BOOK Review.: bye bye kite runner

Title: Kite Runner
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Genre: Fiction, Historical, Drama.
Subject: Afghanistan
Kite runner is a tale of toy boys who grow up in Kabul and share the bond of brotherhood. When a situation that devastated them both occurs they are both uprooted from their home and separated by time race, guilt, lies, death, and war. The war that plagues there beautiful Afghani city.
Amir and Hassan play together all the time, but Amir never treats Hassan quite the same, this is why. Baba plays a major role in Amir's issues because he doesn’t support Amir in the things he loves. Amir takes on the feeling that Baba hates him because his mom died giving birth to him. Baba treats Hassan like a real son, even thought it isn’t established to Amir that Hassan is Baba’ son too. He feels left out, even thought he has more than Hassan he lacks one thing, his father’s approval. On top of his father being ashamed of him, he is also ashamed of himself for not being able to be like Hassan. He is actually jealous of Hassan, he has two dads, but when we think about it in a sense of compassion and unconditional love, Amir doesn’t have that. After Hassan was sexually assaulted Amir gets even more depressed at his inability to be brave like Hassan. After Amir moves to California things seem dry for him. I think he misses Kabul. He was only a kid so I feel as though he wouldn’t be able to get over leaving for a while and he also wouldn’t be able to get over Hassan being hurt until he learned to face his fears.

Amir was always a person who considered a person of high standing to be stronger, so he easily gave in, feeling inferior to them. He also felt superior over Hassan, but Hassan knew that and never took it to heart or hated him for it. Hassan was at peace with himself in a way. He knew that he had to give Amir the respect that he’d want Amir to give him. He treated Amir how he would want to be treated, even though in return Amir stood by letting Hassan fight for him, even in this instance, “Hassan shrugged. To an outsider, he didn’t look scared, but Hassan’s face was my earliest memory.” He knew Hassan was scared and had little defense, but he dared not stand up for himself.

I think that Amir becomes brave when he goes back to Afghanistan to save Hassan’s son. He sees so many things that he missed out on because he was lucky. “I don’t know if I gave Assef a good fight…I had never so much as thrown a punch in my entire life”. This quote shows him changing from I don’t know if I fought good but the matter becomes less about him and more about protecting Sohrab In a way living in America taught him that defiance is okay when it’s defying someone who is corrupt. Assef was the person who forced him to stand up, not for himself but for Sohrab his brother’s son. Whilst confronting Assef the only thing he thought about was Sohrab, Hassan, and how he couldn’t let Sohrab be an orphan any longer, how he couldn’t let Soroya become a widow, and how Hassan took the pain for him a long time ago. Thus giving him enough courage to not die in vain, to fight back.

Hassan is a much different character in this story. When Hassan was a child Amir and him were fed from the same person, the lived together from birth but a major thing that set Hassan apart from Amir is that Hassan enjoyed the innocence of his youth for as long as he could. He was always kind and considerate. That is because he was cared for by his Ali. Ali must have put morals and lessons into Hassan so that he would grow older and stay kind and pure hearted.
Hassan was a real friend to Amir; he protected him from Assef when he tried to hurt him. And the second time Hassan paid a price for being such a loyal friend to a coward. Yet Hassan knew Amir was there, he never was angry at him for not stopping Assef. Never blamed Amir, the guilt Amir felt was his own not someone else making him feel guilty. He always thought highly of Amir because he wasn’t as educated as Amir, and didn’t write like Amir either. Hassan didn’t need to know that he and Amir were brothers; he already treated Amir as if he were an older brother with respect and submission. If Amir had let time take its course and not blame himself so often for the incident then their relationship would have healed, but Amir would have remained cowardice. In reality, Amir trying forget and eventually forgetting his past for a while, guilt of witnessing and not helping Hassan when he was being raped, and Baba never telling Amir and Hassan that they were brothers due to his own pride was what made the two unable to meet again. It made them unable to reconnect, apologize, and bond.

Unfortunately they never made up because these two characters would have healed old wounds and start new. This would give Amir a chance to say sorry, to hug Hassan, to tell him that he was in fact his only friend. Once Hassan died and Amir found out I’m sure there was no reason he would have been as devastated as he was. I’d be sad to if I treated someone like a turd and found out later that he was my brother. Eventually Hassan and his wife encounter a tragic death but Hassan didn’t know he would be shot. I’m sure it would have meant the world to Hassan to know that Amir traveled so far to save his son, even if he wasn’t alive, his soul would be able to rest in peace.

final kite runner :(

This week’s reading for kite runner was the last section. I was pretty pissed off at the ending because I felt unsatisfied; it was like a lukewarm solution. I honestly wished for a happily ever after but this isn’t really this type of book. Thought out the book I was able to see that almost all of the characters are dynamic. Hassan even thought he died lived happily after the traumatic event that changed his life, in some ways for the better. Hassan may have never escaped Kabul and found his wife and had Sohrab if he hadn’t left from Amir.

I think Amir changed the most of all the characters. It starts as him being this jealous, bully-type, careless boy, then when he witnesses Hassan being raped, it completely changes his attitude. Amir isn’t able to forgive himself, but he gets the chance to atone for not sticking up for Hassan. I don’t think he went to save Sohrab because he was feeling guilty. I believe that he did it for himself, and for Sohrab’s sake.

Sohrab is just like Hassan in so many ways but he is a little quiet. And this disappoints Soroya. I understand why he’s quiet; he was sexually abused and not cared for. His parents were killed and he had been taken from his home land. A lot of things that go on in the book were cruel and frightening. I was glad thought that at the end Sohrab at least smiles a little. Ironically Amir ends up getting his lip split right in half just like a harelip, it made me realize that in the end he adopted an attitude like Hassan and stood up, fearful of being hurt but less concerned about himself. I was in a way proud that Amir improved because he learned that Hassan was his blood too he no longer saw a reason there should be a difference. He overcame his fearfulness and forever changed and saved Sohrab’s life for the better.

With a bonus some one BEASTED ASSEFS ASS. YAYUH!

Positive Deviant

A positive deviant in the passage meant straying away from the norm, the systematic dry lifestyles in professional work. In a student’s case it means being different in a way that makes a bigger impact, to get the grades but to act differently from the rest in a positive way.
I plan to use each of Dr. Gawunde‘s suggestions for being a positive deviant in high school and college. Using the first suggestion “unscripted questions” will come in handy. Being one to always ask questions makes this suggestion easier to follow. I find it easier to get along with teachers, students, and other peers and adults if you first get to know them. I like getting to know my classmates and teachers and I plan to continue doing that and when I become a psychiatrist I would like still apply this suggestion.

The next suggestion is something I learned in elementary school. Complains is a pet peeve along with excuses, to teachers. I don’t complain or I try not to because usually when I have it has gotten me nowhere, complaining is senseless because everything is the way it is for a reason. For the future instead of complaining I will be “doing”. If I don’t like something and I can do something about it why complain right? “Just do it” as Nike says. It seems as though complaining makes everything worse compelling a person to complain about the result they got from complaining. I definitely will not be complaining much!

When I first read the 3rd suggestion I didn’t really understand it, but I went back a read it again and then I caught on. When he said count something that something could be anything. Finding myself counting many things, I have counted how many times I’ve moved. How many years it will take the average person to get a PhD, I’ve even gotten to do Fermi questions and count something of great numerical value. Counting is fun. In high school and college I will be counting my teachers, my A’s (hopefully there will be lots of them to count), my days in school and out.

The 4th suggestion is already being applied. I love to write, I write poetry and stories. Even when I have to write an expository or persuasive paper I enjoy it. And writing not only applies to free write or class writing but I even want to start using a planner and writing what I have to do and will be using a planner from here until I don’t have to use it anymore. I’ll write for leisurely purposes and for productive times such as jobs and school and many other things. Writing helps me keep organized.

Change on of the most feared things for a lot of people, but not for me. I often change my appearance, my goals, and my dreams. Even moving from Illinois to California for the second time is change. Although change can take a turn for the worst, going to ASTI will be the best change in my life. Now and later on in life I will try to always be positive and open to change, because without change a system or team of people may always be flawed. And if people don’t change they tend to find themselves stuck. The 5ht suggestion is the one I can relate to most. Change to me is everything because without change in my life I wouldn’t have gotten to enjoy the feeling of success.

Response to 2nd reading of kite runner

This week’s reading for kite runner was very sad and depressing. The span of pages reveals the death of important characters Baba, general Taheri, Hassan, and Hassan’s wife.
BABA: Baba’s life was short lived because he suffered from cancer. I think it could have been from smoking and stress too. It really sucks that Baba didn’t tell Amir that Hassan was his brother but I think that he was too guilty and too proud. Knowing that Hassan was Baba’s son explained why Hassan got treated more like a son than Amir. I remember saying “Baba acts like Hassan is his son.” Well I was completely correct! I think over all he died happy, Amir was married, he graduated and because a known book publisher. He also knew Hassan was doing well too, seeing as Rahim was giving phone calls and checking in with Baba.
General Taheri: his death was very sad, and it made me sad for Amir and Soraya.
HASSAN: I am glad Hassan got to live and have a kid and a wife which I think if Amir hadn’t framed him of stealing, if they didn’t leave, he wouldn’t have gotten a chance at that. So without knowing I think I was right that Amir had done the nicest thing he ever would for Hassan by setting him free of that home. Sadly Hassan couldn’t get rid of such a friendship, he wouldn’t, because he knew deep down that Amir only acted like an ass to him because he felt bad, and he knew. Amir did always say Hassan was the only one who really understood. It was proven too. Unfortunately Hassan and his wife were killed in a crisis, and a complex situation. I think that Hassan didn’t want his son to live the same life as him, which is why he didn’t back down from the Taliban, he didn’t let his son grow up as an illiterate, and he carried the same kindness his father Ali showed him down to his son, so that he wouldn’t be bitter and cowardice like Amir was because of Baba’s neglect and hypocrisy.
I can’t wait to see what Amir will do once meeting the son of his brother and I can’t wait to see what Hassan’s son will do. I really hope Amir can move the guilt out of his heart and take in Hassan’s son as his own.

A witty respones to yazen's response to my post : Nothing Happens to Be Anything

We blame Bush, however i don't think only one man is responsible for what has been done.

Well Yazen i agree that people behind George bush, like people where behind Hitler, but it isn't true that we went in on terrorist threats. it maybe all you ever hear in the news, OH GREAT BIG SCARY PLACE WITH SCARY PEOPLE AND SCARY WEAPONS!

It seems like Oil happens to be what America wants, however the "cause" of going there in the begging was to stop a possible terrorist threat towards the people of both America and the other country's we claimed were in trouble.

i think not my friend. No the government wants to keep us confused, most people stopped caring because there are too many places to keep up with.
when it was stated that one of the OH SO SCARY PLACES had a powerful nuclear weapon, they send in our men and troops to stop this terrorist attack and then someone is like "cough cough no cough cough weapons cough cough oil".
it is NOT a coiencidence that we go to OPEC countries and fight. if we win the war, reparations will be made probably in oil, not in money. it'd give me a good laugh if that really happened. it seems as though i am crude toward our government but i am not stupid and nor is anyone else. if there isnt enough evidence of americas issues that the government tries to desprately cover up, walk outside, go to a car dealer ship and ask wheres the electric cars. Go to the airport and ask the manager how many electric planes do you have. Dont let people give you the half-assed excuse that we dont have the technology, that is a bunch of BS. Im pretty damn sure that we have the technology.

I say it's all a bunch of crap. Wiping out thousands of men, women, and children isn't a problem to any humans these days. It seems like Oil happens to be what America wants

Oil doesnt happen to be in the spots we fight, IT IS WHAT WE FIGHT FOR. OIL OVER LIVES. its what the people who really run america have come to, yeah its wrong but nothing happens by chance. After i wrote my essay i quickyly learned that we dont have enough oil in america to last us that long.

you can find his post on my post here

THE BEST POST EVER.

no.

NO NO NO KITE RUNNER NO NO NO WHAT THE HELL!?!?

WHAT THE HELL....WHAT THE HELL....OMFG WHAT THE HELL IS THAT.......NOOOOO -CRIES- DAMN EPIC NOVELS DAMN YOU ALL........-CRIES MORE- THIS IS SO EVIL, CONSUMING ME....THEN MAKING ME CRY.....IM SO ABUSED.....DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.......OMFG......! READ IT GUYS READ IT A CRY WITH KATHY ON MONDAY K......what the hell is this....omg im like ready to drop hecka eff bombs, MUST HOLD BAD ON SWEARING BUT JEEZ, I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS. IM MAAAADDD AND SAD AND MMAAAAAADDER

The Inside Of the Iraq War. Whats Really Going On? Why Did it Start? When Will it End?

The Ongoing Oil War

Oil: this is what America uses to power most of its machines and it is also what caused a war. After the prosperity of the 50’s and the civil rights conflicts of the 60’s, another problem struck the U.S. Hostility flared between America and Middle Eastern countries over decreasing the supply of oil . In October 1973 a shocking decision made by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries lead to chaos in the political and economical world, and shook up millions of lives in America, thus leading to today’s war between Iraq and America over the oil export limitations.

After WWII the Jewish wanted a place to go that was clean and holy, unlike Germany the place where 2/3 of their people’s population suffered massive genocide. They sought the “holy land” that was of extreme religious value to them, but they encountered a problem. The land was already owned, so by force the Jewish people with the help of America fought their way into Israel that was once Palestine. Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in attempt to gain back what was once Palestine, but America interfered, this made many nations angry especially the members of OPEC.

The OPEC’s oil embargo dated back to 1973, but the tension with OPEC and America goes back into the later 1960’s . In the 1960’s and early 1970’s when the Egyptians demanded their land back that was taken by Israelis in 1967. They tried to be subtle going about this situation, but the constant refusal meant war. The Egyptian leader had made a threat to start war with Israel if there was no agreement or backing down. Sudden attacks on Israel brought America to Israel’s aid. This action of generosity infuriated the Middle Eastern lands on the opposing side.

King Saud convinced OPEC to make a choice that still affects America today. They decided to put an embargo on oil going to America and the Netherlands. An embargo restricted both countries from receiving oil. This was a problem for America because it used the most oil out of all of the receiving countries. It causes a political uproar, but that’s exactly what OPEC wanted. Attention to the political world, they wanted people to worry, for not just the people concerned in the matter to feel the impact, but the whole U.S. to know that the members of OPEC where bubbling with anger toward America for supporting Israel in the Yom Kippur war.

Today the fight still remains but has shifted toward the territory where the oil lies, in Iraq. Iraq is one of the top oil producers in OPEC. So, America is trying to reach their oil, as if it is a competition. In the U.S. oil is very important and is used for mainly things such as planes, produce, machinery, and many others. It was recorded that 20,680,000 barrels were used in a day in America which is about 13,000,000 more than any other oil consumers . Oil is a profitable good and is extremely useful but the simplest attempt at a change in energy use, or even dependency could have brought us out of fighting many years ago. This fighting has caused enough casualties and even has had Americans held hostage in war. To prevent the further conflict alternative sources of dependant energy would solve many of our foreign oil conflicts.

124 kite runner discussion

8.

AMIR- Amir is the main character of the kite runner; he is his own antagonist at this point in the story. A big conflict arises when Amir doesn’t help Hassan in the alley when he was being sexually assaulted by Assef. This shows a lot about his character, Hassan was always kind to Amir so we ask why Amir didn’t protected Hassan like Hassan had protected him. This lies deep in Amir’s relationship with his father. Amir’s father__ was not good for him, didn’t encourage, show kindness, or cherish his son. So when Hassan did all of these things for no reason I think it true irked him internally. He wondered why Hassan doesn’t hate me, so often. Amir knew he was wrong but he was also jealous of Hassan because he was so pure and kind and his father and Amir’s father showed kindness to him. He was envious that Hassan didn’t envy him, Hassan felt complete with almost nothing. Amir stopped talking to Hassan after the incident in the alley because he was guilty and he knew it. Deep down he wanted to help but he felt hopeless and he cowered. He was glad it wasn’t him but he felt terrible for letting Hassan go through that. He didn’t act quick enough and he over thought the situation when he was witnessing it. Hassan hadn’t thought when he defended Amir from Assef the previous time, and for not standing up for Hassan, Amir became self hating it seems. He didn’t have the guts to face Hassan and be his friend because he felt like he didn’t deserve it, but he lied and said he didn’t know what happened to Hassan because he was too concerned over himself and his own punishment. If Amir was even a considerate person he would have helped. His character comes off kind to Rahim, loving to Baba, unengaged with Ali, selfish with Hassan, and hating toward himself. I was pretty sad when I read “that” part in the book and as of right now I’m viewing amir as a person who hasn’t made up his mind on what kind of person he will be, and it wasn’t stored in his heart by his father so I ultimately blame them both for amirs’s foolish thoughts