The Yugolslav wars was a series of wars fought from 1991 to 1995. These wars were typically ethnic conflicts between the Serbs and Croats/Bosniaks and is generally considered to be the deadliest European conflict since WWII. According toInternational Center for Transitional Justice, the Yugoslav Wars resulted in deaths of 140,000 people.
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
Author's background
The author of "Love and Obstacles", Aleksandar Hemon, was born in Yugoslavia and became a published writer at the age of 26. He has lived in the U.S since 1992 when he became stranded here at the outbreak of the War in Bosnia. All of his books have to do with either the Yugoslavia wars, or Bosnia.
Friday, December 2, 2011
The Troubles
When I first started reading the two stories I was confused about when and where the stories took place. After some reading it seems they are set around the 80s in northern england during what is considerd the troubles, basically an undeclared war between the protestant brits and the catholic irish.
Fathers hatred
Everything In This Country Must left me confused and amazed. How much the father must have hated soldiers that eventhough the saved his favorite and prized horse, once they left he went to the barn and shot the animal. What was the poor man thinking? Im not ssure about the prices of horses in mid 80s england but here a fully trained draft will bring anywhere from 1000 to $8000 depending on pedigree, conformation, and temperment. The man is also left without what seems to be a very capable plow horse. besides the economic impact the man has lost another piece of his family or atleast thats how my horses are treated. So whaat is the difference between him killing his favorite horse and the soldiers accidently killing his wife and son either way the family shrinks.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Fighting Iraq vs Iran
During the Iraq/Iran war the to oppossing sides used to different fighting styles. Iraq relied on forighn assistance in the form of jets and modern weapons to fight Iran. What Iran lacked in technology and weapondry it made up for in the number of men sent to the front lines. Irans stratedgy was to basically send over so many people that they overwelmed Iraq. These two fighting styles resulted in 500k casulaties for both sides throughout the war.
Iran/Iraq War = Modern WWI
Throughout the book the author refers to the war with Iraq. This war is considered by many to have been a modern WWI because of the trench warfare style. Since Iran and Iraq just sat on either side of an open nomans land filled with mines and other devices and took shots at eachother moving the battle lines back and forth.
Keys to Paradise
On page 99 Persepolis talks about how the young boys in Iran were each given a plastic "key to paradise". The reason the boys were given these keys was to symbolize there entrance to heaven by dying in Jihad. The war with Iraq had turned to trench warfare with each side shooting across an open mine field. To get through the mines Iran sent thousands of young boys across the minefield to clear out the mines. It is said not a single child made it across to the other side alive.
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