[E–pub/Pdf] Zlatin dnevnik AUTHOR Zlata Filipović

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Zlatin dnevnik Read & download Þ PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Zlata Filipović ✓ 2 Free read It describes It begins as the day today record of the life of a typical eleven year old girl preoccupied by piano lessons and birthday parties But as war engulfs Sarajevo Zlata Filipovic becomes a witness to food shortag Why do I like this book so much I really do Who is able to convene in this way all the pain the tragedy and humanity and inhumanity of war without any fancy shmancy false talk without any presumptuousness any falsity or hidden agenda Simply by scanning the events that matter from when you understand that this is different It s not fiction This is 1st person singular non fiction Nothing s invented When this got to my brain I cried even though so many years have passed since I had the first chance to read it Then it would have been just too muchIt is written with simple language appropriate for an 11 12 year old little girl who happens to be living in Sarajevo between 1991 and 1993 She s just like any other pre teenager from the Western industrialized rich world She comes from a good literate and cultured family and therefore she can write and express herself fairly well for her age But there is a difference by the time you reach page 50 she won t be any pre teenager from the Western industrialized rich world Firstly because she ll be demonstrating how mature she is or has become her parents take care of what she eats but her psychological strength will permit her to take care of them as well Secondly because by the time she celebrates her next birthday her country will be light years away from the civilized Western rich world It will be a totally different country territorially split and divided and thorn into pieces and sociologically wounded and crippled and light years away from the country it was in 1984 when the Winter Olympic Games were held in Sarajevo I read that her diary should be compared to other such diaries Anne Frank comes to my mind but I am not sure She had probably read it herself It s so easy to feel connected to her because even though I did not experience any of the hell she s describing I can still understand because I grew up in ex Yugoslavia in Croatia Her account is accurate and credible What she describes writing seeing friends partying dreaming you did all that at her age as well or maybe that s what your kids nephews and nieces cousins are doing now But she s also giving an account of all the miseries of that particular warher family friends and members are Croatian and Muslim and Serbianbut it s the kids who play at war And when I think of the conditions they lived in no water no food no places to bury your dead I think of how amazing it is that they kept sane and human Yes

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Zlatin dnevnik Read & download Þ PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Zlata Filipović ✓ 2 Free read Es and the deaths of friends and learns to wait out bombardments in a neighbor’s cellar Yet throughout she remains courageous and observant The result is a book that has the power to move and instruct readers a world aw This story was so touching yet so heartbreaking at the same time The young girl who wrote this diary was in the Sarajevo war at the time One of the main themes in this book in my opinion is how wars can change people Zlata the author certainly changed in many ways I can feel her hope diminishing as time went on and things went worse Before the war she wrote about school friends and wanting a pet just like the rest of us As an eleven year old she sound very innocent and carefree Then the war erupted in her country Everything she once loved was destroyed Everything she once had was gone Everything she once hoped for was out of reach Her friends began to leave the country One of them got shot and died She suffered through so much yet she was just a child Hunger Violence Pain However even when there were no electricity in her house no food in her cabinet and no friend in her neighborhood she stayed optimistic She helped her family carry supplies when there were no food and water She played with her cat when violence was going on outside her door She played piano for joy when bombs were going off around the block I value her courage and cheerfulness As I read further into the book I found out that not only is Zlata optimistic for herself she was also encouraging her parents Her dad was angry because he lost his job and her mother worried for all of their relatives Even though she was a child Zlata was always there to comfort her parents and remind them of happiness I realized that she was the same age as us when that happened While we are convincing our parents to buy us things and arguing with them this girl was supporting adults and taking care of her family She changed so much from a kid just like us to a mature girl with the ability to help others She reminds me of a uote I read a few days ago you never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice Zlata proves that courage and strength doesn t relate to age but much to how you react to situations and how much you grow in a time of harshness Ancestral Lines: The Maisin of Papua New Guinea and the Fate of the Rainforest eBook: John Barker: Amazon.fr: Amazon Media EUS.à r.l. eleven year old she sound very innocent and carefree Then the war The Girls of the Rose Dormitory erupted in her country Everything she once loved was destroyed Everything she once had was gone Everything she once hoped for was out of reach Her friends began to leave the country One of them got shot and died She suffered through so much yet she was just a child Hunger Violence Pain However Antonioni or The Surface of the World even when there were no Weekend Language: Presenting with More Stories and Less PowerPoint electricity in her house no food in her cabinet and no friend in her neighborhood she stayed optimistic She helped her family carry supplies when there were no food and water She played with her cat when violence was going on outside her door She played piano for joy when bombs were going off around the block I value her courage and cheerfulness As I read further into the book I found out that not only is Zlata optimistic for herself she was also

Zlatin dnevnik Read & download Þ PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Zlata Filipović ✓ 2 Free read When Zlata’s Diary was first published at the height of the Bosnian War it became an international bestseller and was compared to The Diary of Anne Frank both for the freshness of its voice and the grimness of the world April 17 We got the UN relief package today YO BABY YO as the Fresh Prince of Bel Air would say Tried to watch Murphy Brown but the sound was drowned out by shelling I know MORE shelling and then the rabbit ears were exploded by a sniper s bullet RUDE Pepsi just came out with limited edition cans with Linda Evangelista on them I wish I could get one I haven t tasted processed sugar in over five months Got an A in math biology and piano The piano was exploded so had to mime the recital Still I only made two mistakes yrsZlataZlata Filipovic actually comes across as a very bright and sensitive 11 year old in her diaries but the pop culture references weirded me out This text is like a mashup of Anne Frank and White Noise Maybe I reacted this way because I was born the same time as her and I was doing and watching and thinking many of the same things at age 11 minus cowering in the cellar during rounds of ethnic cleansing The most astonishing thing in reading this is that the causes of war and the motives of the warring factions were too convoluted for a very smart 11 yr old to try to sort out even as she was being victimized by those disputes Unlike Anne Frank where there is a sure sense of who the bad people are and what they want to do violence here seems arbitrary and destined to continue forever artillery is just bad weather that has moved in to stay