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    In the book The Kite Runner‚ I believe Amir tried to seek redemption in several ways. Amir felt responsible for his mother’s death and felt Baba also blamed him for her death. He strives to redeem himself by winning the kite tournament and taking the winning kite to Baba. Secondly‚ when Amir stood back and did not help Hassan when he was being raped. I believe this was the turning point in Amir’s life. Even after the sexual assault to Hassan‚ Amir never acknowledged the incident to Hassan or provided

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    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Christopher’s idiosyncrasies in the text are- not eating food after it has touched other food‚ ‘if his senses become overloaded or his brain is confused’ he will curl up in a ball and groan and perhaps for hours at a time‚ he prefers red‚ hates brown and yellow‚ he uses consecutive colours of cars to determine if it were to be a good day or a bad day. When I discussed my idiosyncrasies with my mum she stated- Every live stock truck that drives

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    Richard Parker Character Critical Essay: “Life of Pi” is a novel about a sixteen year old boy named Piscine Patel who survives for 227 days on a lifeboat at sea after he loses his family in s shipwreck. Pi is interviewed at the end of the book by two men from the ships company who do not accept his first story which involves a number of animals on the lifeboat with him. He then tells a much more brutal‚ realistic story where the animals are now metaphor for humans. The reader is then left to decide

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    Khaled Hosseini creates suspense throughout the novel using several different techniques: from foreshadowing to metaphorical inputs that makes the reader’s imagination run wild. A tantalising mixture of all of the techniques and a contrast of good and evil‚ hot and cold and an extremely significant contrast of lifestyles and personalities makes the reader feel on edge after every chapter‚ every stanza‚ and every line. The novels most critical part is in chapter seven with some important parts within

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    support your ideas with detailed references to the text. Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious incident of the Dog in the Night-time which is written from the view of a fifteen year old boy Christopher who has Asperger’s syndrome‚ not only does this book demonstrate how challenging life is for the disabled‚ but also for everyone. Having the main character Christopher narrate the story gives you the chance to connect with him and also to experience and understand the challenges he faces in his everyday

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    In the novel The Kite Runner‚ written by Khaled Hosseini‚ the characters Hassan‚ Amir and Sohrab fill important roles throughout the story. Hassan fills the role of tragedy within the novel because of the multiple unfortunate events which occur toward him in the novel. As a child Hassan is bullied for being a Hazara and is then raped for the same reason. Hassan is betrayed by his best friend when Amir watches him get raped but does nothing to stop it‚ and lastly Hassan is killed as a young adult

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    Pi (short for Piscine Molitor Patel) is a young Indian boy growing up in South India in the 1970’s. His father owns a zoo and‚ with increasing political unrest in India‚ decides to sell up and emigrate to Canada. In true Noah’s ark fashion‚ they accompany the wild animals on board the ship on their journey to the new zoos in North America. The ship sinks and Pi finds himself the only human survivor onboard a life raft that contains‚ rather remarkably‚ a zebra‚ a large motherly orangutan‚ a frenzied

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    "The Kite Runner" tells us‚ through Rahkim Khan that‚ "True redemption is when guilt leads to good again..." Rahkim Khan states. Throughout the course of The Kite Runner there are many characters that have committed sins and subsequently attempted to redeem themselves. The Kite Runner structured around main characters‚ Amir and Baba and their acts of betrayal. The impact of these acts continues to be felt throughout the novel manifesting itself in Amirs guilt ridden narrative. However‚ guilt is not

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    Alex DaPonte Mrs. Gill College English March 27 2012 Atonement and Redemption‚ the Cure to Sin Sin will always be part of humanity‚ but the atonement of those sins is what matters in the end. What changes is the severity of the sin and the lengths one has to go in order to atone for those sins and redeem one’s self. In Hosseini’s novel‚ The Kite Runner‚ guilt‚ atonement of sins and redemption all show that no matter what a person’s sin may be‚ he or she will always be able to atone for that

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    The Struggle to Be Normal In today’s society‚ many teenagers struggle in their everyday lives due to the fact that they have different qualities than others. The novel‚ Catcher in the Rye‚ by J.D. Salinger‚ is about a young man named Holden Caulfield‚ who suffers from multiple mental illnesses‚ causing him to be treated different by others. Due to tragedies he has suffered from in the past‚ and all that is going on in is present life‚ Holden can no longer cope and runs away to New York. Christopher

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