summer withhout a dawn
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The History of the Armenian Genocide and its portrayal in A Summer Without Dawn
On the morning of April 24, 1915, a woman was taken from her home without food or drink was herded through a desert extremely exhausted, the woman fell and instead of receiving help, she was slashed by a Turkish sword. The Armenian Genocide began when three Turkish tyrants, Talaat, Enver, and Jemal overthrew the Sultan's government and came to dictatorial power in the Ottoman Empire (5). At the start of WWI the Turks decided to annihilate any outsiders living within their country, the majority of whom were Armenians (5). A Summer Without Dawn incorporates facts of the Armenian Genocide while displaying an ultimate yarn about one family's will to survive. In the haunting novel A Summer Without Dawn, Agop J. Hacikyan and Jean-Yves Soucy realistically portray the Balian family's struggle through the Armenian Genocide, one of the darkest yet most unknown tragedies of the world.
Beginning in the early 1800's, the Ottoman Empire started to separate into different ethnic groups: the Armenians became a prominent Christian minority and were known to have their own unique culture that existed for over 3,000 years (6). King Tiridates developed Christianity as a main religion in Armenia in 301 A.D and the first Christian Cathedral, Etchmiadzin, was built between 301 and 303. Christ himself was said to have struck the valley with a golden hammer, giving to the Armenians the location of the church...