The Kite Runner Book Trailer

Khaled Hossseini’s novel the Kite Runner is filled with themes of friendship, fear, cowardice, sins, guilt, loss, love, and redemption.  The Kite Runner is the story two boys, Amir and Hassan, growing up in Kabul, Afghanistan.  One boy is the son of a rich merchant and the other is the son of their Hazaran servant.  Both boys lost their mothers when they were young, but share and unbreakable bond because they nursed from the same women. 

The boys are raised in the same house but live in different worlds.   The boys live culturally different lives.  Amir is a Pashtun and Hassan as Hazaran.   Amir lives a privileged life and Hassan the life of the servant. 

Amir is fearful and never stands up for himself.  Hassan fights all Amir’s fights because of their friendship.  One day the boys encounter an older boy named Assef.  Assef is a brutal and racist boy, who has the nickname Assef the ear eater.  Hassan saves Amir from Assef, but Assef will be back. 

Kite fighting plays a major part in Afghanistan’s winter.  Kite fighting is where the Afghan come together in a competition where they try to cut each others kites.  Kite runners then run after the kites to catch them.  Hassan is the best kite runner in Kabul.  In the winter of 1975, Hassan runs his last kite.  Assef brutally attacks Hassan and Amir watches but is to cowardly to stop it.  Amir and Hassan go their separate ways because of this and are later separated by war.  Amir goes to America and Hassan stays in Afghanistan.

Many years later Amir returns to Afghanistan, where he learns of the lies he and Hassan were told.  Amir learns that there is a way to redeem what he did to Hassan.  Amir learns that “There is a way to be good again.”

 

6 word memoir

Takeing Wrong Turns Makes The Adventure

My six word memoir is Taking Wrong Turns Makes The Adventure.   There have been times where I set out to go somewhere and then I took a wrong turn and went somewhere different.  Whether it is traveling somewhere or walking around town the journey is not a means to the end but what you do along the way.  Sometimes you can make set plans and other times you should just go with things.  I’ve taken wrong turns and just kept following that direction and its more interesting. 

 

 

 



5 Looks On A Book Sherman Alexie

Oppression, Poverty, Choices, Chances, Hope

                These five words describe the Sherman Alexies’s novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.”  The main character Junior lives on a reservation that is full of oppression and poverty.  Junior’s reservation is poor and lacks the resources for him to have choices and chances.  Junior must deal with the oppression of his reservation school system.   Junior is sick of being poor and hopes for a better life.  Junior decides to leave the reservation and go to an all-white school where he will have the choices and chances to have a better life. 

I drew this sketch that represents my 5 words.  This is my own drawing of a cartoon from the book that shows hope.  In my sketch I have arrows pointing one direction saying oppression and poverty and in the other direction it shows arrows saying chances, choices, hope.  The arrows with oppression and poverty are pointing to the reservation because those are the things Junior will deal with if he stays on the reservation.  The arrows showing chances, choices, and hope are pointing to Reardan where Junior will be able to have a better life.  The sign showing 22 miles is meant to show the way to Reardan because Reardan is 22 miles away from the Reservation. 

 

Class Topic: I, Tweet, Therfore I Am

 

In my English 100 class we read an article called “I, tweet, Therefore I am.”  This article discusses how people use social media sites to convey a fake persona of how they want others to perceive them.  The author, Peggy Orenstein, discusses that when she tweeted, she was describing a situation in a way that she wanted others to react to.  In today’s era of social media, people are broadcasting the smallest details of their life.  Even though a situation may be meaningless, people will broadcast it and try to make it seem meaningful.   Many people live less in the moment of what is really happening, but more in the moment of what they want people perceive of them. 

Freedom Advertisement

I picked an advertisement that represented freedom and individuality for my English class.   I had to find an advertisement that represented American ideals like cool, beauty, freedom, individuality, or etc.  The advertisement i picked was for a clothing company called Prana clothing.  I had never herd of this company until I say the advertisment in Outside Magazine.  They sell clothing for people who travel and for activities like climbing and yoga.  There motto in the advertisment says that their clothing is for "people who live fully, play long, and travel well."  The message that I think they are trying to sell is that their clothing gives you the freedom to travel where you want and do what you want, and the clothing will last.  The slogan they have in this advertisement says "The art of living knows no bounds."  I thought that the advertisement i picked  shows the American ideal's of freedom and individuality because it shows a lone man riding a motorcycle on a remote dirt road.  The man is the only on around and has the freedom of going where he wants and doing what he wants.  The advertisement has a slogan that shows freedom because it says "Down distant paths for unmapped miles."  I found this advertisement in the August 2012 issue of outside magazine but I couldn't find the image online.