He would ask Amir if he wanted Hassan to go places with them, when, in reality, Amir didn’t want to think about Hassan at all. Baba also threw a big party for Amir, but Amir knew that he only did it because he won the kite tournament. If he had not won he never would have gotten a party. At this party, Amir received many presents, but referred to them as “blood money” and refused to pay much attention to any of them (101). In the novel, Amir admits that they “deceived [themselves] into thinking that a toy made of tissue paper, glue, and bamboo could somehow close the chasm between [them]” (87).
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Dialectical Journal Ch 1-3 “ The Window Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was a rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the window was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out” (1,1) “ When we was ten foot off Tom whispered to me, and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun. But I said no; je might wake and make a disturbance, and then they'd find out I warn't in. Then Tom said he hadn't got candles enough, and he would slip in the kitchen and get some more. I didn't want him to try. I said Jim might wake up and come.
Except now that I had it, I felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.” (p. 85). It is in this way that Hosseini uses the kite symbol to develop irony; Amir believes that the kite would be the savior of his relationship with Baba, but in reality, it is only superficial love. Amir wanted to be like Baba, but he didn’t realize that he already was like Baba. He was incapable of having a real relationship with a person, and valued things like kite fighting over actual relationships. It is because of this that he betrays Hassan, and says, “He was just a Hazara, wasn’t he?” (p. 77).
Towards the end of the Kite Runner has a lot of of irony, The first example is in chapter seven in the Kite runner and how Amir watches Hassan get rapped he does nothing to help his friend out. HOW DOES AMIR'S "WATCHING" REVEAL IRONY? The second example is near the end of story, when Amir goes back to pakistan and talks to Rahim Khan, Rahim Khan tells Amir all the things his father did not. He finds out that Hassan is his half brother. When Amir was going back to Kabul, he finds Assef the man who rapped His Best friend, He's see Sorhab Hassan child getting rapped too.
(Page 26) Huck went to Jim and told him pap had been back , and Jim said you have to go away. They are also lived together. Tom told Huck to play a joke on Jim and tie Jim to the tree but Huck said (no page 12). (Page 112) Huck says , he feels so mean he could of kissed Jims foot to get him to take back the joke.
The author of this story, Gary Soto, has taken this old biblical tale and made it intertwine with his own sin, which he called his tale “The Pie”. When Gary was just a meer boy of six, he too got his first taste of sin, when he made the ambiguous decision to steal an apple pie. Young Gary, in his story, resembles Adam and Eve. After Gary had stolen the pie, he was faced with the weight of the overbearing guilt. Soon after, adolescent Gary came to the conclusion that her had lost the innocence he once took for granted.
The narrator than continues describes a tradition in Sicily, where planting of a tree represents the birth of a child, because the earth has "one more life to bear". The narrator claims that he would have followed this tradition. However instead he is in the cold on his knees planting the sequoia, the native tree of California. With the tree he plants a lock of hair and an infant's umbilical cord. Only now in the middle of the poem does the narrator express that he is burying his son and reconnecting him with the elements of nature.
The symbols that help out the better understanding of the characters are the kite, a soccer ball and brass knuckles. In the novel the kite symbolizes the deception of Amir and Hassan’s friendship and the redemption for Amir. The kite is the bond between Amir and Hassan; it brings them together like brothers. For instance, when Assef and the two boys had Hassan trapped in the corner of an ally and demanded him to hand over the kite but Hassan responded with, “Amir Agha won the tournament and I ran this kite for him. I ran it fairly” (P.77) and later got raped.
Hassan is always in Amir’s mind as a memory and this is sown through the symbolism of the kites. Even when Amir is thousands of miles away from Hassan, a sudden glimpse of kite flying in the air is enough to bring a flood of memories of the two of them back to haunt Amir. Hassan is never used as the first narrator in the novel, already showing that he was meant to be situated in a lower class than other characters in the story. Hosseini uses Hassan portray hope in the novel and uses his constant forgiveness as a sign of loyalty. This shows the major divide of the Pashtuns and Hazaras.
Perla Villarreal English 2/BAC January 8, 2013 LOTF ESSAY The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Henry David Thoreau once said, “Goodness is the only investment that never fails”. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding tests this theory. When a group of British boys crash into an island and are left alone without any supervision, they are forced to change to a cruel lifestyle that changes Simon’s and Piggy’s innocence. Golding illustrates Piggy’s and Simon’s goodness to show that when people respect and help others it makes a stable society. To begin Simon helps the Liluns pick fruit because they cannot reach it.