The experience a person has while reading a novel, directly relates to the word choice and organization, the author creates emotion, simple understanding to help further develop characters. The Cellist of Sarajevo follows three different characters through their experiences and struggles of living during the Bosnian war. The war had a great impact on all three of the characters, Arrow, Dragan, and Keenan, they were forced to live and make decisions that could affect their own well-being. Steven Galloway’s novel uses an effective writing style as his word choices show beneficial repetition of phrases, simple word choice that gives all readers a greater understanding and organization to further develop characters.
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Galloway strongly develops his characters, you get to thoroughly understand their struggles, feelings, and thoughts on war. You get a glimpse into their everyday lives as he develops three very strong characters that are living in extremely different situations. The feeling and thoughts of characters are portrayed efficiently throughout. For example, on page 190 Galloway does an excellent job of giving an insight into Arrow's character: “Does she think she is good because she kills bad men? She knows she no longer kills them because they are killing her fellow citizens. That’s just a part of it. She kills them because she hates them.” You can see that Arrow is contemplating her feelings about war and having to kill people around her, she does not know what to think and feel anymore. Galloway emphasizes the emotion of the characters so that they come across more realistic and give the reader a better understanding of the war itself. Galloway knows that people respond to emotion and thoughts, people will feel the emotions themselves while reading therefore causing them to create a deep connection with not only the plot line, but also the characters. By using thoughtful organizations he has created a novel that you can feel, when you can feel it you will automatically empathise with the character tugs at one's heart strings; one that the reader can emotionally relate to on more than just a …show more content…
Using his characters he expresses how war can have many negative effects on people. He shares the emotion and thoughts of war through the eyes of different well developed characters. His writing style leaves you thinking about what life would be like if you were living through a war. It makes you think about what kind of person you would be if you were faced with the situation. His writing makes you feel as though you are lucky to be living the life you do. The topic of war is something that needs to spread throughout society. Just like in this novel no one want to be involved in war so the better understating we have as a society the more likely we are to prevent it from happening. We live our lives like nothing is going to happen but he need to change our thinking and beware that war can happen