“Where’s the lighter at”, Connor said with a worried tone. “I don’t know, I thought I left it on the picnic table” Dan said while pointing at the table with nothing but a fishing pole on it. I said, “did you drop it in the fire?” laughing a little. Dan replied with, “No, do you really think that I’m that stupid”. We sat there wondering where it was while sitting by the lake around the fire, it was a chilly night so I scooted my chair a foot away from the fire. Little did I know what was going to happen next. I had goosebumps on my arms and there was fog on the lake without a boat in sight. Dan said, “ I’m going to put more wood on the fire” and got up and went over to the tractor to get more pieces. Connor started getting worried because …show more content…
As I sat down next to the fire I smelt something, it wasn’t wood but I didn’t think anything of it. It was so cold out that I was sitting about a foot away from the fire but at least the fire was still thriving. I looked around and it looked like Connor and Dan also started to smell it, they looked like they were very interested in the smell. Then Dan said, “it smells like burning plastic”. And then it happened, it all flashed before my eyes and the next thing I knew was the small explosion’s radius was enough to go past me. It was like a car flashing their brights right into your eyes, it was bright and happened so fast. I had no clue what was going on and then I realised, the lighter actually was in the fire. I couldn’t help but laugh at the situation because the explosion was so cool despite almost having my shirt catch on fire. Whenever there’s a time that I’m at risk I just laugh, I guess that I just think it’s just funny almost dying sometimes. I looked over at Dan and all he did was laugh and say, “I guess I am stupid”. Me and Dan were both laughing away but Connor didn’t like that, he hated that we could have almost died and said, “why do you think that’s funny?”. I just replied with, “I guess it’s just the Irony of what
Imagine losing your whole family in one week, now imagine half of a population being wiped out. Armenian genocide killed half the population between the years 1915 and 1917. People were taken from their homes, imprisoned, and killed. The book Forgotten Fire, written by Adam Bagdasarian, is about a 13-year-old Armenian boy who survives the genocide. Vahan embarked on a long tough journey to get to safety in Constantinople where he would be free from the Turkish government.
had to wear some old shoes that he had at home. Gold did not like this
Vahan and his family are caught in the middle of the Armenian Genocide. In the book, Forgotten Fire, by Adam Bagdasarian, Sarkis Kendrian is a well respected Armenian mandarin of the city of Bitlis with several children and very little to worry about. That, of course, was until the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. Just after the beginning of it, multiple military personnel showed up at the front door of the home of Sarkis. They said he was wanted by the government and even though he knew that was not true he went with it. He, along with many other men from his town, were taken into the streets where they were killed. Shortly after, two of Vahan’s older brothers were taken behind the house and killed as well. This left the mother, Vahan, and his sisters and brother on their own as they were taken by the military along with many other members
In A World Lit Only By Fire, William Manchester explains why he started to write this book, when he began writing due to an illness, and how he was too weak to move but not to write. Manchester had decided to branch out from his usual american history book, and begun to write about Magellan, a european explorer, inspired by other explorers like columbus and navigational, Vasco da gama. and the ¨portrait of age surrounding him”. Though Manchester only uses secondary sources to complete this book, it reviews the religion, education, exploration, and the philosophy of the 16th century. Manchester also describes the poverty, corruption, and violence of the dark ages. And finally, Manchester tells of how the reform acts as a hero of the time, bringing hope and prosperity to the middle ages.
“Words of Fire,” by Anthony Collings, details the lives of different journalists in regards to free press and covering potentially dangerous stories. Anthony Collings is a former CNN reporter who shifted his focus from reporting to telling the story of journalists who have come under fire in a power struggle between government and free press. Collings puts free press into a spectrum, on one side there is the United States, where the press is largely free, and on the other side there are places like North Korea or China where press is largely restricted by the government. Collings does not focus on these extremes, but rather the places in the middle where there is an ongoing struggle between state power.
Forgotten Fire is a novel written by Adam Bagdasarian. Bagdasarian wrote Forgotten Fire in 2000. Bagdasarian is considered a great youth author. “Adam Bagdasarian is an Armenian American writer for teenagers and young adults. His first novel, Forgotten Fire, became a National Book Award Finalist ” (Goodreads, 2017). Bagdasarian wrote this book for the readers to understand what it was like for Armenian people in Europe in 1900. Forgotten Fire is a tragedy filled non-fiction novel based off the true story of Vahridj Kenderian travels through the Armenian holocaust.
19. Magellan's discovery of the Philippines was significant because it proved the world was round.
In the book Forgotten Fire by Adam Bagdasarian, Vahan and his untroubled and carefree life is flipped upside down when some Gendarmes kill both of his older brother right in front of him. All of Vahan’s race are being killed and Vahan has to go off and leave his mother with his brother Sisak and start their own new life on the run. Vahan quickly realizes life if much different without everything being given to you. Vahan’s father, Sarkis, and his brother Sisak taught Vahan to push through the hard times, always have hope, and to stay strong. With the advice given to Vahan by his father and brother, Vahan was able to gain strength and courage to push through the hard times, even when everything seemed hopeless and unbearable.
The dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 written by author Ray Bradbury in 1953, shows what he speculates the fate of society to be. Fahrenheit 451 takes places in the corrupt United States when people no longer read books and are satisfied only by entertainment. In Fahrenheit 451, the fire has been perceived in many different ways by the main character Guy Montag, once a fireman. Fire in Fahrenheit 451 represents both rebirth and destruction. Mythological creatures, such as the salamander and Phoenix have influenced the change in the perception of fire.
The title Chaos stands for Care, Health, Avoidance, Opposing, Safety of People. To being with the inspiration piece for this paper is the documentary movie title Escape Fire, which was produced by Matthew Heinemann and Susan Froemke. The video is based on results from before and during 2012. This allowed for one to wonder how this can apply to present day health care. It is easy to understand it is very expensive even just for a healthy meal let alone purchasing health insurance for someone's wellbeing.
As the fireman, Guy Montag, from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury changes his view on the world, his view on fire changes as well. Throughout the book he encounters many different people who each change him in different ways. Some people convince him that fire is great because of its destruction. It burns away the things that make people unhappy, and changes things. However, as his journey continues, he begins to see fire as an escape. By the end of the book, he realizes that fire does not just take and destroy, but it gives.
In the book A World Lit Only by Fire, the author, William Manchester, describes the period of time between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the start of the Renaissance known as the medieval period, or Middle Ages. The church had the most power in Europe and people struggled with surviving events such as epidemics. Consequently people had very short lives that may have not served them well. Every person in Europe during this time would eventually hear, “Bring out your dead!” as the gravediggers’ carts rolled down the street each night after an outbreak of the Bubonic Plague. Life during the medieval period was brutal and harsh with everything from church domination and the constant warring over political power to diseases and
This is a very important part of the book because it shows the reader that the
In James Baldwin’s collection of essays in The Fire Next Time he expresses a call to action for Americans to abandon the belief that skin color separates people from one another and to unite together as a whole country. In the essays, he identifies religion as the source for this disillusioned belief that the whites’ skin makes them inherently better than African Americans merely because of their skin color. In participating in the Christian religion, he learns that the teachings to love one another go unpracticed towards those with a different skin color or of another religion. While religion benefits its members by preventing people from falling into the life of crime that prevails in the ghetto, its influence causes the members to develop
Fire is a symbol that cannot be described in one word. Fire represents destruction, death, hostility, unpredictability, and the potential for limitless violence. Fire, however, also has a good side to it. Fire can be health, hospitality, control, food, shelter, light, and strength. With these characteristics in mind, fire has a number of different connotations. Many of these connotations can be found in one book. Fire, in William Golding’s book, Lord of the Flies, is a complex symbol, representing anarchy and the darkness inside of us, civilization and the light in all of us, and hope, the constant motivator for our survival.