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This safe haven wasn’t anything of how Vahan imagined it to be. Him having to hide his presence really puts the risk into perspective. Vahan had to be selfless for his friends family, so far throughout this novel he is put through very hard trials that are shaping his character into something bigger.

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This is the happiest ending that Vahan could get. He no longer has to run and hide from the Turks. He starts a new life and is a completely different person from the start of the book, far more mature and hard working. Best of all he is reunited with his sister.

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Vahan travels to a city by the sea seeking a ship to Constantinople. He meets a man who takes Vahan to his ship and Vahan gets put in a room with one other boy. On the four day journey at sea the two boys get very sea sick. Once arriving at their destination they walk around in awe and joy at finally being free. The two boys go to an orphanage to live and start school. Vahan is reunited with his sister Oskina.

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Most of the people in Vahan's life are now dead and the rest he can never see again for their own safety. He has been kicked out and forced to leave many homes. All of this is because of the Turks and this dead family is the last straw. Vahan can no longer stand living in Turkey and wants his freedom so he leaves one final time to escape the horrors the Turks put him through.

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Vahan's next hiding spot is a girls only orphanage.  Vahan is not a girl though so he has to wear a dress and pretend to be one.  During his short stay here he was forbidden from interacting with the girls so he could keep his cover.  He was soon adopted by a married couple looking for a servant but Vahan soon felt more like a son than a servant.  He also makes friends with a girl next store and they spend a lot of time together.  The girl ends up pregnant and is kicked out, so she moves in with Vahan.  The girls dies giving birth and Vahan's new mother dies from a stroke.  Not being able to stand living in an empty house he leaves to live in Constantinople.

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Once again Vahan finds a place to stay with people he likes but is forced to leave for the safety of those very people.  Vahan starts to realize that no matter where he hides in Turkey he won't be safe.   Also that if he stays hidden in one place to long the people hiding him could get hurt. Vahan is constantly having to move around to protect himself and those around him.

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After leaving the Turkish refugees Vahan runs into an Armenian copper smith named Ara.  Vahan enjoys his time with him because Ara reminds Vahan of his own family.  Vahan can not stay with Ara forever because if the Turks find out Ara is hiding Vahan they will both be killed.  Eventually Ara finds Vahan a safer place to live and sends him there.

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Every time Vahan believes he's safe or he can let his guard down he's reminded of everything he has gone through. The places Vahan seeks refuge in aren't his homes. As hard as it might be he can't get attached to people he meets. Vahan is never truly safe and he knows that which is why he has to keep on going.

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After Vahan leaves out of fear he's all on his own once again. As he felt like giving up he thought about his father and how strong he would be. Vahan explained how he felt like he lost control of his life ever since Tavel and Diran had been killed. When he comes across a refugee camp he accidentally gets identified as deaf and mute. For now Vahan is safe from the soliders. He had nightmares about how he would speak and he would be found out. For his safety he left once again.

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This is a big turning point in the novel. Selim Bey is a man who mercilessly murders Armenians, and now Vahan is told that he has to live with him and his men. Even stranger, they will be staying at Vahan's home, and he will have to stay in the stables.

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After Vahan's brother dies, he returns to live on the streets for a couple of weeks, begging and scavenging for any piece of food he could find. Eventually, he decides to go back to the Altoonian's home, who are kind enough to let Vahan stay there for 12 days. On the 11th day, Vahan is told that he will leave the next morning to go live with Selim Bey, a friend of his fathers who also happened to be a bloodthirsty Turk.

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In a way when Vahan and Sisak leave their family behind, they are saying goodbye to their old life, the odds of seeing their mother and sister again were slim to none. Sisak as the older brother is trying to keep him and Vahan alive, Vahan is very helpless and by himself he could get killed. When Sisak and him get split up Vahan found a safe haven at his school friends house Pattoo Altoonian. However his presence at the Altoonian house was a danger to the family. Vahan had no other choice but to stay hidden in a closet for everyone's safety.

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Sisak's death hit Vahan very hard as he was the older brother that was wise and that Vahan looked up to. He was already becoming hopeless, although after witnessing the only family member he had left slowly die, he returns to his mission of survival, although with little motivation even stating he wouldn't care if someone killed him at that moment. The author makes sure to demonstrate the toll that losing everything that matters has on someone. After huge losses it seems surviving isn't even worth it with no quality of life left.

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When forced to leave from Pattoo's home, as his mother was scared someone would find out he is Armenian and have them killed, Vahan when walking away runs into his brother who is dying of sickness. Even though there is nothing he can do Vahan tries to help slowly watching his elder brother die. At the end he stares at his body and walks away depressed and hopeless.

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Walking with the soldiers he witnessed more and more death. All Vahan knows about the soldiers his that they bring death to everyone around them. This kind of exposure left Vahan with the feeling that him and his family would meet their fate soon.

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This is the largest turning point so far in the novel. Even though there had been many large events, all taking a toll on Vahan, he had his mother and the remainder of his family. Now however, he has to go away without any parents or an elder to look up to for advice. It is a forced sense of independence that the author includes demonstrating the severity of the situation that will either result in survival or death.

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After Vahan leaves the hotel with his family still mourning the death of his older sister he still cannot come to terms with what his situation is. Vahan and his family never went without a meal let alone forced against their own will to walk hours without water or rest. This is something that Vahan could never imagine him and his family to be put through.

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Vahans mother, who after losing 3 children as well as her mother, grabs him and Sisak, begging them to leave as it will give them a better chance to live. Without much of a plan of where to go she reminds them not to look back and to keep on surviving.

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The rumors about the Armenian attacks spread quickly to the Kenderian's. Vahan and his family were always kept in a bubble and with no strong male figure in the house the family was accessible to the rumored dangers.

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The absence of Vahans father had already given him and his family an insecure mindset and adding onto that was Uncle Mumpreh getting sent to prison due to an accusation of him being a revolutionary. Him leaving made the Vahan and his family very vulnerable.

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Vahan seeing the girls being taken by soldiers and the people suffering warning others to protect their girls is a complete shift away from the stability and warm home he once knew. The poison represents a way out for many of the girls, escaping the torture they know is coming.

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The hotel was a horrible experience for Vahan seeing the starving people that were suffering at the hands of the soldiers as well as the fact he saw his grandma die. He also saw his sister commit suicide for fear of being raped and tortured by the soldiers

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This demonstrates what life was like before the genocide, emphasizing the horror and the impact the adversity later in the book will have on Vahan. It gives a base for the horror to be compared to, as well as the fact that Vahan is always remembered that this is the life he had before.

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This is the beginning of a horrible time period for all Armenians. Vahan's father getting taken marks the first event of many that will forever haunt anyone who makes it out alive.

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Vahan is a happy 12 year old child that lives in Bitlis. He is a wealthy child that has friends, family, and what seemed as a stable community.

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Police officers come to the Kenderian household and demanded the father to come with them to the government building.