Thursday, October 25, 2012

Genocide Experience Blog

Cristina Vilches
October 25, 2012
Period 3
Write a couple sentences describing this person, including his or her name and what the person looks like, what they've included about their past, etc.

·         Her name is Kristine Hagopian and she looks very old with a bump on her nose and her face tilted right and down but her eyes are pointing up. This tells me that she wants to look down but she can’t, she just can’t. Her story is about how her father was sexually assaulted by some Turkish soldiers and how her family was forced to watch. This led to her father’s eventual suicide.

·         His name is Sam Kadorian. He is very old He is looking up with partially open eyes and a furrowed brow. His mouth is open like he is trying to whisper something. His story is about how some Turkish gendarmes hurt him in the neck and piled dead bodies on him but how he couldn't cry out or he would die.

-Speculate as to what the person might be feeling based on their picture and their story.

·         I think she is feel the fear and anger and remorse of that moment, that she is remembering the pain and wants to look away, but it is not now, it is in the present so she won’t look away. She looks worn and yet her eyes say how very passionate she can still be and how vigilant she is.

·         His face says how he remembers pain the pain he was in. He looks like he is a child looking at their parents after something bad has happened, like at any moment he might break down and cry. He seems like he is trying to say something but he can not. He looks lost in the dark. Frightened. 

-Finally, imagine and write about what you think may have happened to this person after the story he/she tells, what questions does he/she leave unanswered? Use contextual clues from his or her picture to help you speculate (i.e. do they have anything that distinguishes their previous occupation? Are their hands folded in a certain way?)

·         She escaped and didn't get killed because she is alive as says that she escaped with her family but her father died. She has fancy clothes or rather a pattern on her clothing so she might be very well off now.

·         He probably got saved or he might have escaped the country but he was not killed, his grandmother might have though.

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