Maulik Patel English 180 Prof: C. Kashuba Date: December 10‚ 2012 The multi-genre research project enabled me to explore a topic in which I was interested and it allowed me to produce various genre pieces‚ a portfolio‚ and pursuit on my topic. Upon reading different novels through the semester‚ I found various themes interesting to me‚ but “struggle” and “freedom” were most appealing to me. The work of literature that I used for the project was A Thousand Splendid Suns. I chose struggle because
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Rashmi Bansal’s book‚ I have a Dream‚ is a collection of stories of 20 idealists who using their creative‚ innovative and entrepreneurial skills decided to use these skills to bring a change and dedicated their lives for the greater good of the society. The entrepreneurs in this book‚ instead of developing business models for profits‚ decided to use it as tools for the betterment of society. Like any other Rashmi’s books‚ this book too has been divided into three categories: The Rainmakers‚ The Change
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In the novel‚ The Kite Runner‚ the author Khaled Hosseini depicts guilt and perseverance as the motivation for an individual to seek redemption and attain the satisfaction of self-fulfillment. Hosseini characterizes Baba as a wealthy‚ well-respected businessman who shows skepticism towards religious fundamentalism and follows his own moral code. Although‚ being rebellious to ones religion is looked down by society‚ Baba is still well respected because he acts with self-assurance and audacity.
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would ask each particular question‚ and connect the question to a specific event (quote with page #) in the book. If I were to ask questions to the author and characters‚ they would be about their experiences. The one question I would ask Khaled Hosseini is‚ All the characters in this book were granted poetic justice‚ but why not Mariam? Mariam did nothing monstrous to deserve execution; her act of killing Rasheed was done in self-defense and the defense of Laila. Nonetheless‚ she suffered the
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Freed 1 AP English 12 2 December 2014 A Father’s Love A bond so cherished and seeked after‚ may not always be one of love‚ but one filled with pain and longing. A close examination of the relationship between Baba and his son‚ Amir from Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner‚ and Willy and his son‚ Biff from Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman tells us a similar story about the tough relationship between father and son. Both authors prove that fathers tend to be hard on their sons and push them to meet their
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Runner 2. Author: Khaled Hosseini 3. Time period: The Kite Runner took place from the 1975 to 2001. It is told in retrospect by the main character Amir. He tells the story of his childhood up to his current age. The book starts out with his life as a twelve year old in Afghanistan‚ living through the Russian communists’ takeover. 4. Genre: The genre is historical fiction. 5. Another famous work from the same time period is a Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. 6. The dominant
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Journal One Khaled Hosseini marvelously captivated me with the opening pages of his international bestseller The Kite Runner. The mystery of what occurred on the “frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975” and the first person narration creates an enticing first chapter. By writing about the past and the present simultaneously‚ I was instantly included in the thoughts of the narrator. Based on his description of the past‚ I sense that Amir is still haunted by events from his childhood. The
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a novel with a personal experience from the author of what people in Afghanistan had to go through to live a normal everyday life. The main focus of the story is on the two boys named Amir and Hassan who are both Afghan. To the Afghan society‚ Hassan is in a lower class than Amir and therefore Hassan is Amir’s servant. Amir is a Sunni Muslim and Hassan is a Shi’a Muslim. There is a major religious and ethnic difference between the two. Although their relationship
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The Kite Runner: Interactions with the United States-Middle Eastern Conflict The turmoil of the Middle East today is largely shaped by the perspectives of outsiders around the world. The Kite Runner‚ a historical fiction piece by Khaled Hosseini‚ contributes significantly to these perceptions. In the novel‚ the author uses the United States-Middle Eastern conflict as a foundation for many of the story’s central elements‚ which in turn have impressed a profound effect on the development of this situation
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sun Translating a book into a movie can be a very elusive task for many reasons. This is due to the fact that a book has many key points in it and compressing them all into a certain time frame can be very challenging. Mark Forster’s adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s novel the Kite Runner is a weak portrayal of what the author had originally wrote. The movie consisted of some bad casting choices. It also consisted of some significant and harmful cuts to the novel. Although the director’s intention
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