Sarajevo

To know the effects of WWI I’ll need to inform you about a few of the many causes that caused the Great War. On the twenty-eighth of June 1914 an Archduke by the name of Franz Ferdinand (Austrian) was assassinated by a Bosnian Serb Gavrilo Princip and the two country’s from which they hail where already not in a good relationships so the assassination was just icing on the cake. Austria and Serbia both had powerful allies who were not ready for war and the allies had allies so it was as if…

Abhinav Ramavath Mr. Hess Honor World History 12 October 2017 What was the Underlying Cause of World War I The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the successor to the throne of Austria-Hungary, on 28 June 1914 is seen as the instantaneous spark of First World War. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was successor to the throne of Austria and Hungary. There was a tangle of agreements made between countries, to preserve and maintain a balance of power in Europe, which…

What caused World War I? What were the major combatants and why were they fighting? June 19, 1914, marked the start of World War I with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The Black Hand, a Serbian nationalist secret society was responsible for the assassination of Ferdinand. On July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia because they blamed the deaths of the archduke and his wife on the country. Austria-Hungary gave Serbia a list of ultimatums saying that if they didn’t…

In the novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo, written by Steven Galloway, introduces the character of Kenan who struggles facing reality and is unable to make a difference due to his lack of confidence. Kenan attempts to live a life in which he disregards reality, which enables himself to not make a difference in a destructive city. Initially, Kenan was identified as a shy man who focused on illusions instead of the frightening present his family and the rest of Sarajevo is facing. In the beginning,…

Sarajevo Bear by Walter Pavlich What idea(s) does this poem suggest to you about hopelessness and ambitions? As one goes through life and tries to pursue one’s ambition, one sometimes hits upon hopelessness. The poem Sarajevo Bear deals with ambition and hopelessness. The Bosnians’ ambition was so powerful that it overcame the hopelessness of the situation. Ambition may be defined as “a strong desire to do or achieve something typically requiring determination and hard work.”1 The…

Hope One theme that is present in both the novel The Cellist of Sarajevo and the movie The Pianist is hope. Hope is shown in the novel in many ways: Kenan and the light bulb, Kenan and the water, and the Cellist playing his cello for the 22 dead. In the movie, hope is the biggest theme because of the fact that this is people living in WW2 under the control of the evil Nazi’s, more specifically Szpileman - who is a jew. During WW2 jews were cheated on by the Nazi’s for the fact that they are…

to play the piano, listens to MTV, and plays with her friends in her nearby park. All of that changes on March 1st 1992 when the Bosnian war breaks out in Zlata's home country. As a young girl, she never expected the war to reach her hometown of Sarajevo. When it did, she learnt the lesson of war- that people she love can die by a bullet or a bomb, life is harder without electricity or water, and that one of the most important things is family. As the war became harsher, she kept on writing in…

and wondering if it’s worse to be wounded or killed. He thinks it would be better to be seriously wounded, rather than die a long agonizing death or die instantly and “plunge without warning into the darkness.” Context Analysis: In The Cellist of Sarajevo, the theme of death and injury comes up quite often. Dragan is addressing his fears regarding being shot. Dragan has thus far, been unable to cross the street. He believes he will be shot, this is partially because he is very pessimistic. He…

In “”The Bright Lights of Sarajevo””, the writer made sure to use imagery by portraying war as ‘massacre’, ‘’blood-dunken crusts’ and ‘broken dead’’. War is meant to be taken seriously, but not to the point where people would do nothing else but hide. Alliteration can be seen on the…

Upon first read, Fay Weldon’s “Out of Love in Sarajevo” and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” have conflicting topics. The former consists of an affair between a married professor and knowledge-seeking student, while the latter consists of the shock and subsequent concept of freedom from a newly-made widow. Reading deeper into the stories reveals a similar sense of family presented in contrasting ways. “The Story of an Hour” guides the reader through a wide variety of emotions as an…