At the conclusion of the novel Forgotten Fire, Vahan says, “I knew that I was free, and that I would never be free” (270). Vahan’s world was turned upside down when he was twelve and even though he was “free” three years later, his life would never be the same. Vahan would never be mentally free because his memories of the genocide would never go away and he would have to live with the idea that it could happen again The atrocities that Vahan endured were innumerable and they forced him to grow up faster than expected. Vahan intended to live forever in his warm home with servants and endless love from his large family . Then a reality of death and hatred of Armenians began in Turkey. His father was taken away by two gendarmes and killed
