Sarajevo

nationalist during their official visit to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia. Prior to his visit to Sarajevo, the Archduke received multiple warnings to cancel the trip, however he still departed. This morning, as Ferdinand and his wife were on their way to a reception at the town hall of Sarajevo where the major of Sarajevo had been expecting them. Little did they know that seven young Bosnians had fanned along the Appel Quay, the main avenue of Sarajevo running parallel to the Milijacka River

SARAJEVO (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA) I landed in the capital of Bosnia early in the morning , while the city was still waking up. It was the first time I was in this part of Europe, and I was pretty excited to see what is waiting for me. I heard many stories about the Bosnian war, but I was positively surprised while I was driving with a cab around the city. Moreover, it looks quite modern, though truth be told, here and there you can see the scars of the war. The hotel where I stayed is the greatest

Summary The Cellist of Sarajevo paints a stark picture of war, writes Garcia-Alvarez (2012) and its effects on four distinct individuals. First, the Cellist is a compelling characters who plays his cello for 22 days as tribute to the 22 people, including his friends and neighbours, who were killed while in line for bread. Second, Arrow, a female sniper, finds her independence challenged as the siege continues. She is tasked with protecting the cellist, whilst battling with her own sense of morality

examples of this act of nature, but it is most beautifully depicted in Stephen Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo which proves adverse circumstances have the power to obstruct personal normality and inevitably inspire change of integrity. Throughout the novel we are reminded of the everyday disruptions that cause pain and misery in our lives. In a span of almost almost 4 years the Siege of Sarajevo in the early to mid 1990s was a conflict of unimaginable horrors with deaths ranging into the thousands

Gavrilo Princip, Sarajevo and World War I In present-day Sarajevo alongside the Miljacka River there used to be commemorative footprints in the concrete sidewalk. Spanning across the Miljacka River was the Princip Bridge, named after the man who took not only the life of an Archduke, but also the lives of many more during World War I. Bismarck had predicted that, “Some damned foolish thing in the Balkans” would cause the war. He was partially correct. The assassination of the Archduke

Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo. Galloway clearly explores identity through the three main characters of the novel; Alisa, Kenan, and Dragan, conveying a clear lesson about hope through the experiences of the three characters. Though the conflicts from the siege cause them all to deviate from their personalities before the siege, they eventually all revert to their original personalities, regaining their identities. In the novel during the Siege of Sarajevo, Alisa

Depicted in the movie Sarajevo, the story of Princip and Prince Archduke Franz Ferdinand epitomizes the butterfly effect in human history. Ever since I first heard the story, I have been trying to reconcile the monumental impact of this one man and this chance event on the world as it exists today According to the production. The movie “Sarajevo” was about the attack made on the Austro Hungarian’s presumptive Archduke and his wife while they were traveling through Sarajevo on the anniversary of

This idea is prominent in Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo, a novel which follows the story of three characters in the war-torn city of Sarajevo. Despite the fact that the characters never meet, they are each unified by a cellist and the song he plays for twenty-two days to honour the citizens who lost their lives while waiting in line for bread. Throughout the book, a recurring idea is that of hope for the future of Sarajevo, which is shown through the contrast of symbols from the beginning

“Knowing no one is coming, but not wanting to believe it”: How war affects the self concept of those living in the battlefield in The Cellist of Sarajevo Steven Galloway’s novel The Cellist of Sarajevo follows Sarajevo citizens who are struggling to survive in their home during the genocide which occurred there in the 1990’s. These people become psychologically affected through living on a battleground, and in a life altering way. The very image of war is enough for most to feel disappointed in

The UN report on the Battle and Siege of Sarajevo is a document that records the events within the city from April 5th 1992 to February 28th 1994. The document’s purpose is to shine a light and describe the consequence of the Battle of Sarajevo and its violations of human law. Sarajevo is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The city’s name is derived from ‘Seraglio’, meaning ‘palace in the fields’ in Turkish. Sarajevo’s history dates back to Roman times with the Slavs eventually conquering