The first thing I would like to say about this book.. is I am glad there were pictures. It really helps me visually understand what I am reading… since there was a lot of information.. i also think the author had a really creative reporting style which was cool.
The biggest thing I got from this book is that The war of Eastern Bosnia was all about the division of two cultures… I was suprised that I had never even heard of this War before and a little shocked … because usually I at least no the name of things that happened and I just didnt in this case…
It makes me sad that one person can divide a whole country that had been living in peace for so long. What got me was the realization that neighbors and friends were just turning on each other like there was no history between them. Ethnic battles are always the hardest for me to read about because I just cant imagine going through that…It’s also hard for me to understand how rational people can be influenced to do such irrational, horrible things. How can people just kill others, torch houses, tear apart families, with no letigamate reason behind it… there are so many devasting stories throughout this whole book…
This book was really eye opening and I feel really horrible for the Muslims it seems like they go through so much for their religion and beleifs… and this style of book was so much better than just trying to read endless facts about a war…
July 4, 2008 at 9:56 pm
I agree with you, reading a graphic novel helped me understand the conflict much better than a textbook would have been able to. Unfortunatley, the Muslim community has been persecuted for their religious beliefs for ages. Sacco’s goal was to present fair and unbiased information and through his work educate the world about what happened in Bosnia so that type of conflict does not occur again, hopefully. Reading it made me wonder what my life would have been like had my neighbors and friends killed and suppressed me for my religious beliefs…..scary.