Forgotten Fire
(Adam Bagdasarian)
Imagine that you are a wealthy child living the privileged life; and one day your father doesn?t come home? Vahan Kendarian is forced to become a man in that one moment. The setting is WWI (better known as the Great War) and genocide is being committed on thousands of Armenians. As a twelve year-old boy, what are you supposed to do?WWI? Armenians are being taken captive and killed by the hundreds. Rich and poor alike are forced from their homes to accommodate the German army and Vahan Kendarian is placed into the middle of it. Moving from place to place he discovers the turmoil that the War has caused. City streets are torn a part, his school is a temporary prison, and everything he thought that he new has changed.Twelve years of butlers and maids and in an instant, everything was gone. Vahan was forced to witness the brutality of the Turkish army and stand by as his father and uncle were forced to leave and his brothers were shot before his eyes. Bagdasarian (the author) wrote of how Vahan felt as if he were in a dream. Every moment was a thought of how things used to be, the life that he used to have? And from his point of view, the world was falling down and no one really cared. Vahan as a character changes from a boy to a man in a short three years. He goes from a spoiled child to a beggar thirsting for hope. Before the war, a beggar had approached him, and in disgust he turned away, near the end, he was that same beggar, watching as people turned their heads, afraid to associate with him at all. He discovered what it was like to suffer and struggle for just one meal a day.
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