Hope In The Cellist Of Sarajevo And The Pianist

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One theme that is present in both the novel The Cellist of Sarajevo and the movie The Pianist is hope. Hope is shown in the novel in many ways: Kenan and the light bulb, Kenan and the water, and the Cellist playing his cello for the 22 dead. In the movie, hope is the biggest theme because of the fact that this is people living in WW2 under the control of the evil Nazi’s, more specifically Szpileman - who is a jew. During WW2 jews were cheated on by the Nazi’s for the fact that they are jews. They were treated like the lowest people in society, were killed in the most horrific ways, were starved and put to work like slaves. Jews were essentially the Nazi’s science mice. This is why in Szpileman’s case he was constantly in hiding from

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