Formal Writing- Kite Runner “There is way to be good again.” This remark of Rahim Khan suggested to Amir that he could make up for his past mistakes. This realistic novel highlights the tension between two ethnic groups the Pashtun and the Hazara living together in 1970’s Afghanistan. This is shown in the story through the two main characters and their childhood friendship as Pashtun and Hazara boys. A significant event in Kite Runner is the Assef’s violation of Hassan after the kite flying tournament. When Amir decided to run away from Assef’s attack on Hassan, it meant that he chose to protect himself rather than help his friend.
Chapter 7 helps us(the readers) shape Amir’s character in more detail, “I kept/with the kite.” This shows us that Amir is paranoid about what Baba thinks of him as a person due to him listening to Rahim Khan’s and Baba’s conversation in the previous chapter. “but this was my one chance to become someone who was looked at.” This is said by Amir while he is flying the kite which shows that he is very eager to fit in with society and into the hierarchy set by the society because Amir being a ‘Pashtun’ is referred to be superior as Pashtun’s were the most powerful ethnic groups in Afghanistan. This also shows that Amir is seeking for Baba to notice him trying to achieve victory to seek the sense of attention which he lacked in his childhood because Amir thinks that Baba blames him for his mother passing away in childbirth. “the streets glistened with fresh snow and the sky was a blameless blue” is used to describe the setting of the beginning of this chapter when the kite festival is about to start. Hosseini uses juxtaposition of the delightful day with the horrifying incident to suggest that the appearance does not represent the reality within the book for example the beautiful setting of the chapter does not represent the rape incident which happens later on in the chapter.
“rain had called up tall recruits behind the shed,” this quote shows the father cannot destroy them .They differ in the way they felt powerless however as in Nettles the father is feeling powerless because of a physical threat whereas in Harmonium it is an emotional threat of the inevibility of death and unspoken feelings that makes the writer feel powerless. Furthermore they both include the reality of family life as the poems are realistic and the poems, especially Nettles, have both the love and misery of family relationships. In Nettles the love in the poem is the protective instincts of a parent towards his son but the misery is the Nettles that had hurt his child and the fact that being protective isn’t enough to stop him from getting hurt. The realistic relationship in Harmonium is the family resentment and frustration from a son to his father. We can tell that the writer resents and is frustrated by his father as it says “and he being him can’t help but say.......... and I, being me” which shows that he is frustrated at their relationship.
Baba was a typical father that expected his son to be into athletic things such as soccer and such, and when Amir tried things of that nature, he felt bad because he was not as good as Baba had hoped. But one thing that interested both Amir and Baba was the Kite tournament. It was Amir’s dream to win the tournament so that Baba could be proud of something that he did. Later on throughout the story, Amir won that tournament and in order to show Baba the winning kite, the price he had to pay was to watch his friend Hassan get raped. In Chapter 7 Amir states, “I actually aspired to cowardice, because the alternative, the real reason I was running, was that Assef was right: Nothing was free in this world.
The conversation between Amir and Hassan has Amir’s describing that moment to indicate the nature of his relationship with Hassan. We see Hassan serving him, like a Hazara does for a Pashtun, and telling Amir about his dream, which shows their friendship. Hosseini seems to have put that at the beginning to inform us once more of their relationship before it fluctuates later on. Some pleasant imagery is used of the weather and kite competition. The “blameless blue” sky has ironic implications of the blame we will soon put on Amir for betraying Hassan.
Kelly Geary Professor Melanie Jordan ENGL 1102 Section 05 13 April 2015 Airplane: An Analysis of Snowpiercer In the film Snowpiercer, directed by Bong Joon-Ho, an important scene occurs when the New Year is being brought in amidst a huge fighting scene. One thing that may have been overlooked is when Namgoong Minsu is showing his daughter, Yona, the outside world. At first glimpse all that is visible is a blanket of white; it isn’t until later on in the film that we finally figure out why the object outside is so important to him. Forty-six minutes and twenty seconds into the film, all of the fighting comes to a halt and they begin to count down, raising their axes in the air with each number (Joon-Ho). We get a glimpse of the bridge, the frozen tracks up ahead, and a canyon down below covered in white snow and ice; this is the first we see of the airplane, but we aren’t sure of it yet (Joon-Ho).
Amir and his father are Sunni, while Hassan and his father are Shi'a. Religion was a very big topic at the time and Amir would be embarrassed to be seen with Hassan. There would be a lot of discrimination against physical features and religious beliefs. Hassan truly considered Amir one of his best friends and would do anything for him, while Amir's love for Hassan was mostly selfish. In one situation, a bully named Assef is about to violently attack Amir for socializing with a Shi'a, but Hassan stands up for Amir and threatens to shoot Assef in the eye with his slingshot.
As you know Anh still cares about his father even though he wont admit it witch makes me look back on my life. And make me think about my family and my father as they are not together and if that were I what would I be doing. The passage really brings a tear to my eye and is one of my favorites because you really get to see a different side of Anh. 2. Explain any two conventions used in this passage and analyze the effects of these conventions: Point of view: The great part of having a bias story is you only have one point of view means you get to go directly into the person’s head.
Again, Amir’s jealousy of Baba’s treatment of Hassan is shown as they are buying kites for the kite fighting tournament. When Amir would ask for a better kite, Baba would get him one, as well as one for Hassan. This makes Amir jealous and he says, “Sometimes I [wish] he wouldn’t do that. [Wish] he would let me be the favourite.” (Hosseini 54). Once more, Amir directly states that he was jealous that Hassan was treated equal to himself.
I hated reading the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. It was a very good book but it was so depressing, tragic, and scary. As I read this story, one bad thing happened after another. I did not like the narrator Amir because he was very selfish throughout most of the book and took advantage of a special friendship that him and Hassan shared until Amir didn't want anything else to do with him. As a child, Amir was constantly trying to impress his father, Baba, who looked up to Hassan more than he did Amir.