Lions and The people of Baghdad

Throughout the book Pride of Baghdad I viewed the lions as the people who lived there, not as lions. In the story the obstacles that the lions had to under go seemed for me to be obstacles that the Iraqis undertake everyday during this war. When the bomb hit the zoo it destroyed the lions home and their safety. The people of Iraq go through that on a daily basis. While the bombs were not intended to hit the civilians of Iraq it's kind of hard to exactly determine where a bomb is going to hit. Once their homes are destroyed the people are forced to go out into a desolate city and try ad find a new place to live and a new way to survive..... just like the lions. 

While it might not have been the purpose of the authors to make the lions and the people of Baghdad be the same, it's kind of hard not to look at them as the same.