The Cellist Of Sarajevo Character Analysis

Have you ever had to split your personality for years and adapt to this new personality, well if you haven’t, a great way to understand how it feel is reading The Cellist of Sarajevo¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬, written by Steven Galloway. This story takes the perspective of a university student, Arrow, who has split her personality to become a sniper and fight against the attacking forces, and defend the city if Sarajevo. She is able to choose her own targets, but when her commander assigns her a target she starts to slowly change her personality back to the innocent university student. Throughout The Cellist of Sarajevo, written by Steven Galloway, the fictional character, Arrow, turns from her soldier personality, back to her pre-war, nonviolent, university student self. At the beginning of the story Arrow had no problem killing people. She was in an old building when, “… her finger goes from resting on the trigger to squeezing it, and a bullet breaks the sound barrier an instant before pulping fabric, skin, bone, flesh, and organ, …show more content…
When her commander assigns her to kill an enemy sniper that is after the cellist she struggles. For several minutes, Arrow does nothing, “…she watches the sniper through the scope of her rifle and listens to the music lift off the street. It makes her sad. A heavy, slow kind of sad, the sort that does not bring you to tears but makes you feel like crying. It is, she thinks, the worst feeling there could be.” (Galloway 134-135). Arrow struggles with killing the enemy sniper because she sees him listening to the music of the cellist. He gets the feeling of hope that everyone gets from the cellist’s music, but when the cellist finishes and the sniper is about to kill the cellist Arrow has to kill the enemy sniper. Arrow killed the enemy sniper because she had to, but when she has had enough of the war and completely snaps, she may not fight

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