The students had been reading other novels, not historical fiction,
but real-life fiction where they had been learning about characterization
and story structure; and this was just another genre that they were
practicing that in. After this unit, the students became interested
and involved in what was happening in Bosnia, Sarajevo, and their
current events areas, so they were bringing in newspaper articles
and looking at how the United States and other countries were involved
in that conflict that was happening today.
