“At that moment, a woman carrying a cloth sack stepped out of the bakery. Without allowing myself a second to reflect on what I was about to do, I started toward her, bowing my head a little so that she could not see my face; For several weeks, I jostled and pleaded for food, ran from those who would not give to those who might” (Adam Bagdasarian, 2000, pg. 105) This is an example of dehumanization because the Turks put Vahan in such a bad situation that he became a beggar, the lowest of the low in his country.
“When the sun barely touched the tops of the trees, we were led off the road to a flat place by the River Tigris. It was the same river Sisak and Oskina and I had swum in the year before, and it was congested with thousands of corpses.”(Adam Bagdasarian, 2000, pg. 47) This is an example of extermination because the corpses were of other Armenians that were killed by gendarmes and Turkish soldiers.
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