THE FIVE STAGES OF GENOCIDE WE SAW MOST THROUGHOUT FORGOTTEN FIRE AND THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE:
Classification
In Forgotten Fire, people are classified either by Turks or Armenians. From the main character, Vahan's point of view, the Turks are the enemy and the Armenians are the innocent.
Dehumanization
Throughout the book Vahan and his family are told that they do not deserve to live. Their rights, homes, and the simple ability to survive is taken away from them. Dehumanization occurs during most of the story because the whole time Armenian's don't get treated the way they should. In parts of the book Vahan lives and works with many different Turks. Some treat Vahan a lot better than others. For example some of the people Vahan worked for made him work all day in a stable with no to little food or water, when others made him work and gave him food. The times when Vahan got the food seemed amazing to him, but this still is dehumanization, Vahan was still being treated like a slave.
organization
Organization of the Genocide isn't talked about a lot in the book because it is narrated by an Armenian's point of view. It is still obvious that there was a lot of it just from reading the events happening in the story. Turks removing Armenian's from their houses and sending them to different places to go on death marches couldn't have just happened with no type of plan. Therefore even though organization the genocide was not mentioned very much in the book the events in the book prove that there had to be organization.
EXTERMInation
Of course in Forgotten Fire we saw a lot of the Extermination stage. The Turkish government and soldiers exterminated Armenian's by starving them, and sending them on death marches in the scorching hot sun leaving them to die. Armenian's who would not do as told were shot, kidnapped, beaten, raped, etc. So much was done in this genocide to exterminate. The book shows the Extermination Stage more than any other.
denial
Forgotten Fire definitely shows denial. Even now, the Genocide is still denied by many Turks. Turks state that this never happened, and even made it illegal to talk about. In a section towards the end of the book, Vahan had to pretend to be a Turk in order to save his life. While he was on this journey he heard Turks say so much. None of the turks he encountered said anything about the Genocide being wrong, they all went a long with it. During the genocide when Armenian's protested, Turks denied doing anything wrong and said they were doing what was best and what they had to do. Denial was an enormous part of the Armenian Genocide, and still is.