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Theme Of Forgotten Fire By Adam Bagdasarian

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How would a 12 year old boy who watched his family die around him be able to escape the extermination of his kind? The novel Forgotten Fire is a compelling historical fiction book written by Adam Bagdasarian. This book follows the journey of Vahan Kenderian as he tries to survive the Armenian genocide. Vahan watches the world he knew collapse around him as he watches those he grew to care about leave him, by death or not. During his time the young boy meets many people that affect him for the rest of his life. Vahan develops his character through the people he meets during his journey, becoming the son his parents had envisioned. Vahan’s father, Sarkis Kendarian, is the first character we see to have a major impact on Vahan. When Vahan and his brother, Sisak, escape Goryan’s Inn they begin the long …show more content…

Tashian’s house. The two become close friends and spend most of their days together and Vahan soon realizes the Consul takes advantage of her every night. Seta soon finds out she is pregnant and the consul throws her out because he does not want a baby, leaving her on the streets. Vahan and Dr. Tashian take her in and take care of her, yet she continues to help around the house despite what everyone tells her because she wants to be strong. Seta wants to name the baby after her father because she wants them to strong just like he was. “She told me one night that she was going to name the baby Krikor, after her father. “How do you know it's going to be a boy?” “My mother knew I was going to be a girl, and this baby is going to be a boy” (223). After having the baby seta has a fever and later dies while the consul takes away the baby. After Sata's death Vahan becomes extremely sad and decides to leave the sad memories of his home. Seta teaches Vahan that in life he has to be emotionally strong along with physically strong to deal with terrible things life gives certain

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Some people argue that the book, “Forgotten Fire” by Adam Bagdasarian is a book of historical fiction. It is also a novel. A novel is a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism. So to some extent there are some fictional parts to the book. But that does not take away from the fact that these actions took place, and that REAL people like Vahan and his family.

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