Analysing images of hope and destruction in Galloway's 'The Cellist of Sarajevo'
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- Q1In 'The Cellist of Sarajevo', where does the cellist live?SarajevoVeniceItalyDresden30s
- Q2When is 'The Cellist of Sarajevo' set?1990s17th century194530s
- Q3What is interesting about the way Galloway structures the opening paragraph of 'The Cellist of Sarajevo'?The writer only uses complex sentences to withhold information for longer.The pace and order of sentences mirrors the course of the weapon falling.The writer zooms into the cellist's perspective of the destruction.30s
- Q4What story seems to permeate the opening three paragraphs of 'The Cellist of Sarajevo'?the cellist sheltering from an attackthe restoration of a charred musical manuscriptthe cellist playing music as a child30s
- Q5What is it important to do when analysing a text?ask yourself why a writer made certain stylistic decisionspick out language techniquesfind at least five quotations30s
- Q6Why might Galloway have used the verbs "screamed", "splitting" and "exploded" to describe the way the weapon falls in 'The Cellist of Sarajevo'?to emphasise the universality of the brutality of warto emphasise the hope of the citizensto emphasise how it had the power to destroy everything in the citizens' lives30s