Zlata's Diary? Her lessons?

Question

Can you plz tell me what lessons Zlata teaches in the book? List it, and plz explain why this is important. Thanks!

Answer 1

I think I answered earlier to somebody on Zlata's Diary . The review of her book itself will tell us why this book is so truthfully sad and yet so much to learn from a little child !

Zlata was a girl of 11 when the war in Sarajevo broke out . for next two years she saw and underwent horrors of life which few people face in their tender age. A review of her diary is given below. You will see the stark reality of a sad and horrendous life that she led. The lessons are obvious , let us remain in harmony, in love and cooperation. Let us understand and sort out our differences by talk rather than by the cruel and sanguinary war.

Zlata's Diary (ISBN 0-14-024205-8) is a book by Zlata Filipović, a young girl living in Sarajevo while it was under siege in 1992.

Zlata wrote her diary (whom she called Mimmy) from 1991 to 1993 during the Bosnian war. She starts the fifth grade in the beginning of 1991 and she reunites her friends and her family.The war begins just before her eleventh birthday. It chronicles her daily life as war has an increasing impact on her city. She has been described as the Anne Frank of Sarajevo and, like The Diary of Anne Frank, it contains many descriptions of the horrors of war as a view from the innocence of a child. The parallels are further aided by the fact that the war Zlata lives through is motivated by ethnic and religious differences.

Zlata describes the day that the war started as "The day that time stood still". Zlata rarely had food, water, gas, or electricity, and lived in poverty and fear during this time. Some of her friends got killed by pieces of shrapnel and others that she loved dearly have gone to different places of the world to escape this horror. This hurt her very much.

Her diary has also been adapted into a choral work by Anthony Powers. The choral work was premiered by the Highcliffe Junior Choir and is featured on their CD One Small Voice.