Summary Of Safe Area Gorazde

Joe Sacco presents the tragic story of Bosnian genocide, which took place between 1992 -1995, by telling the story through the unordinary way. Safe Area Gorazde is a journalistic comic book, which intensifies and strengths the emotions shown throughout the book. Because of book’s style, reader is able to see the different perspectives and points of views of every character. The author does this by making each character tells their individual and touching story. They tell how the war changed and shaped their lifestyles and most importantly their friendships. Bosnian people lost faith, because people they lived with became their enemies. They were losing their friends, homes, everything that was important for them. Losing friends is even worse

Agony can be felt because of many reasons, but the one which is the most hurting is losing a friend. But in a metaphorical way. In Safe Area Gorazde, Bosnian people lost their Serb friends, who became enemies. “Ex” neighbors if it’s possible to call them like that, became soldiers who stole things from houses, killed and tortured the people they grow up with. Throughout the book, every character tries to find their individual ways to forget the reality of war, losing friends, losing hope and

As it is shown in Safe Area Gorazde people have faith in The Blue Road. They believe in a miracle, which will happen once and they will leave Gorazde “not by foot and over mountains through enemy minefields, but by road- the Blue Road, the U.N route to Gorazde” (pg57) The possibility of leaving the war and living peaceful live was unbelievable, but then there was the Blue Road, which one more time intensified the foolish thought, because only military and journalists were able to travel the road, everyone in Gorazde was crazy