Thursday, March 3, 2011
Grade 8: Reaction to the preface and introduction (due before class Friday, March 4th)
Zlata wrote her preface as an adult, while her diary was written while she was still a child. How do you think her feelings about the Bosnian War might have changed between those times? Did anything surprise you about the introduction? What can you predict will be included in her diary?
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ReplyDeleteI think her feelings might have changed because it was something in her past and mostly everybody has different feelings between the past and the present. So yes I think her feelings have changed bout the war. Nothing surprised me in the introduction. What I can predict that is going to be in her diary is maybe how she thinks about the war and how it is affecting her life.
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1 I think when she was still young she would have a lesser understanding the cause of the war or who were fighting who. Now she has grown up and as she was growing up she got a better idea of what was going on around that time she was a kid
ReplyDelete2 yes the fact that such a little girl had to have such bad life seeing her friends die before her
3 I can predict that since this a dairy she will have a dairy entry every day telling us about what went on.
Hello Ms Gelso and fellow classmates
ReplyDeleteAs Zlata also admits in the book, her feelings about the Bosnian War were strong but weak to stop it. When she had to leave from Sarajevo and go somewhere else she thought that she wouldn't manage to keep on. However, there the chances of being heard grew bigger, and she achieved to express herself while before she couldn't. She told people that she lost family members and close friends who couldn't escape. She ended doing that not for the war, but for all those who unfairly died. That's why the "Zlata's Diary" touched many people all over the world and she received so many letters of support.
The introduction of the book was quite impressing, because there the journalist could ask Zlata (and family) more personal questions, so that the readers can learn more about their feelings. One thing I liked was that Zlata's mother asked the journalist to go to check if her sister is fine. With this, we can see that people then didn't only care about themselves and didn't ignore everybody else. Also their enthusiasm when they saw food was very interesting.
So, I predict that Zlata in her diary will be concerned about the people left behind and that maybe there will be a moment of deep depress when she will need everybody's support.
During Zlatas’ adultry, having past the bad moments of terror and anxiouty of war, she realizes to be in safety. During her infancy, instead, she didn’t have the security of living the day after.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that surprised me the most in the introduction, were the sensation that Zlata had as an adult, remembering the times of the war.
I think that reading Zlatas' diary many important facts on war will be described.
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ReplyDeleteZlata wrote her preface as an adult, while her diary was written while she was still a child. During these change of years, Zlata’s memory didn’t really change anymore, since the terrific moments of war never left her alone. But, at least, she understands how fortunate she had been to survive, while her parents and friends, (Nina), died during the war.
As I read the introduction, I kind of understood how much hard the life neded to be in those moments. But there was a fact that impressioned me a lot, and this was the sensations that Zlata hade as she would walk again throught her infancy, and remember all those bad and terrific moments.
Finally, I think that as we will read the “book-diary”, we will dicover ho w Zlata live the war, her sensations, and some comparisons of her life between the pre-war, and during the war.
Hello Everyone!
ReplyDeleteI think that Zlata's feelings about the Bosnian War change between those times in a good way. Because it's an experience some of us never get to experience, or never want to. My opinion is that Zlata can consider herself an hero since she wrote this book first of all, and that she also survived. The introduction was unusual in a very unique way that I've never seen before in a book, talking about herself in 3rd person!!
I predict that in her diary some photos of her and her childhood will be included
I think her feelings changed because there was the was so she is sad because his friends died. It suprised me that she talked about what she ate and she is very sad and also very worried of what is going to happen to her.
ReplyDeleteI think she is going to talk about her life at that times and what she is doing, and what she is going to do and what is going on.
1) I think she definitely looks at it with a more mature point of view than when she was a child. Although I think that a person’s opinion on a serious event like that couldn’t change much. She clearly hasn’t forgotten the feelings she experienced during that time. I can’t imagine how a person could ever get over it when a family member or a close friend is killed like that, with absolutely no reason whatsoever. I think she is a very strong to not let that get the best of her.
ReplyDelete2) What surprised me the most about the introduction was how honest and straight forward it was. I really got a clear idea about what to be expected in the diary. I liked how Janine Di Giovanni described her impression of Zlata and her family. Overall I think that was a really informative introduction that will be good to know for the reading ahead.
3) I think that there will be many emotional and sad times included in her diary. Deaths of friends, food shortages, and days spent waiting out bombardments in a neighbor’s cellar are some of the things that I think will be included. Hopefully some good times as well.
Good job, everyone!
ReplyDeletePlease note that when we refer to an adult, we say that he or she is in his "adulthood" and when we refer to a child in his or her "childhood."
Hi everyone!
ReplyDeleteI don't think Zalta's opinions and feelings changed about the Bosnian was throughout her life because the way she was talking in the preface about how she tells the story to everyone about the war and she wants people to know how it feels like to losing someone close to you. The one thing that surprised me about the introduction was that I didn't expect her to be so happy and full of life after going through a tough time of war. Last but not least, I think this diary is going to be about Zlata's life and how she actually survived during that time and what did she learn from it.
@ Halla
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you Halla about her honesty and how straight forward she was in the preface telling everyone happily something that was very somber and sad to hear.The introduction was very convincing and interesting, it kept me reading which is very hard for someone to do.
Hello Everyone!
ReplyDeleteAs I read her diary, at first, I had difficulties accepting to believe that the woman in the preface is her. When Zlata was younger, she was more joyful and she was more innocent, less conscious of the troubles that were around her. As she grew older, she became more aware and informed about the war. She progressively understood the gravity of the situation through the impact on her family and close friends. She wanted to make people who read the preface feel her pain and the dramas that happened in her childhood during the war. However, what positively surprised and impressed me is that she does complain as a victim although she underlines the sadness and unfairness of the situation imposed on her as well as on other children and civilians. She reports what's going on with precision and helps the reader understand and participate to her feelings
In all, it can be said that through this tough life experience she grew really mature in a faster and deeper manner than other children in Europe at that time who were not exposed to such hardship.