Zabel Esayan went back and documented her first hand experiences of the remains from the Adana massacres. What she wrote was not only informational, but very moving, truthful, and powerful. The things she said about the city, people, and how the survivors acted after and during it was incredible.
The word choice that Esayan uses is very moving. When she talks about what is left of the city, the survivors, and how the survivors seem to act hits me in a way that is hard to describe. I have never gotten emotional reading passages or books before. While reading this, I could actually feel myself getting emotionally and physically attached. Esayan spent a lot of time going through and making sure whoever was to read this, was to be affected in a way that is for the better. When she talks about the city she says, “ the devastated city stretches outward like a boundless cemetery.” This exact passage hit me the hardest. It gave me the sense that people were actually murdered brutally and the city itself was left to rot with the remains of the Armenian people. …show more content…
There was so much brutality and inhumane things that one could not even begin to possibly try to understand what happened. I do believe that she explained what happened very well. She said it in a way that you could actually feel in a hypothetical way what the Armenians when through. There was a passage that she described about, “mothers had failed to recognize their children, and crippled, blind old people were left behind in houses that had been set ablaze. “. This truly put me into a spot where I had to set the reading down and actually take a break. Even though it was a short passage, it covered so much and had a truly inspiring and crazy impact on