To begin with, Marsha reveals that hope in the face of love can help a person overcome strenuousness situation in this novel. The protagonist Kevork, is doing the American’s a favour, but in re-turn he wants to know if the girl that he loves is still alive. Kevork writes a note through a telegram to a potential location his love would be in. A lady gives Kevork a pen to write the message down, and after writing the message, “Kevork sets the pen down on the table and then leaned back in the chair. It was simple message, but those twenty words held his life in balance”(Skrypuch 70). Kevork and his love Martha have been separated because of the genocide that is progressing in Turkey. The conflict caused Marta and Kevork to split apart in order
…show more content…
The soldier knows that Turkish genocide is bad, and killing the Armenians, and making them suffer is unethical, so he agrees with Kevork and helps the Armenians, but a man has to put food on his table, which explain why he is soldier “fighting” for a bad cause. In this quote the hope is survival, and doing what is just. The soldier and Kevork both have the same hope, they both hope the Armenians survive, and they risk their life to make the hope reality. Hope affecting a person's mood is also discussed in this novel. Marta has almost escaped the genocide, but her husbands wants her to stay alive, so he says “I’m taking you back to the Germans, said Idris(Marta’s husband), to that orphanage. Marta’s heart nearly burst with excitement”(Skrypuch 15). Marta was from the orphanage that Idris wants to send her to. When Marta was in the Orphan living in that orphanage, she had all of her friends, her Sister, and her true love Kevork. When she is told that she is being sent to that orphanage Marta has the hope of her going back to her old life, and being united again. The orphanage symbolize Marta old perfect life, and her being united with her family, and
The soldier knows that Turkish genocide is bad, and killing the Armenians, and making them suffer is unethical, so he agrees with Kevork and helps the Armenians, but a man has to put food on his table, which explain why he is soldier “fighting” for a bad cause. In this quote the hope is survival, and doing what is just. The soldier and Kevork both have the same hope, they both hope the Armenians survive, and they risk their life to make the hope reality. Hope affecting a person's mood is also discussed in this novel. Marta has almost escaped the genocide, but her husbands wants her to stay alive, so he says “I’m taking you back to the Germans, said Idris(Marta’s husband), to that orphanage. Marta’s heart nearly burst with excitement”(Skrypuch 15). Marta was from the orphanage that Idris wants to send her to. When Marta was in the Orphan living in that orphanage, she had all of her friends, her Sister, and her true love Kevork. When she is told that she is being sent to that orphanage Marta has the hope of her going back to her old life, and being united again. The orphanage symbolize Marta old perfect life, and her being united with her family, and