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Zlata's Diary By Zlatas Filipovic Penguin Books c. 1995 Zlata's Diary is a book about a young girls life during a war in Sarajevo. As the book begins, Zlatas Filipovic is a normal little girl going to school and having fun. She has lots of friends, does well in school, has a wonderful family life, and is as happy as any little girl could want to be. Slowly, throughout the book, things start to get worse. She starts out talking about her grades and how happy she had been with school, and how the biggest of her worries is that she is sick on her birthday. Then she moves on to talk about the war in Dubrovnik and how she is praying for them.
Slowly, the war starts to move to Sarajevo. The book goes from, I am tired, but happy, to, My life is one of no electricity, no water, no gas, no school which isnt school, rice, macaroni, a bit of green beans from Melecas garden, the occasional sweets, my piano, and of course you, Miami. I really enjoyed the begining of the book, but I felt that after awhile it was the same thing over, and over again. For example, June 23, The electricity went out at eight oclock last night.
July 7, There was no water yesterday, or the day befor, or the day befor that. She goes on to say the same thing repetitive only days later and throughout the whole book. I think the book would have been better for younger kids. I think kids that were more around Zlata's age could have related to her better.
I was also dissapointed about the emotion she had, To explain that she was sad she would simply say, Boo-Hoo. Her friends would die ir her family members would leave and that was the only emotion she would express. She didnt really write how she felt in a way we could relate to. I think, if she would have had more emotion, and also not so much repetitive writing, we could have understood her better and I believe I would have enjoyed the book more. Bibliography Zlata's Diary Book report
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