Science Fiction Book Report: Catching Fire
During the Armenian genocide, which began in Turkey in 1915, the Ottoman government systematically murdered 1.5 million Armenians. In the historical novel, Forgotten Fire, by Adam Bagdasarian, the story of how young Vahan Kenderian survived the Armenian genocide is told. Twelve-year-old Vahan is forced to grow up at an alarming rate. He experiences tremendous loss and grief in a short span of time. Despite all of his troubles, Vahan is able to resist succumbing to his fears and never loses the hope that one day he will be safe again.
In Murry Taylor’s memoir titled Jumping Fire, Taylor takes readers to the Alaskan Wilderness where he and other firefighters parachute from planes to fight forest fires. These individuals are smokejumpers. Written from 1992 to 2000 the story documents a summer firefighting season in a diary style narrative. The author became an active smokejumper in 1965 and upon his retirement in 2000 was the oldest active smokejumper and the oldest to ever do the job. Taylor willingly jumped out of an airplane 355 times, with 200 being actually down to a burning fire.
Chapter One: I think it is interesting that Elie is so devoted to his religion, Judaism, at such a young age. As the chapter begins, Elie is 12 years old and already seeking experiences that are usually reserved for individuals over 30 years old. For example, he wants to find a master, someone to learn from, and he wishes to study mysticism.
Strength is essential in enduring a crisis. For most, true crisis is rare, but for a boy by the name of Vahan Kenderian, crisis has struck and it not will leave. Forgotten Fire, written by Adam Bagdasarian is a story about an adolescent Armenian boy who has everything taken away from him by the Armenian genocide. His family, wealth, and influence evaporates around him as the genocide progresses. He is alone and must fend for himself among people who hate his kind.
Not many people could escape the Armenian Genocide, especially on their own at age 14 after the rest of their family had been kidnapped or killed in front of their eyes. But Vahan Kenderian did in Forgotten Fire, by Adam Bagdasarian, a historical novel, the main character Vahan goes from being a child to a man throughout the story. Nothing in life can be taken for granted because it could be gone in a second. The main character, Vahan, had a very good life before the genocide, a top class house and a family that cared for him and loved him and was rather wealthy, but he learns how quickly that can all disappear.
In the novel Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian, Vahan Kenderian witnessed his world fall apart around him. First, his wise and disciplinary Father is taken away and never heard from again, then his two oldest brothers are shot in front of his eyes. Finally, he is taken away from his home and taken to a dilapidated inn. After he and his brother run away, he is forced to travel across Turkey with nowhere to go. Without his father’s wise words, he is forced to repeat that it all will build character and make him stronger.
Throughout Zac Unger’s memoir Working Fire the Making of a Fireman he struggles to find a place within the fire station and among coworkers. Unlike many of the fellow recruits who spent years preparing to become a firefighter, Unger an Ivy League grad simply responded to a bus stop ad. After realizing that most recruits were either former military, tradesmen or other firefighter’s kids Unger “Mostly I just stayed quite, tried to down play my existence. I figured if I could just make it through the academy without being called out as a fraud, I’d end up a firefighter like the rest of them”(Unger, 22-23). This distinction between Unger and the rest of the recruits was seen as something to be ashamed of, something to hide away.
The novel, Fahrenheit 451, presents a future society where books are prohibited and the firemen burn any that are. The title is the temperature at which books burn. It was written by Ray Bradbury and first published in October 1953. In this novel, protagonist Montag changes his understanding in various aspects such as love or his human relationship throughout the book. However, among all of these, fire – the main theme of this novel – has the most significance as it also changes his understanding of knowledge from books.
Over hundreds of thousands of books were burned by the Nazis. The books were burned because they were filled with knowledge and ideas that would spread to people causing the Nazis to lose their perfect society. In the novel, the government burned books because reading creates independent thinking and they wanted the citizens to be ignored, so they could control them without fear of a rebellion. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury symbolism is used to evoke strong meaning throughout the novel. Objects such as the phoenix, salamander, and fire are powerful symbols that occur throughout the novel.
Fire in Fahrenheit 451 Four hundred and fifty one degrees fahrenheit is the temperature in which books burn. This novel, written by Ray Bradbury, is centered around a firefighter, Guy Montag, that starts fires instead of extinguishing them. Montag’s job is to burn books that are seen as a threat to society. But, as the novel depicts, Montag learns the truth of the society he lives in and what the actual threat might be. Besides the fact that it takes fire to burn objects, fire is repeatedly mentioned in the novel as a symbol that goes hand in hand with Montag’s view on the use and meaning of fire.
Throughout the course of humanity, fire has always been an essential source of survival. Due to its impact on human history, over the years, it has been interpreted by a variety of cultures in many different ways. In literature, since fire is considered a tangible object, it is often used to embody an intricate concept or idea. Ray Bradbury incorporates the literary technique of symbolism in the novel, Fahrenheit 451, in order to illustrate the significance of fire in a dark and empty dystopia where ignorance is a societal norm. In this corrupt society, the presence of fire is crucial because it represents the concepts of destruction and authority, enlightenment and reformation, and warmth and relief.
Another tool that encourages the reader to continue reading is the mystery. In the mystery, neither the reader nor the protagonist (a detective, a police officer, or an ordinary person) knows who is responsible for a crime, a murder, a robbery, who is the traitor in a group, and so on (Alfred 1). The reader wants to continue reading to find out with the protagonist the identity of that person. Alfred Hitchcock contrasts the mystery with the suspense: "The mystery is an intellectual process as in a 'who done it,' but the suspense is essentially an emotional process. " The mystery is an intellectual process because in it there is a question about an element of the past that does not represent a direct or immediate threat to the protagonist and therefore does not generate an emotion as clear as that of suspense.
Long time ago Canada was a land, people came to this land together from different foreign countries to create a multicultural country-Canada, but nowadays people named this status called immigration and the people who come from different countries called immigrants. According to “Canadian Immigration Acts”, since 1869 the first Immigration policy started until now up to hundred and fifty years of history there are 36,750,000 immigrants in total were living in Canada, which means over 250,000 new immigrants coming to Canada every year, 684 per day and 28 per hour. (“Immigration Watch Canada”) Undoubtedly immigrants have a huge cultural effect, people of different cultures get together to make the highest potential, it also impacts Canada politicize
On the other hand, there is Capitol who has political control in the nation of panem. The story starts when each district must offer a male and female between the ages of 12-18 at a public reaping as a penance for their uprising. The tributes which are male and female shall be delivered to the Capitol and then transferred to a public arena where they will fight with other district until a lone victor remains. This tradition called the hunger games. The story centers was coming from poor district 12 where Katniss and Peeta as their tributes.
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a story about Katniss Everdeen who lives in district 12 with her mom and her sister Prim. Her sister gets picked for the Hunger Games which is where each of the 12 districts have to give a boy and a girl from the ages of 12-18 do fight till the death until there is one person standing. This is because there was an outbreak against the capitals thats why there is the Hunger Games. Katniss volunteers do her sister and now has to try and win the games. One theme in this story that is shown is that family love can go along way, this is shown because she is very overprotective of Prim.
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