The two books “Forgotten Fire” and “Because of Romek” are alike for many reasons. One reason is that the two novels both include a type of mass killings during the 1900’s. Another reason that the novels are alike is that they both are told in first person point of view. A third reason is that both stories are historical fiction and take place in the early 1900’s. The two novels are different for many reasons. For example, one is that “Forgotten fire” is about the Armenian genocide and “Because of Romek” is about the Jewish holocaust. The second reason is that each of the settings were taken place in different places. For example, “Forgotten Fire” is taken place in Turkey, but “Because of Romek” was taken place in Germany. The last reason is …show more content…
In reality though, the city is just like anywhere else. Vahan misses his family and wishes they were still with him, and he even visits graves thinking about them sometimes. In the end, Vahan is safe but his life is radically different than it once was. He's missed out on school and no longer has a family; the impact of the war rages on in his life. Vahan changes from static to dynamic because by the end of the novel, Vahan is fifteen years old, but he's aged more than three years. He's learned to be self-sufficient, take risks, and survive horrible things, plus he's seen haunting sights and misses his family a …show more content…
It's doubly hopeless, then, that no one is even around to light the streets or do the day-to-day things that keep a society running. Another quote from Vahan that proves this is “Whatever pretense of hope or optimism remained inside me had by now completely disappeared, and I reached in the dark for the first hand I found and held it tightly, not knowing or caring whose hand it was.” This proves that Vahan might say that his hope disappeared, but he still has hope to begin with. Some of his family have already been gunned down, while others are held prisoner with him, and yet he's still holding out hope for