The characters of the book The Cellist of Sarajevo were all heroes. A hero is any ordinary, mundane individual who is selfless in bad situations, and is willing to put their life on the line so that another human might live to see another day. A hero is a leader and a role model to the people around them. Arrow’s courage establishes the basis of her heroism, while Kenan’s care towards his family and friends make him deserving of his title of a brave man. It is Dragan’s selfless actions identify him as a champion. Kenan, with his The characters of the book The Cellist of Sarajevo, Arrow, Kenan, and Dargan, were all regular humans who were trying to save Sarajevo, and its people through their brave actions and words. Through bravery, and boldness…show more content… Everyday Dragan when he goes to work he puts his life at risk when crossing the road, because there are enemy snipers that may shoot him. One day, as he is walking to his job multiple events take place, and he finds himself near a dead body that is about to be broadcasted on the news; he realizes that if this body would be broadcasted on the evening news people would not care very much about it, “Dragan reaches the body of the hatless man. The soles of his shoes stick and slip in his blood. He reaches down and grabs one of his hands, lifeless and still warm… He thinks it should, knows that normally such gore would horrify him. But it isn’t important. All that matters is getting the body off the street. Something slams into the body in front of him with a flat thump. A rifle cracks. The sniper has fired, missed him by less than half a metre. Dragan grabs the hatless man’s other hand and tries to get to his feet.” (Galloway 235) Dargan puts himself in danger by dragging the body to the other side of the crossing, even though this makes him vulnerable to getting shot by a sniper. He does this because he doesn’t want the dead body to lay abandoned and forgotten forever; he does what he can to stop things from worsening. Moreover, after that incident h decides to cross the intersection, “He wont let the men on the hills stop him. These are his streets, and he’ll walk them as he sees it.” (Galloway 248) At the hardest of times, Dargan seems to develop the ability to find strength in the face of pain and grief. For him, Sarajevo and its people are not yet destroyed and he will do what ever he can to slowly rebuild it, so that it does not fade away. Finally, when Dargan is restarting his journey to work he feels a small bottle of pills in his pocket; they belonged to Emina, his friend’s wife, and she was delivering them to someone before she got shot and was
