Assignment

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Identify and explain what you consider to be the most significant event in this section. Be sure to include why you consider this event to be the most significant in this section.

In chapter 14, Vahan had been so lonely staying in the closet all day that he walked out the streets where all the Turks walked around openly. He explains that he was afraid to be lonely. When he stepped outside, he said that it was the first time being outside a front door since eight days. When he was just walking outside, having no destinations in mind, he found piles of body lying in the ground. He went closer to it to examine it closely, and found that one of the bodies was of Sisak, his brother whom he had lost while running away from the soldiers.
Sisak had his eyes half closed, his skin dry and white as sand. He did not even look like Sisak; he looked like any other dead that were lying in the streets of Armenia. Sisak was half unconscientiously and was obviously dying. Then Vahan took Sisak to a house and gave him water, and hoped and prayed for him to live, but in vain. Sisak finally died, living Vahan alone and frightened in a place where no man of his race was safe.
I think that this is the most significant event in this section. Through the whole book, Vahan grows up from a small child to a mature adult. In this coming of the age story, I think the most important part was this. Vahan actually realized that his own family, his protector, his brother had died right in front of his eyes, which meant that he could die any moment as well. In this part of the story, I think Vahan finally realizes how vulnerable he was, and how unprotected he was. He has seen his own brother die right in front of him, and he could not do anything; he has realized that something is meant to happen and you cannot do anything to change it. I think that this is the most important part of this section because this is the time when Vahan touches maturity.