of his life. His new perspective developed from the war, has helped Kenan understand the importance of living and that he will not allow himself to be subjected to such terror. “Kenan will not be a ghost. Enough has been done to the city in the name of ghosts (215),” Kenan realizes that that there is so much more to life and that he will not lose himself to violence nor corruption. This change in perspective changes Kenan’s interpretation of life and the

Everyone in Sarajevo shares a common goal: to survive until the end of the day. This rigorous and dangerous mission is repeated every single day. The men on the hill force the citizens of Sarajevo to always be cautious. The threat of a sniper aiming when one crosses a road and the fear of being one of the victims in the many mortar bombings are always lingering in the citizens’ minds. This fear of death and will to survive creates a tense mood throughout the story. The reader is often able to imagine the scene and the tense moments as Arrow, Kenan, Dragan and the citizens of Sarajevo fight to survive. One wrong move, even one as frivolous as walking across the street, may signify the death of

ways that collective memories develop, eventually concluding that the Holocaust was not a collective memory. In his argument, he gives three different definitions of a collective memory. He then explains how Americans do not meet these definitions based on geographical location, and not experiencing it first-hand. The author is trying to get across that even though the Holocaust is discussed a lot in various contexts, it is not defined as a collective memory for Americans. The Holocaust was as Novick suggests “cost-free” for Americans, meaning they did not lose anything. Germans were directly affected by this historical

They occur and we neglect to notice the unearned inequity. Even though genocide is difficult encounter as actuality it is. The Bosnian genocide was a heartbreaking event that caused misery and loss of lives to 100,000 with 80,000 being of the Bosnian culture (Bosnia-Herzegovina). March 1, 1992-December 14, 1995 35 dreadful months for the Bosnians. If you think of all the terrifying things done to them they would sometimes rather be dead than alive. Could imagine being in so much agony you would wish you were dead. The perpetrators, the Serbians were making an effort to exterminate the Bosnians. They were stopped by the Bosnians who fought for their lives. This would be recognized as genocide because it shares several characteristics with

A genocide is a intended killing upon a large group of people, especially upon a certain ethnic group. The genocide in Bosnia, also known as The Bosnian War started in 1992 after Bosnian government declared independence from Yugoslavia. Bosnian Serbs did not like the idea of a free nation with majority of the citizens being Muslim. Serbs killed approximately 100,000 croats and muslims. The Genocide in Bosnia-Herzegovina is similar to the Holocaust because both involved the murders of certain cultures. This was the largest massacre in Europe since the Holocaust (Bosnia-Herzegovina).

The Bosnian War was an international arms conflict that involved 2 main sides, the Republika Srpska, and Herzeg-Bosnia. The Republika Srpska would show very little sympathy towards the Non-Serb population of cities they would occupy. 1995 of the Bosnian War reached its most violent climax, Bosnian Serb Forces in occupied Srebrenica began an ethnic cleansing of the Non-Serb population, and massacred more than 8000 people. Many generals and other people of high class within the Republika Srpska were tried for their actions, but none confessed and denied everything, this is what makes the following person so significant. Dragan Obrenovic, who was the only person who admit guilt for the Genocide and it taking place. The accused, Dragan

In 1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina had one the biggest genocide to come after WWII, in turn killing over 800,000 civilians. The war consisted of two factions, the Croats and Serbs, both wanting territory in Bosnia. Soon Radovan Karadžić, former Bosnian Serb president, created a special army to support the Serbs, soon the Serbs started the new policy for “ethnic cleansing” many areas of non-Serb. For it was later that it was to be decided that is was complete and utter genocide towards the innocent.

Yugoslavia was a very successful country under the lead of Josip Broz Tito. Yugoslavia was made of 6 Republics and those were: Croatia, Montenegro ,Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Slovenia, Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo together with Vojvodina which at that time were recognized as provinces. After the death of Tito Yugoslavia began to demolish. The collapse of Yugoslavia began in 1980, and it continued until the 27th of April 1992, which in history is known as the date when Yugoslavia totally collapsed. In my opinion, the reason that the disintegration of Yugoslavia happened was because of the decline in absolute sovereignty. In this paper, I am going to talk about the definition of sovereignty, different perspectives about the disintegration of Yugoslavia from some authors and the decline in absolute sovereignty which led to the disintegration of Yugoslavia.