Zlata Filipović

1. Title: Zlata’s Diary 2. Setting/Time Period(s): 1991-1993 3. Write a paragraph summary of the story. Zlata Filipovic is a young pre-teen living in Bosnia. She is an average girl that loves to play the piano, listens to MTV, and plays with her friends in her nearby park. All of that changes on March 1st 1992 when the Bosnian war breaks out in Zlata's home country. As a young girl, she never expected the war to reach her hometown of Sarajevo. When it did, she learnt the lesson of war- that people she love can die by a bullet or a bomb, life is harder without electricity or water, and that one of the most important things is family. As the war became harsher, she kept on writing in her journal which she named Mimmy, even after her school…

after the war. Reporters,TV crews, and maybe even celebrities would want to talk to you. This isn’t about me it’s about a girl named Zlata. Yes, this is a real thing not some fake thing you find on google. In the article, “Zlata’s Diary,” by Zlata Filipovic it states “ So, we turned a safe corner of the sitting room into a “bedroom.” This reveals that the bedrooms with windows or any place with windows were not safe. If people were shooting and it went through the window it would hit you. So,…

“The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war had nothing to do with humanity. War is inhumane.” (Filipovic, 1994, p. 33) Zlata Filipovic has been through more in just her childhood than most people will in their entire lives. No child should have to see what Zlata saw, live what Zlata lived. Witnessing this war was unimaginable until reading Zlata’s Diary. Zlata was only eleven years old when she started writing in her diary that documented her experiences during the Bosnian…

what we think we cannot overcome that we realize just how strong we really are.”-Anonymous. This quote reminds me of Há in “Inside Out & Back Again” by Thanhha Lai and Zlata from “Zlata’s Diary” by Zlata Filipovic. Há and Zlata are both wartime children who have struggled and fought through terrible times. Although they came from different places and have different stories, they share many of the same struggles along with many accomplishments. During their terrible times in war, they both…

In “Freedom Writers” many differences between the book and the movie are shown. But there are also some similarities. I will be comparing and contrasting some of the most important differences from the book and the movie. I’m going to be starting with the differences. I’m bad at writing openings, so the rest of the paragraphs are going to look longer than this one. One of the biggest differences in the movie is that instead of writing and meeting Zlata Filipović, they meet Miep Gies. This may…