Character Analysis Of Zahed In Ann Shin's My Enemy, My Brother

In war, humanity is stripped from the soldiers of war, this is seen as soldiers are shot at like they are just targets and not actual people. But in Ann Shin’s, “My Enemy, My Brother” viewers see the exact opposite, where an enemy Iranian helps an enemy Iraqi to save his life. In this story, the main character is Zahed or the Iranian and viewers see Zahed the many problems he encounters in his life. He faces these problems with his strong will to take control of his life, but viewers also find that he is a coward as he runs away from his problems. The first conflict that viewers see Zahed experience, is him verse his father; this is where he reveals his independence. Zahed faces constant abuse from his father according to the documentary, so
Viewers now see that Zahed is a brave person to be taking the risk of hiding an enemy soldier to keep him alive from his comrades on the Iran army. One of the longest and hardest conflicts that Zahed had to face was his depression; or himself. Zahed had fallen into a deep depression from knowing that his family thinks he is dead and had moved to a different province in Iran. Also, he had left his old life behind in Iran because he had moved to Canada to restart his life, but it was too much for him to handle, so he contemplates to commit suicide because he can't deal with his life any more, but then he finds Najah at VAST, where Najah saves him from suicide. Viewers find that Zahed is a coward to even think about killing himself to get away from his problems. In conclusion, viewers see in the news; statistics and numbers of deaths in war thinking that humanity must have been stripped from these soldiers for them to kill so many of each other, but in this story, viewers see that humanity is in the soldiers, but instead the pressure to kill or be killed is implemented onto the soldiers forcing them to kill each