The Kite Runner Reflective Journal Essay
Lesson 6 Reflective Journal Assignment 1:
Review and think about the section titled "Contemporary Postmodern Understandings of Culture and Variation in Human Behavior" found in Chapter 8 of your text.
Select (either from your own collection, borrowed from your local public library, or rented from a video store) and watch a full-length movie that depicts a particular culture or way of life. Some suggestions are Kite Runner, Crash, The Great Debaters, A Walk in the Clouds, Grand Torino, The Joy Luck Club, Dances With Wolves, etc. You may choose a movie you know well but watch it again through the eyes of a sociologist. Your task is to look critically at the culture.
You must write a one-paragraph synopsis of the movie (in your own words, not …show more content…
This movie is about two boys growing up in Afghanistan during the time just before the Russian soviet military came to disrupt the families and lives of people living in Afghanistan. Many families escaped to Pakistan and the United States. The two boys as children were friends and flew kites in competition with other children. This kite flying was a tradition there for many years. The boy’s names were Amir and Hassan. Hassan was the servant in the home of Amir’s family. Hassan and his wife were shot and killed leaving their son orphaned. Amir returned to rescue Hassan’s son and bring him back to the United States to live with him and his wife. Amir’s father had brought him to the United States when his was a child. When his father became ill, Amir brought him to a doctor, when his father found out that the doctor came from Russia, this angered him and he walked out and went to a doctor that was from his country. The father continued to have angry feeling toward anyone that was Russian. Religious people from Pakistan that lived in refugee camps were called the Taliban. The Taliban fought back when the Russian government attempted to change the rules and language of some of the groups that were not part of the
Review and think about the section titled "Contemporary Postmodern Understandings of Culture and Variation in Human Behavior" found in Chapter 8 of your text.
Select (either from your own collection, borrowed from your local public library, or rented from a video store) and watch a full-length movie that depicts a particular culture or way of life. Some suggestions are Kite Runner, Crash, The Great Debaters, A Walk in the Clouds, Grand Torino, The Joy Luck Club, Dances With Wolves, etc. You may choose a movie you know well but watch it again through the eyes of a sociologist. Your task is to look critically at the culture.
You must write a one-paragraph synopsis of the movie (in your own words, not …show more content…
This movie is about two boys growing up in Afghanistan during the time just before the Russian soviet military came to disrupt the families and lives of people living in Afghanistan. Many families escaped to Pakistan and the United States. The two boys as children were friends and flew kites in competition with other children. This kite flying was a tradition there for many years. The boy’s names were Amir and Hassan. Hassan was the servant in the home of Amir’s family. Hassan and his wife were shot and killed leaving their son orphaned. Amir returned to rescue Hassan’s son and bring him back to the United States to live with him and his wife. Amir’s father had brought him to the United States when his was a child. When his father became ill, Amir brought him to a doctor, when his father found out that the doctor came from Russia, this angered him and he walked out and went to a doctor that was from his country. The father continued to have angry feeling toward anyone that was Russian. Religious people from Pakistan that lived in refugee camps were called the Taliban. The Taliban fought back when the Russian government attempted to change the rules and language of some of the groups that were not part of the