Cellist of Sarajevo Characters by Sarah LeFebre https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e What do we learn about the Bosnian Civil War through each character's point of view? Cite examples/textual evidence. en-us 2018-01-29 18:38:36 UTC 2025-12-09 15:00:41 UTC hello@padlet.com Daniel https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227042463 People like arrow lose themselves to the war and are no longer who they were before the war. ]]> 2018-02-01 14:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227042463 Alex A https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227042578 The water system was destroyed.]]> 2018-02-01 14:16:24 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227042578 Aldo https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227042872 I've learned from the cellist that the bombing or shelling as what they call it in the book that innocents died from the "men on the hills' because of the war. They intentionally killed these unarmed victims just to do so. ]]> 2018-02-01 14:16:51 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227042872 Raven https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227043951 Arrow is taking a great risk, more so a suicide mission, by protecting the cellist and keeping him alive. No other soldier would take this job but would rather "sit on the hills and earn their dirty money in relative safety."]]> 2018-02-01 14:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227043951 Manny https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227045680 I learned that the War has changed Arrow. It made her a weapon.

]]> 2018-02-01 14:20:55 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227045680 Aniya https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227046506 Through Arrow I learned that Sarajevo used to be lively and beautiful place.]]> 2018-02-01 14:22:05 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227046506 Ana Tapia https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227048877 The war made it hard to see/talk to people you knew before the war.]]> 2018-02-01 14:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227048877 Luke https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227053124 I learned that Arrow needs to be smart when plotting to kill the person whose trying to kill the cellist. ]]> 2018-02-01 14:31:06 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227053124 Maria G https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227053559 I learned that she is very smart and using different tips to try and catch the sniper she is brave and wants to try fix what she can the war has changed her in a lot of different ways.

]]> 2018-02-01 14:31:41 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227053559 Caitie https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227053854 Money was pretty much worthless, and most people were paid in goods like bread/food instead]]> 2018-02-01 14:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227053854 Evan https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227060419 The people of Sarajevo would do anything to preserve hope for their city and their families. It was important to keep the Cellist alive because he acted as a symbol of hope for the Sarajevan people.]]> 2018-02-01 14:41:25 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227060419 Ezra https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227062820 Even firefighters are targets to the men on the hills]]> 2018-02-01 14:44:59 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227062820 Laura https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227070096 I have learned that Arrow feels the need to protect the people in the city. ]]> 2018-02-01 14:56:22 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227070096 Melisenda https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227073016 The war has made people have to admit to themselves that they are not as brave as they thought. Kenan is afraid to leave his house to get water, because he knows he doesn't want to die. In the first chapter, he drops to the floor outside his apartment door and doesn't want to go.

]]> 2018-02-01 15:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227073016 Bailey https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227192645 The cellist cared for his friends and family that passed so much that he would dedicate 22 days of his music for them]]> 2018-02-01 18:09:53 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227192645 Annalise Mancinelli https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227193054 “The last time I saw him, he told me, ‘What is coming is worse than anything you can imagine,’” 
Dragan says. “He killed himself the day the war began.” 
Emina shakes her head. “This cannot be as bad as what happened in those camps.”
Dragan considers this, wonders how relative suffering is. “No, it’s not. I don’t think he thought it 
would be. But I think he believed that what he and others suffered there meant something, that people had learned from it. But they haven’t.” 
“Haven’t they?” Emina asks. 
“Look around,” Dragan answers. 
]]> 2018-02-01 18:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227193054 Thadd https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227193077 We learn that everyone is involved, no matter who they are. Dragan shows this when he tells his point of view of watching innocent people get shot from behind a boxcar.]]> 2018-02-01 18:10:43 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227193077 Andres Garcia https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227193165 Kill or be killed.

]]> 2018-02-01 18:10:52 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227193165 Jose P https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227193209 he cared for the people waiting in line for bread and saw them get killed in front of him so now he will play for 22 days straight.]]> 2018-02-01 18:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227193209 Kevin T https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227193391 Very perceptive and has a lot of pride, and a lot of memories she cherishes. She fights for her own cause.]]> 2018-02-01 18:11:19 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227193391 Vanessa https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227193742 Reminisces of being a little girl

]]> 2018-02-01 18:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227193742 Kaitlyn Busler https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227193800 No one was safe.]]> 2018-02-01 18:12:04 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227193800 Cecelia Kronemeyer https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227194366 The war changed Arrow because she tries to make a decision about getting a scoop of ice cream but decides against it. The smallest decisions become the hardest because there is always a threat. ]]> 2018-02-01 18:13:09 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227194366 Jose P https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227194407 a girl that will do anything to stop the snipers hurting her people.]]> 2018-02-01 18:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227194407 Luke Seiler https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227194434 They wouldn't be shut inside like invalids, exhausted from another night of wondering if a shell was about to land on their house.]]> 2018-02-01 18:13:17 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227194434 Jose P https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227195412 men on the hill are shooting down on people helping]]> 2018-02-01 18:14:52 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227195412 Adriana Arias https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227195637 “She expected to feel altered from the person she was, or hoped to be“ She is starting to believe she is becoming a weapon. ]]> 2018-02-01 18:15:17 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227195637 Jose P https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227196434 "i'm not really sure exactly what it is he does. All i know is that hes gone almost all the time."]]> 2018-02-01 18:16:30 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227196434 https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227199009 She’s is trying to keep the cellist alive so she’s going to kill the snipest before they kill celist]]> 2018-02-01 18:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227199009 Jose R https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227200980 the cellist is the hope for everyone by playing his cello.]]> 2018-02-01 18:24:02 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227200980 Daniel Arellano https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227202550 She's insanely smart. She's a girl who isnt afraid of anything and willing to do anything and everything to protect her town.]]> 2018-02-01 18:26:30 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227202550 Chris Mendoza https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227203053 Having pride and knowledge into survival, in this and that needs to do what she knows whats right 

]]> 2018-02-01 18:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227203053 Meigan https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227207765 Just trying to get basic needs for survival is difficult. Even just crossing the street can get you killed. 

]]> 2018-02-01 18:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227207765 Annalise Mancinelli https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227210155 "They made her hate. They started the war, saying that the people of Sarajevo hated each other, and the people fought back, saying they didn't, that they were a city without hatred. But then the men on the hills started to kill and mutilate. And little by little they got what they wanted, a victory as clear as it would be if they could drive their tanks through the town. They made her, and people like her, hate them"(95)]]> 2018-02-01 18:38:07 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227210155 Cecelia V https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227218725 "Did he get anyone?" Emina looks genuinely concerned. This trikes Dragon as odd.]]> 2018-02-01 18:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227218725 Kaitlyn Lim https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227274486 There are only two ways out now. Either you know someone with power, and you get a pass 
through the tunnel, or you have money. Other than that, you’re stuck.
]]> 2018-02-01 20:34:25 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227274486 I learned arrow was changed by the war, she sees herself as a weapon now https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227473857 koby

]]> 2018-02-02 13:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227473857 Annalise Mancinelli https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227889325 "He’s tired. He’s tired from getting water, and he’s tired from the world he lives in, a world he never wanted and had no part in creating and wishes didn’t exist. He’s tired of carrying water for a woman who has never had a kind word to say to him, who acts as if she’s doing him a favor, whose bottles don’t have handles and who refuses to switch. If she likes the bottles so much, she should carry them to the brewery, she should watch as the street fills with blood and then washes itself clean, as a man stands with an empty leash and looks for a brown terrier while the dead are loaded into a van"(70).


]]> 2018-02-04 18:49:08 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227889325 Viviana M https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227959160 I learned that Arrow uses her best judgement on who to kill. She doesn't know if she'k killing an innocent person or not. Because you just don't know anyone anymore or who they used to be.]]> 2018-02-05 04:02:58 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/227959160 Jonathom Ransom https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228090890 2018-02-05 13:34:05 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228090890 Jonathom Ransom https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228090969 I've learned that people would go by false names/ codenames so when they were done with the war they could leave that person and name with the war.]]> 2018-02-05 13:34:16 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228090969 Cecelia Villarreal https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228175605 The men on the hills were a minor inconvenience that would be resolved at any moment. Sanity would prevail.]]> 2018-02-05 15:49:02 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228175605 Adrian Rodriguez https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228212952 I've Learned that Arrow has joined the war to defend the innocent people. She also fights really hard to keep the cellist alive.]]> 2018-02-05 16:45:55 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228212952 Ben R. https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228217087 He’s afraid of dying. He may very well die at any time, whether he’s in the army or not, but he 
feels that as a civilian his chances are lower, and if he’s killed it will be unjust, whereas for a soldier 
death is part of the job. If he ends up in the army, he knows that sooner or later he will have to kill 
someone. And as afraid as he is of dying, he’s more afraid of killing.
]]> 2018-02-05 16:51:55 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228217087 Luke Seiler https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228233317 “DO YOU THINK,” DRAGAN ASKS, “IT’S WORSE TO BE wounded or killed?” 
He’s not sure why he asked Emina this question. It seems almost frivolous, like asking if it’s 
better to be boiled alive using water or cooking oil.

]]> 2018-02-05 17:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228233317 Maria https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228253835 He want to honor the deaths of his friends so their deaths won't go unremembered like most people in war]]> 2018-02-05 17:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228253835 Ty LeFurge https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228274879 The cellist was a voice for everyone that was terrified from the war. He was a voice of hope for people. Playing for 22 days straight in the midst of all the chaos, to be civilized ]]> 2018-02-05 18:23:44 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228274879 Sam https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228421951 Kenan learned that there is a certain way to cross the bridge, to stay safe from the snipers. ]]> 2018-02-06 02:53:38 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228421951 Will M. https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228598018 The cellist decides to stand for an injustice he sees everyday in the city. He doesn't do what he does for himself, but to oppose what is happening, in the name of civilization.

]]> 2018-02-06 14:11:45 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228598018 Dorian https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228598366 Kenan helps show how bad the war was with how he had to go far just to go and get water for his family and for his neighbor. Also how he has to run across the streets trying not to get killed. ]]> 2018-02-06 14:12:12 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228598366 Dalila M https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228616221 "She's never failed before, and she would rather not find out how her army views such failures"
"She's able to hear them in her mind before she hears them with her ears, to fill in those that are drowned out by the street and the shells and her own concentration]]> 2018-02-06 14:37:36 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228616221 Beatrice S. https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228755769 "Everything that came before, all the small things that somehow added up without her even noticing, made the act of killing an afterthought. A weapon doesn't decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made." page 83 ]]> 2018-02-06 18:01:13 UTC https://padlet.com/slefebre/s7xtp5st5j9e/wish/228755769