Forgotten Fire

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Summary: Forgotten Fire
Review: This was a very touching story that took place during the year 1915 and 1918. This story was about the Armerian holocaust and a Vhan Kenderian who struggles to survive during the saddest moment of his life. He loses brothers, they were shot in his back yard in front of him. His sister takes poisen because she doesn't want to be raped by the turkish soliders. He is left with his mom, sister, grandmother, and brother because his other brothers were killed and his uncle died fighting turkish soliders. His mom realizes that the turkish are getting rid of the boys and men first so she tells them to escape.Before he and his brother get a chance his grandmother is killed because she took a drink from a diry river and thats what the turkish wanted, so they killed her. Vahan and his brother escape that a few nights later, and when two turkish people are chaseing him and his brother get split up. He has no body left and doesn't know where to go so he goes to his best friends house.After a week his best friends mother makes him leave because the only reason the turks haven't killed her and her son is because she knew a police officer. He goes on to another city and a while later he is acting and speaking turkish, he becomes a begger. One day he spots just another body on the street and since there are a lot of bodys on the street he thinks nothing of it. But this person looks familar to him and it turns out to be his brother. He takes his brother to the abandon home that he now lived in and trys hard to keep his brother alive but his brother has a bad fever that wont go down so he dies... To find out more you have to read this book, it is so touching and teaches you a lesson about war and what the turkish did to 1.5 million Armerians.

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Summary: The Best Book!!!
Review: This was the absolute best book i have ever read. And one of the saddest too. It was so touching and heart-breaking. I could not put this book down, it was absalutally the most phenommenal. I recommend this book to everyone. this book will truely touch your heart.

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Summary: Great book
Review: Vahan is a brave boy! If I were him, I wouldn't been so sober to face my fate. I think I would die already! His unfortunate experience was sympathy by every people, including me. The deepest grievance he had was that he lost his family. From he was a wealthy, arrogant and ignorant twelve-year-old child to be a staunch, mature youngster. The process was so difficult but he could solve the problems one by one. So I'm admire him for his brave and cleverness.
One plot of the book had made me very depressed. Vahan had loved a girl, but before he expressed his adoration, the girl has been a pregnant. Although Vahan didn't care the behavior of the baby¡¦s father and was willing to take care of the girl and the baby, the girl was died and he couldn¡¦t own either the girl or the baby at all!
Being witness the family members and the people who were loved by him, were left him one by one. Vahan¡¦s heart has been attacked seriously. Even the adults couldn¡¦t endure those pains, Vahan was just a child! His experience let me one hand become more cherish my family, on the other hand let me more understand the negative effects of wars and the importance of peace.
The book is great! The changes of Vahan let people to make self-examination. While we are enjoying the things we possessed, we have to be concerned with others. I would recommend this book to all my friends.

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Summary: Neglected history
Review: Written as a novel, Bagdasarian's recounting of his great-uncle's survival compellingly informs the reader of the attempts to wipe out the Armenian population in Turkey during the latter part of World War I, a section of history usually missed in the school curriculum. Although written for young adults, it holds particular significance for all interested in "ethnic cleansing" and deadly religious warfare, issues that continue to plague the world in the 21st century.