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Summary: Zlata's Diary is a clear and concise portrayal war life.
Review: The book Zlata's Diary is a touching and in- depth portrayal of the life of a scared and innocent child during the war. The details of the day to day living and the suffering they endured are eye opening and frightening. The story is one that should be read throughout schools across the world to bring light to the realities of war. Maybe books like this should also be required for politicians to read when they are sworn ito office. This might create a concern for the people of the world and broaden the politicians' visions on life. The concern for any and everyone's life should come before the selfish political concerns of world leaders. All in all, Zlata's Diary is a clear and detailed portrayal of the life of a helpless family and young girl during the war.
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Summary: charlies review
Review: The book zlatas diary is very descriptive about the war in sarajevo. it is about a girl who kept a diary of evry thin that happened during the war. She encountered many hardships. During the war, she sometimes had to stay in one room the whole entire day becuase there were shells being fired. If you like books about modern history about people this is the book for you. There are times when she lost electricity and water. She had to use many of her items sparingly. what i like most about the book is how she made bad days feel a little better. This book was fantastico. I recomend it to anyone and i guarentee you will enjoy it. BYE BYE
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Summary: good review of war, but more feelings
Review: The diary was a great summary of the war and how it affected the youth. It is a good book to read to realize that there is still some conflict in our world and not all people are living in peace. However, I would like to hear more on how Zlata felt. After she was notified that her diary was being published, she talked more about the war than on her feelings. I feel that if she commented on the war (what was going on) AND talked about how she felt, it would make the book more interesting.
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Summary: Zlata's Diary
Review: The plot of "Zlata's Diary", by Zlata Filipovic, is interesting because it is very detailed of the war in Sarajevo and the life of the people there.I liked this book because i'v learnd about the war in Sarajevo in 1991 and about the life of a girl who lived in the war. She talks about her feelings of the war, what she does in her spare time, and everything about what went on during the war. I liked this book because Zlata is always talkind\g about how she worries about all the innocent people in the Sarajevo war. I liked the part when Zlata said NO ONE AND NOTHING HERE IS NORMAL!I also liked it when she said,"I will try to get through all this, with your help Mimmy[her diary], hoping that it will all pass and... that I will be a child again, living my childhood in peace.I liked the way Zlata was concerned about everyone elses lives and not just her own. I would recommend this book to everyone ages 12 and up.
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Summary: Zlata's Diary
Review: The plot of "Zlata's Diary", by Zlata Filipovic, is interesting because it is very detailed of the war in Sarajevo and the life of the people there.I liked this book because i'v learnd about the war in Sarajevo in 1991 and about the life of a girl who lived in the war. She talks about her feelings of the war, what she does in her spare time, and everything about what went on during the war. I liked this book because Zlata is always talkind\g about how she worries about all the innocent people in the Sarajevo war. I liked the part when Zlata said NO ONE AND NOTHING HERE IS NORMAL!I also liked it when she said,"I will try to get through all this, with your help Mimmy[her diary], hoping that it will all pass and... that I will be a child again, living my childhood in peace.I liked the way Zlata was concerned about everyone elses lives and not just her own. I would recommend this book to everyone ages 12 and up.
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Summary: TRIUMPH THROUGH THE TRAGEDY OF WAR
Review: The story of Zlata Filipovic is a very touching story of a young girl that escaped the terrors of war not just physically, but through writing in her diary which she fondly refers to as "Mimmie." This story brings a sense of reality to the wars that we read about in newpapers and watch on TV - it tells the stories of people just like you and me who find themselves caught in the middle of the ugliness of war. Zlata's story has an added sense of innocence to it because it is told through the writings of a child - through her eyes in the way she saw it. Zlata Filipovic is the story of a courageous individual, who as we see in the book along with her fmily managed to escape the horrors of war after writing her story. I feel that her story gives us a similar perspective to that which Anne Frank gave us through the diary which she kept during World War II.
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Summary: Zlatas diary
Review: The title of my book is Zlatas diary by Zlata Filipovic.The story takes place in the summer of 1993. The location of the story takes place in Sarajevo. The characters I will be talking about are Malik Zlatas father, Alica Zlatas mother, Braco and Seka. In this story there is a little girl named Zlata.She is writting in her diary about what happens to her and her family in the war.In the story Zlata and her family are fleed out of Sarajevo so that they would be safe and that they would not get killed. Zlatas grandma and grandpa were almost killed as well as some of there friends. My favirote passage in the story was Tuesday september 10,1991 The week was spent getting books and school supplies describing how we spent out holidays on the seaside,in the mountains,in the country side and aborad. We all went somewhere and we all have so much to tell one another. I would recomend anyone who likes to read diarys, to read this book. HAPPY READING
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Summary: Zlata's Diary
Review: The title of this book is Zlata's Diary. The author of this book is Zlata Filipovic. This diary of Zlata takes place in Sarajevo in the year of 1992. The message is to tell about how a girl named Zlata has to go through a terrible war. Zlata has lived through a rough life. She has had people die and also move away. This is sad if you are sensitive. Who I recommend this book to would be people who like diaries and also people who like to learn about recent wars. I would compare this book to the Dear America books because it is written in diary form. I liked this book because it was very interesting. It also kept you hanging to see what happened next. On the other hand I did not like the sad parts. The reason it was sad is because people were dying. Amber Measell
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Summary: A young girl's journey from childhood to war
Review: This book is a must-read/must-have for anyone! I was deeply moved by Zlata's accounts of life in Sarajevo and found myself in tears many times. Having friends from Bosnia, I often wonder what life was like for them during the war but was always too afraid to ask. Zlata's Diary answered many of my questions and gave me a better understanding of the true tragedy of war. Everyone should read this book.
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Summary: This is a bigger atrocity than the siege itself....
Review: This book is an atrocity against the truth. It is composed in the spirit of Anne Frank (i.e. hijacked the memory of a Jewish girl who died in the Holocaust) and was greatly tampered with by the Bosnian government. The ploy was not even toned down....near the end Zlata becomes a mouthpiece of Alija Izetbegovic. Those who may not have noticed the cunning little hints and enticing propaganda all along then are bewildered why we do not hear about the girl, but rather about the politics of the period. This book is especially shameful in that it attempts to draw revolting parallels between the siege of Sarajevo and the Holocaust (via the Anne Frank motif, of course). The hypocrisy of this is incredible. Alija Izetbegovic, of course, tried to join the SS HANDZAR division in Bosnia at the age of 15. He was too young to slaughter Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies, though. So instead, he manipulates world opinion by selling us this grotesque notion, using the legacy of the very people that suffered at the hands of the Bosnian Moslems (and Croats) during WWII (i.e. the Jews, Serbs, and Gypsies), to cloud up the truth. The siege wasn't nearly as bad as is portrayed in this propagandist's fantasy book. The two most notorious massacres, the Vase Miskina and Markale massacres were, as it was later seen, perpetrated by the Bosnian government to inspire sympathy in the West, and an accusation and military action against the Serbs. This well-crafted piece of propaganda, among other such tools, was to have a cruel effect in forming world opinion and precluding the voice of the Serbs of Sarajevo, who were suffering a far worse fate than the Moslems and Croats. Within this "moral city" Moslem and Croat paramilitary units were operating and slaughtering thousands of Serbs, killing and raping some in their homes, dragging others off to camps to torture them. Hundreds of these Serbian bodies were found piled up, decapitated, in a canyon on nearby Mt. Trebevic. The perpetrators go by names such as Jusuf Prazina Juka, Musan Topalvic Caco, Ismet Bajramovic Celo 1, Ramiz Delalic Celo 2, etc. As for camps, my father's best friend, who was NOT a Serb but was accused of being a Serb by his Moslem neighbors, was abducted, forced into a Moslem-run concentration camp in this "worthy metropolis", and killed by having his head cut off.
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