Chapter 16 of Khaled Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner” details Rahim Khan’s view point. Hosseini mainly focuses on Amir and Hassan, in this part of the novel. This essay will look at the ways that Hosseini tells the story in chapter 16, and techniques he uses specifically to explain the story. In chapter 16 there are many descriptive features that help the reader feel Rahim’s emotions, subtly. To begin with; this chapter is a complete contrast compared to all of the other chapters, simply because the narrator who is telling the story has completely changed, without notice but you can almost definitely see the change.
He refers to the tortillas as “language, history, cultural views, and themes of our literature” (Anaya 69). This symbol of tortillas is very effective in his arguments against censorship. He describes how eliminating the “tortillas” takes away from the ethnic value of the writing leaving many authors hardship by conforming to write accepted texts. He then goes on to say how being forced to conform to the accepted principals does not allow people to understand the diversity that is here in their own multicultural country. Before Anaya tells the reader how censorship has affected him, he goes into detail on how it has affected other writers.
Throughout the entire book Tim O’Brien was as deceptive as they come. When introducing us to the other characters and him, O’Brien dissolved the barrier between truth and fiction. Along with this barrier went the reader’s trust. No longer was there the individuality of truth and fiction but now there was more like a dangling ambiguity of every little fact in the story. From the length of the grass, to the color of Mary Anne’s culottes, it was all probably made up.
Commentary For my transformation I chose Wilfred Owen’s poem Exposure. I chose this for my base text because I enjoyed Owen’s elevated use of lexis to refer to the obscene weather conditions in the poem. I also enjoyed how Owen emphasised the importance of time and waiting in the poem, through this idea I thought I could produce a sound transformation. I chose to turn my transformation into the form of a letter, I did this because I felt that the feelings of Owen could be portrayed expertly in a letter however I could not have the letter addressed to a family member of Owen’s because the feelings presented in his poem would not have been suitable to reveal to the members of his family therefore I addressed the letter to a friend of Owen’s who had been in the Army and been through the same or similar events as Owen himself. I started my letter with the date however I did not make it specific because I wanted to portray that Owen has lost track of time and can’t be sure what day it actually is.
Groundhog Day The three characters I'm going to focus on are Phil the weatherman, Larry the camera guy and Rita the producer. Source - Everyone in the scene is considered a source since they're all processing information and giving out messages. Phil is processing his built up disgust from events that he experienced earlier in the film. Larry and Rita are clearly receiving Phil's message frustration and processing their own interpretation of Phil's message. Message- Phil immediately shows he is unhappy by the look on his face, the words he uses and the way he says them and his body language.
In act IV scene VII lines 123-164 of Hamlet there is a very long exchange of words of revenge towards Hamlet between Claudius and Laertes, but in the David Tennant version much of the unimportant speech is cut out and only the most important of the conversation is left. This appeals to a modern audience, because this particular scene is very long with many allusions and metaphors to seeking revenge on Hamlet, but in this version most of these are cut out and the point is made very quickly instead. The director, Gregory Doran, also chose to add parts and dialog to certain scenes, this passage is no different as the characters are talking about how the plan to take revenge the director adds the word rapier in to the dialog to let the modern audience know that they are talking about a sword, and later changes the word unbated to “unblunted” to describe to a modern audience who may not know the meaning of
Into Thin Air Journal • Intro and Chapter One o Into Thin Air starts off with one of the main elements it uses throughout the whole of the book, foreshadowing. Jon Krakauer begins with just telling you what is going to happen to every character in the book, and for me makes it even more interesting of a read. For me, in the first chapter I could almost feel the lack of oxygen Krakauer was feeling, and see the vast expansion of mountains in front of me. Already though, just from reading the intro and first chapter, I know I’m to not like the book for the surplus of names and insignificant characters being mentioned. Can’t wait to see how Krakauer reaches the top.
I can easily understand why the short story made such an impact in the literary and medical worlds. However, I have a hard time understanding how the story is enjoyable to read. Personally, I could not sit through the story and finish it in one sitting. The repetitive language and obsessive nature of the narrator gets extremely irritating. While other gothic tale’s we’ve read in class have been spooky, ironic, or at least entertaining, I feel that this story is literally sickeningly long.
After presenting this idea, Updike quality of writing changes plus his use of diction and starts writing with intelligence and a reason. “A way to thwart Progress, usually so unthwartable …an unsettling jolt… slight of a consistently inverted beer can might make people edgy, not to say queasy.” Updike tone is taking over and makes his speech sound motivational. He even makes up his own word “unthwartable” showing how he does not care how ridiculous he sounds. Updike is overcome with this approach of settling. “What we need is progress with an escape hatch” Change cannot just happen so sudden.
Warm water in the pacific is usually pushed to the west but during El Niño the warm water stays near the Northwestern coasts of South America which can cause damages in fishing and changes in weather pattern across the world. The article was very well written and had many examples and explanations to help the average reader to understand the results of both La Niña and El Niño. I don’t like the fact that the article wasn’t direct with informing the reader what El Niño and La Niña actually are; I believe that information was too subtle and could have