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=EXPOSITION/INCITING INCIDENT= Hello, my name is Zaki. I am a sixty-eight year old man. At the age of thirteen I was five foot four with luscious brown hair. At sixty-eight I have very gray hair and I am shorter than I was at my prime age. I want to share a true story of my lifetime of the Armenian and Turkey war, I want to share this because a lot of people don't know what really happened during that horrible time. It was fifty-five years ago when I was at the age of thirteen. I was living in Armenia with my father. Armenia is a country that has tall mountains, green grass and small shacks for families like mine. This is what it looked like before the Turks came to Armenia. When the Turks came to Armenia the land was destroyed, the shacks turned to rubble and the ground was dirt. Armenia is a country that is located right next to Turkey. Armenia and Turkey were disputing about the religious beliefs. My mother died at the day my birth. I never got to know her but my father told me she was very pretty and kind. My father was forced to marry her at the age of seventeen. My father did not have any pictures of my mother, but i still could imagine how beautiful she must have been. My father was involved in the war, he was one of the leaders in the army, he was basically like a commander. If he told any of the Armenian armies secrets then he would be executed immediately. But still through all his years in the war, he never talked about his army affairs. Sadly my father died, not from getting caught, but instead he died of old age.

WHAT KIND OF LEAD IS THIS? WHY DOES ZAKI WANT TO SHARE THIS INFORMATION TO PEOPLE? WHAT DOES ZAKI LOOK LIKE NOW AT 55 AND THEN AT 13? DESCRIBE THE LANDSCAPE AND GEOGRAPHY OF ARMENIA. WHAT DID YOUR MOTHER LOOK LIKE? AND FATHER? WHY WAS YOUR FATHER INVOLVED IN THE WAR? YOUR LAST SENTENCE... "WHEN MY MOTHER...." DOES NOT MAKE SENSE. YOU JUST MENTIONED ABOVE THAT YOUR FATHER TOLD YOU ABOUT YOUR MOTHER. SO HOW WAS ZAKI LEFT ALONE THEN?

OK... DON'T "BOOM BOOM BOOM" ALL OF YOUR POINTS TOGETHER. REMEMBER YOU ARE A GROUP THAT NEEDS TO EXPLAIN THINGS FULLY, DON'T JUST GET RIGHT TO THE POINT; LEAVE YOUR READER SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO.

"GUM..."

=RISING ACTION= Here is how my story begins. When I was thirteen my father told me to go spy on the Turks because he heard some rumors that they were going to invade Armenia. I was determined to help him and find out what was going on with the Turks. I got my stuff packed and was ready to go on my 12 day trip to Turkey. I left my town of Alaverdi, which is located on the banks on the Debed river, and started on my way to Angora, the capital city of Turkey. In my travels I met many people and visited many towns in Armenia. Unfortunately I used all my supplies before I got to my destination. I was so hungary and thirsty that I passed out on the road. When I awoke I found my self in a shack with a compress on my head. I noticed a young woman making dinner, a man arriving from work, and a child playing with a rag doll. I asked "Where am I?" The woman heard me and came to my side and told me that her husband found me on the side of the road unconscience. When her husband brought me home, she checked me for illness. I looked very bad so she let me rest. Then she generously asked " Would you like to stay for dinner?" I told them I would be much obliged to stay for dinner. She acted more proper then a queen and she was really generous. At dinner, they asked what I was doing on the side of the road. I told them I was going to a city near the border of Turkey. They asked why was I going there. I told them that I needed to get information for my dad. They let me sleep in thier shack for the night and I would leave in the morning. I awoke to a loud noise booming in the night. I went outside to see what it was and it was 3 soliders from the Turkish army. Then I saw the family that took me in lined up with there hands up. I knew that they might do something to hurt them, so I got my stuff and ran into the woods to hide. Then I heard 3 gunshots coming from the road the soliders were on. I looked on the road and saw the family dead on the road with gun shot wounds right near the heart. I saw blood trickle down from the wound and the soilders were just laughing and kicking the corpses. I was tearing, but not crying becauseI didn't want to reveal my location. That is when I learned about the true horrors about the Turks. I ran and fled to the city of Angora. This is the place my dad told me to find out if the rumor is true or not. I disguised my self as a Turk using the clothes my dad gave me. I went into the city to find out the information about the attack. They told me that everybody knew about it last month. One man took me to a briefing about the attack on the town Alaverdi. I was scared and I was going to run back to Alaverdi, but I heard the army left a week ago to attack Alaverdi and will get there in 5 days. I was really frightened and I stromed out of the tent and went through the city to get back home. I ran as fast as I could to get back to Armenia. On the way back, I payed respect to the family that nursed me back to health by putting flowers in the place they were shot. After that, I continued to run back to Alaverdi to warn everyone before it was to late. It took me 7 days to reach Alaverdi. I was to late. Alaverdi was changed in a way that no one will ever forget.

=CLIMAX= What I saw was that my village was destroyed and the shacks were rubble. There were bodies everywhere under the rubble and scattered on the ground. The people looked like they were shot, stabbed, straved and reaped. I was so scared I screamed and almost fainted. I had one thought in my mind and that was where is my dad and is he alive or not. I looked everywhere and couldn't find my dad anywhere. I just sat there on a pile of rubble thinking that the Turks might have taken his body and threw it into the sea. When my hope was lost, I heard a muffled noise coming from the rubble under me. I moved the rubble and discovered that my dad was under the rubble with some cuts on his arms. I ran to the river to get him some water for him to drink. When he awoke, he told me what happened. What I heard terrified me. He asked me to find a place to go to. I loked around and saw there were no places to hide in. I told him that maybe we should go to another country. He asked "Where should we go?" I told him that Russia is a country that we can take refuge in. So, we decided to take refuge in Russia. I helped my dad put on turkish clothes so we blend in with the Turkish people. We left Alaverdi to make our walk to Russia. =FALLING ACTION=

=RESOLUTION=