A View From The Snipers Perspective

The snipers are deemed as the bad guys in this novel for the obvious reason that they are invading the city of Sarajevo. But, if we look at some of the examples in the book we can see that there are people behind the guns they are forced to wield. Majority of the snipers are cold blooded killers because they enjoy picking off innocent civilians for no reason what so ever but there was one particular instant with Arrow, and The Cellist that I found interesting. While The Cellist, was continuing with his 22 day tribute to the dead, an enemy sniper from the hill had the Cellist visibly through his scope and Arrow saw that, but the part that makes you realise not enemy soldiers want to be there is when you realise the sniper has no intention of killing the Cellist, is when Arrow, sees the sniper listening to the music The Cellist, is playing. Arrow was able to clearly line up a shot with the sniper and it left off with Arrow saying she did not want to take the shot but she knew she must. When looked at overall, you are able to understand that you should look past the uniform a soldier wears to grasp the person that soldier really is.