Vahan Kenderian Character Analysis

Sarkis Kenderian is Vahan’s father and is the character that changes Vahan the most. Sarkis has always been Vahan’s role model, but when Sarkis is taken away by the gendarmes Vahan will never forget his father and how his father would want his son to be as strong as steel. These words of encouragement will haunt Vahan to where it will push him to find his own limits. Firstly Sarkis influenced Vahan to always push on even when he feels weak, this first occurs when Vahan and Sisak escape the march. After they escaped the march, they walk for miles non-stop in wet clothes to reach Sanis. Vahan is miserable on his journey to Sanis, but he pushes on and Vahan states that “I could no longer walk as myself, I pretend that I was my father … and my father’s will”(Bagdasarian 56). Vahan states shortly that “I wanted to stop, but my father didn’t”(56). These two quotes show how Vahan wants to give up, but because he is trying to pretend to be more like his father, he is pushing himself to his limits and not giving

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The protagonist Vahan Kenderian is a spoiled naive child who loses his family in the Armenian genocide and now he must go on his own journey that will last more than three years he will have been through more mental and physical pain than any other child his age. Vahan will encounter new people that will change his character for the better. Therefore, the three characters that Vahan meets and influences who he is the most is Sarkis Kenderian, Selim Bey and Seta.

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