“There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history” (Lovelock). Genocides have happen many times through out history. In 1915, leaders of the Turkish government made a plan to kill Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. By the early 1920s when the genocide finally ended, about 1.5 million of Turkey’s Armenians were dead with many more kicked out of the country. In the book of Forgotten Fire there is a young boy called Vahan that used to live in a lavish life style with his family. Then the Armenian Genocide started and then Vahan had to run from the people that were trying to kill him and his family. Vahan survived the Armenian Genocide by going from place to place. Vahan has changed socially, physically, and emotionally during his journey through the Armenian Genocide.…show more content… Before the genocide, Vahan was the youngest in the family and did not have to worry about being lonely. When he lost his family, he began to live on his own. After a few months of living alone a man gave him food and a place to sleep but left him in a stable with only a few blankets and said “…I saw no one. Each day arrived with a sixteen or seventeen hour burden of time…” (Bagdasarian 130). By having no one to talk to conveys how socially depressed he is with no help. After a week of this made him crazy and does not trust any one and can only watch his back to protect himself. He has been defending him self for the last few months and he came from someone who was in the high class life to a beggar left to fend for him self. Vahan has change socially so much that he can’t trust any one even if they used to be good
