The Symbolism Of Hope In The Cellist Of Sarajevo By Steven Galloway

When it comes to wartimes at colleges, reflections from alumni often help one understand how real the changes that took place at universities actually were for those involved. In their book, “Hope at the crossroads: The War Years”, Nordstrom and Zuidema go into the depth of personal experiences to understand what it was like to live, work, worship, and study at Hope College during and immediately after World War II (WWII). When it came to life on campus, many things changed. Sororities became places for the girls to knit and sew for the Red Cross, programs were made to allow students to graduate a year quicker, and intercollegiate sports, including The Pull, were ended during these times in the 1942-1943 school year. Working on campus, at least

Nothing is this world is perfect. Our government that has survived over two hundred years and multiple wars but, it is far from perfect. It is full of flaws. Barack Obama makes these flaws apparent in his book, The Audacity of Hope.

Both stories represent different interpretations of blindness/reality vs. expectations concepts of the relationships between real life and ideas in similar ways. In both “Cathedral” and “Araby” the authors tell stories about how people make their own judgments in their own mind that different from reality. In the story "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver, the narrator is not blind but he never looked at his wife’s need as being her childhood sweetheart. “Over the years, she put all kinds of stuff on tapes and sent the tapes to the blind man including about her divorce” (Carver 138). This shows the husband’s being blind, not knowing his wife very well.

“Anthropology has always called for a participatory experience, but in this ethnography, we are asked to become part of the action, sharing the risks as well as the rewards of success.” The novel, “The Uprising of Hope” written by Duncan Earle and Jeanne Simonelli, expresses the Zapatista journey to alternative development. Before we express the Zapatista journey to alternative development, we must know who and what the Zapatista’s stand for. First, all Zapatista’s have some sense of disjuncture from the past, a profound distrust of the government based on repeated betrayals, a hope and faith that life can change with sacrifice to the larger social cause, and a profound love of the campesino small holder lifestyle.

In the novel “The Cellist Of Sarajevo”, Steven Galloway illustrates the life of three very similar characters that are facing the same situation—war. Dragon one of the characters changes within the novel in a very positive way. Throughout the story he waits at the intersection to determine when it's safe to cross. Dragons morals of continuing to communicate, help others, and face the man on the hills was a conflict for him at first. But in the end, he gained the courage to do all that and and this developed his true identity.

An individual’s response to the drastic changes in their life reveals a lot about their character. In Steven Galloway’s novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo, the author follows the lives of three distinct characters affected by the siege on their beloved city. In the face of such compelling and often violent circumstances, the character Arrow learns to adapt her behaviour and attitude to fit her stark surroundings. While working as a sniper, Arrow faces a moral conflict as she tries to resolve her motivations for fighting back. Much like Sarajevo itself, Arrow experience the deterioration of her principles and morals.

Similarly, In Night by Elie Wiesel, Juliek plays the guitar to make the "end" as pleasant as he can because he himself knows that he will not make it out. Juliek purposely plays a German symphony, which the Jews are forbidden to play, to give the prisoners a sense of hope. In Night Wiesel states, "He was playing with his life, His whole being was gliding over the strings'' (Wiesel 94) Juliek knew what he was doing, and he knew what was going to happen to him but he still played the violin to demonstrate to the prisoners to remember that they are not just some prisoners but also a human who deserves to live.

The novel The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway is a fictional story based on true events from the war in Sarajevo. Galloway tells the story through the eyes of three different characters named Arrow, Kenan, and Dragon. Galloway depicts through his characters how surroundings altogether influence their lives, morals, values, and state of mind. He especially shows this theme through Arrow, a young woman in which the war has affected her deeply. The surroundings from war overall changes and shapes Arrow’s moral traits and her relationship with others, such as taking away her innocence, kindness and making her emotionless, showing no remorse for those who die.

The Cellist of Sarajevo, Steven Galloway In Steven Galloway’s The Cellist of Sarajevo, the chapters alternate between the different perspectives of three main characters. One of which is Arrow, a female sniper with immense ability who is sent to protect the cellist from other enemy snipers. Mindful of her value, she limits her involvement in the war – she will not, for example, target civilians. A code of ethics is her sole luxury.

This genre is concerned with self-fulfillment and socialization. The protagonist is actually or metaphorically orphaned. Of bildungsroman’s important elements is the theme of identity as it focuses on the psychological and moral development of the protagonist. It shows the conflict of generation, alienation, ordeal by love and a working philosophy (Söder), and the question of finding a place in society(Iversen 69) . The genre was acclaimed in Europe to the extent that many writers produced bildungsroman novels such as Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations and Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (which show the development of both protagonists).

All throughout history, humanity has searched for hope in troubling times, hoping for the best for them and the ones they love. This hope would provide people with a sense of resilience so that they could not remain hopeless and conquer any challenge in front of them, even if it has sacrifice involved. During the Holocaust era (1933-1945) the Jewish population were desperately in need of something to give them hope, as they were brutally oppressed by the Nazi party and Hitler. There were very brave individuals who stood up and fought against the Nazis.

I sat in front of my laptop screen for hours on end trying to create a coherent essay, to put into words how much stories like Harry Potter or Percy Jackson influenced my life, but nothing came out right. After many tears and sleepless nights I decided to take my mind off the essay and focus on other things like my four AP classes, being a leader in marching band, and even getting back into reading for pleasure. One book I finally got around to reading during this time was The Art of Wishing by Lindsay Ribar, a stereotypical young adult novel about a genie that completely changed the course of my senior year. It was not just a good read, but inspiring, maybe even life changing, and it made me realize that I needed to stop wishing for everything

Rage and sadness occupy his mind, he decides to make his creator pay for abandoning him by ruining his life and killing people who are close to

The 2002 film entitled “The Pianist” tells the story of Szpilman, a Polish Jewish pianist, and his experience in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. At the start of the movie, Szpilman is healthy, caring, and a faithful Jewish man, but as the war worsens, a change is seen within him. In order to survive the brutal destruction this ghetto faced during the Holocaust, Szpilman found himself constantly trapped within the walls of empty flats, abandoned attics, and wrecked houses. Although Szpilman was fortunate enough to survive this inhumane uprising, he still suffered from physical, mental, and spiritual damage.

Margarita Engle is a very inspiring writer and poet. She is Cuban and loves her home. She grew up in Los Angeles and spent summers in Cuba with her family. Ever since she was a little kid, she would go on walks and write poems. Before Engle became a full time poet/writer she wanted to be a botanist.