ENG-1D1-08 May 28th‚ 2012 Self Sacrifice One’s humanity is not measured by what they have but what they are willing to do. If an individual shows that they will be overpowered by an opposing threat‚ they have already lost. In Steven Galloway’s novel The Cellist of Sarajevo‚ the attacking Serbians have surrounded Sarajevo and have taken away the safety of the civilians. In order to protect themselves and their fellow civilians‚ one must be willing to sacrifice their own safety to help others
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The Cellist of Sarajevo A. Predict Look at the photo above and the title of the unit. What do you think this unit will be about? Write down your thoughts. By representing the image of a man playing the cello‚ I wanna think that this unit talk about music‚ a topic that personally I like to talk. B. Share Information 1. What kind of music do you enjoy? Jazz? Rock ‘n’ roll? Classical? Hip-hop? I like listened hip- hop‚ reggaeton‚ rock in spanish and electro because i think have
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STUDY: THE CELLIST OF SARAJEVO 1. How did the war affect arrow‚ Dragan‚ and the cellist? How did their life change? • Arrow‚ before the war was nothing like what she became after the war. She uses to be happy with her life in Sarajevo‚ but because of the war‚ she has become a sniper. Arrow quickly began to forget who she was killing. She knew they were the opposition but she but she just began to just see them simply as target. The war also made her to forget to who she was. The cellist also got
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Self-sacrifice is an action that everyone must go through sometime throughout their life. Its an action that develops who an individual is. In Steven Galloway’s book‚ The cellist of sarajevo‚ individuals are faced with self-sacrifice numerous times. The novel takes place in sarajevo during the war and has split perspectives between Kenan‚ Dragan‚ the Cellist‚ and Arrow. These three characters are representing differents parts of life in Sarajevo. Kenan is trying to provide for the family even when
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text The Cellist of Sarajevo‚ a man named Kenan is a civilian trying to survive during a siege. A way he provides for his family is to travel across the city to the brewery to retrieve fresh water. In the process of doing so he lives through some traumatic events. In the novel‚ The Cellist of Sarajevo‚ Canadian author Steven Galloway develops the idea that when an individual with a family is forced to come face to face with compelling circumstances then their capacity for self-sacrifice increases
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In The Cellist of Sarajevo‚ Galloway suggests the concept of death in moral through his presentation of an intriguing character called Arrow‚ who is proposed with an internal conflict about whether killing people‚ in order to defend the city‚ is morally equitable or not. In the story’s exposition‚ Galloway reveals that ‘Arrow’ is a code name since “the first time she picked up a rifle to kill” (Galloway 6). As soon as the reader is informed Arrow’s identity as a sniper‚ Galloway sets up a cold and
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writing can have an incredible effect on the way that a novel is perceived. In the novel The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway‚ the lack of colour sets the tone appropriate for a book about a city under siege‚ this is punctuated by spots of colour‚ which give light to the depressing mood. In the book‚ Sarajevo is a city that has largely been destroyed. Each of the characters in the book is given hope by a cellist who sits on the street each day and plays for the 22 people who died in a bombing outside
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The Cellist of Sarajevo Shirley Shi My prediction for the novel‚ The Cellist of Sarajevo‚ is that the novel is going to be out the siege in Sarajevo. It’s also going to be out a survival story for different kinds of characters in the novel. For example‚ on the inside flap of the novel‚ it said that a character in the story name Arrow‚ who is a counter sniper in the novel tries to protect the cellist from danger. The cellist had to stay in front of a bakery store‚ where a bomb killed twenty two
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What happens to people when the seemingly simplest parts of life become a question of survival? In Steven Galloway’s “The Cellist of Sarajevo” people are forced to make decisions that will decipher whether or not they will remain alive and whether or not they will remain altruistic. Often‚ when people are forced into conditions like the ones outlined in Galloway’s novel‚ they may have to choose to focus on simply enduring to the end‚ even if doing what it takes to survive outweighs remaining genuine
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terrifying situations‚ and the choice to act courageously is consistent with their personal moral code. The impact that one’s personal characteristics and integrity has on their actions during times of conflict can be seen throughout the novel The Cellist of Sarajevo. Particularly in Dragan‚ a baker who has become isolated during the war. He is forced out of his comfort zone because the war‚ but who he is as a person is what allows him to be courageous. Although he does not feel the need to fight back on
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