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Raffi Khatchadourian's A Century Of Silence

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Raffi Khatchadourian is the grandson of Hagop Khatchadourian, a seemingly lucky survivor of the Armenian genocide in 1915 Turkey. R. Khatchadourian is on a mission to discover how his grandfather survived and to update the world on the quiet, yet relevant goings-on in present-day Turkey. He documents his findings to share with the readers of The New Yorker in an article dubbed A Century of Silence. The piece struggles heavily with organization, and harmony, both of which are key ingredients to a page-turning article. The writing style is professionally historical, rich with facts attempting to enhance the story. Although the author, Katchadourian, uses extremely long sentences to describe the events. These do not strengthen the story and create the experience of reading a monotone speech. This in-turn, affects the expository tone, and mood of the article. The entirety of the article is filled with interlocking snippets of storytelling, and textbook writing, producing an extremely difficult harmony to comprehend. Formal structure is attempted throughout the article, by breaking the piece into four different chapters of sorts. This could have had a great positive impact on the article if Katchadourian had actually organized his writing itself into four different chapters. …show more content…

Katchadourian used the word “reëlected” just once. When googling the word, to confirm that is was in fact not a typo, I found that it is most commonly known for being used in articles from The New Yorker , and is the correct spelling for the word “re-elected”. Khatchadourian demonstrates the high-level of personal formality his article deserves, through phrases like, “...contradictory view of Kurds gained currency in Ankara,...” as well as “...got him far more signatories.” These gain him the respect of having a high level of

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