Tolog Review: Forgotten Fire

Forgotten Fire
by Adam Bagdasarian
reviewed by Monica Ng

In this world, everyone is struggling for survival. Everybody hopes to live happily in the world, but not everyone can be like that. People in the world have to work hard that they can survive. Some people are not lucky, perhaps they may be very poor or they have disease and they have no money to remedy, they need to work twice as hard as other people because they want to live. If you are a person who always protect by other people, may be one day you must have to exercise and challenge yourself to understand how to survive in the outside world. 

The main character in Forgotten Fire is Vahan Kenderian, who is the twelve-year-old boy at the beginning of the story. The story is written in the first person narrative, so that the author and narrator seem to be the same. The story is mainly about the boy lived in a happy home; because he was the youngest child in the family, so the members in the family were really care of him and the boy also believed his real world would be harmonious forever. In 1915s, at that chaotic time, the boy met a huge transition in his life that he lost his home and family. Everything was change for him, his life just like fell from heaven to hell. His mother helped he escaped from the control of soldiers with his friend Sisak but at the same time, that was the last he saw his mother. They left; he wonder in different places and he also met many different people. 

He overcame lot of difficulties and experienced things by himself. Through these things, he learned how to survive in the world and he created a strong spirit and tenacious belief for himself.