| Romeo and Juliet | Similarities | Admira and Bosko |
| They lived in Verona, Italy. | In both stories the couples fell in love at sight. | Their story takes place in Sarajevo. |
| Their parents did not promote their love. | They had to hide their love in order to survive. | Their parents embraced their love. |
| Their love was hidden. | They tried to flee from their homelands in order to maintain their love. | Admira was Muslim and Bosko was Serbian. |
| Romeo was seventeen when he fell in love with Juliet, who was thirteen. | They were both willing to risk their lives for love. | Admira and Bosko were both twenty-five when they fell in love. |
| Romeo and Juliet got married. | They died in each others arm, fully devoted to one another. | Backgrounds were conflicting and led to their death. |
| Romeo was a Montegue and Juliet was a Capulet. Their families hated each other. | Romeo and Juliet's story, and Admira and Bosko's story, are tragic tales of love, passion, and death. | They were shot and killed on a bridge in Sarajevo. |
| The families and their hate led to their death. | Had trouble seening each other because their love wasn't well liked by the community. | They knew each other for along time. |
1991- Admira Ismic receives letters from Bosko describing his whereabouts and involvements in the Serbian War.
"Now, good sweet nurse- O Lord, why/lookest thou sad?/Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily." -Romeo and Juliet
1992- Serbain attacks first began
"...And, if we meet, we shall not 'scape a brawl,/ For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring." -Romeo and Juliet
August,1992- Rada, Boskos mother, goes to Cleo one night after Bosko almost gets killed by a artillery shell.
"He jests at scars that never felt a wound..." -Romeo and Juliet
August 23, 1992- Rada goes to Cleo and begs him to help her.
"I'll tell thee ere thou ask it me again." -Romeo and Juliet
April 5, 1992- Serbs filled the street to support multiple independent states.
"Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,/Profaners of this neighbor-stained steel-/Will they not bear.../On pain of torture from those bloody hands/Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground." -Romeo and Juliet
November 16, 1993- Admira and Bosko have to meet in secret at Bosko's house to discuss their plans for escape.
" That I shall say good night till it be morrow"-Romeo and Juliet
May, 1993- Admira Ismic and Bosko Brkic, seeking safety, decide to flee the besieged city of Sarajevo.
"...immediately we do exile him hence." -Romeo and Juliet
May 19, 1993- While crossing a bridge leading out of Sarajevo, during a cease fire, Admira Ismic and Bosko Brkic are shot down by snipers.
"Where be these enemies... See what a scourge is laid upon your hate," -Romeo and Juliet
July 1995- Serb forces launched attacks on the UN safe areas in eastern Bosnia. This forced thousands of Muslims froms their homes.
"Wash they his wounds with tears? Mine shall be spent,/When theirs are dry, for Romeo's banishment." -Romeo and Juliet
August, 1995- Shells launched from Serb positions landed in a marketplace in Sarajevo killing 85 people.
Admira and Bosko lay dead
"O noble Prince, I can discover all/ The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl." -Romeo and Juliet
