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    Khaled Hosseini shows through The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns that whatever happens there is always a second chance that fate gives you to make up for what you have done in the past. Hosseini shows that when family secrets are revealed it will lead to abashment‚ and results in suffering‚ humiliation‚ and pain. In order not to lose hope you have to fight‚ or forgive. This hopeful message of Khaled Hosseini in The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns is that although family secrets lead

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    The novel A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ written by Khaled Hosseini‚ shows how war can change people‚ and how it brings out the worst in them. Characters in this novel have their personalities and their views of life changed by the war that tears through their country. As the war changes the characters‚ they come into conflict with each other‚ with themselves‚ and with society. The settling also plays a big part in the theme‚ as it sets the scene and allows all these changes to occur. The author of A

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    point a person in that direction. Gerry is the protagonist in the film World War Z‚ who plays the role of an U.N. officer in process of becoming a hero. Outlining some of Joseph Campbell’s stages of the mythic hero’s journey in his book Hero with a thousand faces‚ clearly defines Gerry as a hero. For Instance‚ Campbell’s beginning stage of the hero´s journey is defined as the ¨call to adventure.¨ He states‚ ¨A blunder-apparently the merest chance-reveals an unsuspected world‚ and the individual is

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    In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ Khaled Hosseini details the misfortune of an Afghan woman‚ Mariam. Mariam’s endurance of oppression and injustice leads her to guide others to freedom‚ hope‚ and safety. Mariam was born into a broken home and labeled a bastard. Jalil‚ her father‚ never truly accepts her into his life and only pretends to care for her. Her childhood is filled with disappointment‚ but she continues to stay hopeful and cheerful. When her mother commits suicide‚ Mariam experiences

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    of women died because they did not want an infant and they had to carry out the medical process of abortion by themselves. Fortunately in 1982‚ abortion was made legal and in this way thousands of women could prevent a horrible death by having operations rather than unskilled procedures. Abortion can save thousands of lives of women and thus‚ should remain legal in Spain. Imagine for a moment that you were in a situation where a choice had to be made. On one side you have the physical life of

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    The tremendous downfall of women’s rights causes two women to face a substantial amount of obstacles to view and change the economy of their country. These two women‚ Mariam and Laila‚ in A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini‚ form a bond equivalent to a mother /daughter relationship to gain strength to fight hopeless odds. With Afghanistan having little to no central government it became mostly under Taliban rule. Nonetheless‚ having strict rules throughout the country lead to women not being

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    of you who have finished the Harry Potter series will see how Rawlings used this pattern in writing her novel. Especially consider the last phase here. http://orias.berkeley.edu/hero/JourneyStages.pdf Joseph Campbell’s Mono myth (Hero With A Thousand Faces) The standard path of the mythological adventure of the hero is a magnification of the formula represented in the rites of passage: separation--initiation--return: which might be named the nuclear unit of the mono myth. Stages of the hero’s

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    World’s Biggest Trees Are Dying Many of the world’s oldest trees‚ that are 100-300 years old‚ are dying. This is a trend happening worldwide. It’s happening in forests‚ savannahs‚ woods‚ mountains‚ cities‚ etc. The cause is human domination. We’ve been killing off these trees with pollution‚ deforestation‚ and other causes. This could really affect the world because other plants and animals depend on these trees for life‚ whether it be for food‚ shelter‚ or other needs. Large‚ old trees provide shelter

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    Bhagavad Gita‚ Analects‚ One Thousand and One Nights all have a theme that encases the idea of Dharma. Dharma is the ethical duty and purpose of why someone does something. Bhagavad Gita shows this theme through the idea Krishna is called to be this warrior in the war that has put family against family. In the Analects‚ many are written with the theme of Dharma. For instance‚ in the Analects that states “He who by revising the old knows the new‚ is fit to be a teacher”. This person is called to a

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    utilizes trees as one of the motifs which plays a significant role in illustrating a few different key points. Trees could represent the renewal of the major characters (Heathcliff‚ Cathy‚ Catherine‚ Haerton‚ and Linton)‚ the changing seasons‚ and how it effects it’s surrounding force of nature‚ the destructive yet love filled emotions of characters‚ obstacles faced such as rocks and roots‚ and lastly the sweet fruits grown on trees connected to the changing seasons and obstacles faced. Trees in nature

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